I’ve built an information dashboard that I would like to share with my neighbors as a view only without a login.
We have a community water well that serves 8 houses and I do the maintenance on it. With the advent of Z-wave 800 Long Range, I can now reach the well house location approx 550’ away from my house, so the time is right to add this to HA.
I’ve added some instrumentation to send analog sensor outputs, so that I can remotely view deep well pump running status, holding tank level, system pressure, etc. All this is displayed on a dashboard dedicated to the well system. I would like to share this dashboard as a view only webpage that is publicly available without a login to any of the neighbors that care to see this info.
What is the best/easiest way to achieve this?
Hi, welcome to the forum!
You want to make this publicly (over the internet) available?
Yes, to anyone who has the link. I really can’t see any reason why anyone else would care about the system data of a random well in some unknown rural neighborhood, so I don’t think privacy is an issue. And there is no ability to control any pumps, etc.
I know scammers can be creative, but I don’t think there is anything here to see.
Interestingly Balloob just shared this: Export cards to png/jpeg - #16 by balloob
Interesting but not what I’m looking for. I need live data. I’m not looking to show off what I’ve done, but to provide info for the other water users for several reasons. One is that ,maybe, just maybe some of them may look at it during times of hot weather and heavy usage and decide to voluntarily curtail their usage.
But the other is that I have volunteered for these maintenance duties due to my skill set and while it is now very reliable, I’m not always available and I do plan to be even less available in the future, so someone else will have to step up and do their part. Information is key to being proactive rather than reactive.
And HA provides that nicely. I just gotta feed it in a friendly manner to the unwashed masses.
So this is why I don’t want simple screenshots or the requirement of a log in
Every time the URL is loaded it takes a snapshot of the current dashboard. How much more live do you need?
This is pretty much the only way you are going to be able to share something that does not give full access to your HA instance.
The only other way I can think of would be writing your own web page that interfaces to the HA API.