splnut
(Chad)
June 10, 2016, 7:09pm
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I have a tablet that will be mounted to the wall to control Home Assistant. While the default interface works, I like the look that Dashing provides more. I see where someone modified it work with OpenHAB and another project where someone was trying to migrate it over to work with Home Assistant, but never finished (https://github.com/dels78/homeassistant-dashboard ).
Before I dive into it, is there anyone else already doing this?
aimc
(Andrew Cockburn)
June 10, 2016, 8:44pm
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I have a working setup yes, but currently on vacation. I’ll be happy to show you what I did when I get back.
I posted a preview a little while ago - since then I have it pretty much complete for my purposes and it is working very well:
I’m working on a wall mounted tablet based UI and using the REST API for the integration. Its working really well so far but I can’t seem to figure out how to set the dim level of a dimmable bulb or switch. I had expected to find a service called light/set_level or something similar but it seems to be conspicuously absent. I also tried passing the brightness level to switch/turn_on but got an error in the log.
Can anyone tell me what I am missing here?
If anyone is interested, my project is a …
Only reason I haven’t posted on it yet is that I will need to write some lengthy docs for it …
Wow! I would love to contribute to this!
aimc
(Andrew Cockburn)
June 11, 2016, 12:09am
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I would appreciate a couple of volunteers to struggle through the requirements for Python and ruby to get this installed so I can properly document, then I’ll happily document the rest
I volunteer. Mind sharing your code?
aimc
(Andrew Cockburn)
June 13, 2016, 1:29pm
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Great
Give me some time to get back home and do some tidy up and some basic docs, and I’ll throw it up on GitHub.
KRiS
June 14, 2016, 10:37am
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I would like to test this out as well.
It would fit beautifully on the wall.
aimc
(Andrew Cockburn)
June 19, 2016, 4:36pm
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OK, I just put up details in the My Projects section:
I really love the stock HA UI for hand held devices both on tablets and phones, but as my eyes grow dim with age, I find it to be hard to get useful information from across a room, and also for some reason trying to hit the small links for scenes and scripts with my palsied trembling hands is difficult. And there is also the issue of all that bright light hurting my poor eyes at night …
When I was using Smart Things for my automation, there was a community project created by a user called Flori…
Have at it and let me know how badly it breaks