GUI interface

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At this point the only GUI is the Pimatic-Mobile interface.

It is a nice interface, but i am thinking of getting an old android tablet fixed to the wall as home controller.

Then the interface isn’t really nice to be always on

At this point the only possibility i see to develop an new interface is to do the same as the mobile-frontend.
But this has a lot of overhead, like the settings ect.

i would like to request a way to completely style/code 1 Page.

So that i can use the mobile-frontend default, but my tablet will be using a different tab that is optimized for my tablet.

i think there are 2 solutions for this:

Make it possible to create (through a plugin) a tab, and then completely style and code it.

Down side is that this means that you still have the independent plugins with their own gui layer.

Make it possible to easly overwrite an gui from a plugin, Like a button or the weather app.
That way someone can recreate the gui, but not touch the plugin it self. (so not break anything )

This way you keep it dynamic, and people can start creating multiple GUI’s for their plugin. (mobile, tablet ect.)

Let me know what you guys think!

take a look at freeboard:
https://github.com/pimatic/pimatic/issues/381

https://github.com/Freeboard/freeboard
https://freeboard.io/
http://freeboard.github.io/freeboard/

That looks promising!

i will check it out!

ok… i was playing a little bit with freeboard… displaying of text/gauge/sparklines and indicator lights work with pimatic out of the box…
but freeboard seems to be only usable to display things… not to manage things… for example: it seems to be not possible to switch a light… just to display the state…

if you want to play around… just download and extract the zip at the github site to a subfolder of /pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-mobile-frontend/public/
for example “fboard”

then open freeboard by pointing your browser to this folder… for example: http://yourpimaticip:port/fboard

click on “add” at the right site… select “json” type. name it whatever you want… get the url like discribed in pimatic api… for example you have a variable for temperature called “remote-temp” then add this url: http://yourpimaticip:port/api/variables/remote-temp
choos refreshrate… click save
finished adding device

add the left site click “add pane”… in the new pane select the + sign to add a new widget… select (for example) gauge… add a title like you want… click on “+ DATASOURCE”. choose your fresh added device… select variable… select value… put your favourite unit in… like “°C”…
set the temprange to show… for example in a room choose between 15 and 30 degree… and click save

that´s all…

do the same with other sources… and other widgets.

i think it should be possible to add a widget that is able to switch values on pimatic… but im not a coder…

i will look into it,

i wasn’t to happy with the fact that you needed to pay for a private board, but if i can host it locally that would solve it.

if this works out well i will write a tutorial about the total!

I just turned on “day dream” and show random photo’s, soon as i tick the screen I get pimatic.