Great work! This is awesome! I just downloaded and have been playing around for a bit and had some questions and some suggestions if you’re open to them.
Questions
- Is there a way to order the rooms?
- The top row looks like all (or many) automation. Is there a way to control what goes up here?
- Is there a way to associate a media player with a room? For example, when I swipe to Office, it shows the Office media player?
- Is there a way to control which media players can be joined?
Some suggestions and thoughts for you. But please take these with a grain of salt. I have a very large and opinionated hassio configuration and may not be the right user for this app.
I don’t love how this app controls my Hassio setup. I started hiding a few devices and changing names but then realized it was changing them in HA. For some reason, I thought this had a local sqlite db that managed all the customizations. Perhaps I’m an outlier here, and in that case, ignore me completely, but I’d prefer to use this app as a customized interface to my existing HA versus a way of managing my setup.
I’d love to see the “room” concept expanded. For example, I’d love to click on “Kitchen” and have it open up a new screen with lights, switches, temperature, media player, sensors like door/window/blinds, motion, and/or occupancy.
The security tab (the second tab) probably shouldn’t include climate-related sensors. It feels a little strange to me. This could be because I have a lot of climate related sensors. For example, my Tempest adds like 20 sensors alone. Each room has a temperature sensor and most rooms have a door sensor, which typically includes a (somewhat inaccurate) temperature sensor. I think door, window, security-related items could be useful here (e.g. motion, cameras).
Building on my previous comment, I’d love to see a “Climate” tab or page that I could control and list all of the temperature (and maybe humidity) sensors that I care to see.
Sidenote, the thermostat UI is beautiful, but the UX isn’t super intuitive to me. It could be that I just click around like an ape, but I clicked on the round thermostat area and it jacked up the heat to 82. I expected the perimeter to modify the temperature, but didn’t think that pressing anywhere inside the circle also changed it. But, this could be because I’m not a smart man, so please keep that in mind. Oh and maybe add presets, e.g. “eco” for Nest.
I’d love to be able to see the state of things. For example, I heavily use booleans to manage things like “Guest Mode”, “Quiet Mode”, “Speech Notifications”, “Lighting Automations”, and others. I’d love to be able to add these to the top where the automation quick links are so I can see which are active and then easily toggle.
I apologize if this is a lot of feedback! Honestly, I think the app is beautiful and really fast. I’d love to see this project expand and happy to help anyway I can.