One thing I like to see is a central place to see battery levels for all battery devices on the hub. I know there are many way to do it but wouldn’t it be nice that it’s just built in?
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i haven’t read this (now rather long) list of wants, so at the risk of repeating someone who got this in first:
- full embedded RBAC (role-based access control), primarily to provide the option of hidden/read-only/read-write to any section of the interface.
- LAN access for remote mgt connections
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I can see Dyson on that, what does that cover? I have a robot and wanted to do things like turn on lights in the rooms it’s going to do. Currently there GH integration is a bit basic
Bit of a niche request (perhaps), but…
- Grouping tiles together for ease of moving them around the screen, but this may also open up options for how they are presented on screen or allow for settings across a group of tiles
- The ability to include details from multiple devices / sources on the one tile
I’m playing around with overlaying and sitting tiles alongside other in HE, which is fine, would be nice if some elements of what I am trying to do were built in. May post sometime soon on the HE forum with some examples. I really need to get back to looking at Smartly, perhaps it can do some of this already…?
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So far that particular integration is still rather basic, something which can trigger based on room would need further work.
Even a trigger just that it’s doing something would be better than nothing which is what currently is in place. What room it’s going in can be set by conditions.
Being able to send it to a area that it knows about though, that would be great because their app is a bit crap, you can only schedule one event per day.
This is an example of what I was talking about in my last post, re grouping tiles and presenting details from multiple devices.
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Ability to add custom fields to a device and/or a notes field. Tons of use cases, but one example would be for battery powered devices where you could create a “Battery Type”, “Battery Quantity”, and “Battery Last Replaced Date”. Bonus points for different formatting types for the fields such as date, time, basic text, etc.
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Inventory management system that can generate a serial code to write on your device or a QR code to print off and put on your device.
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Some sort of transfer system between two parties when selling the home, transferring maintainers, etc.
I see it is as three-pronged problem:
- The recipient having an invested interest in the outcome of the automation and therefore motivation to maintain it (sort of out of your control but indirectly influenced by the automation system)
- Good UI/UX that is easily understandable for more than just the initial programmer. Part of this is documentation whether that is built in via notes or “self-documentation” with the likes of Node-RED. (Definitely within your control and from what I have seen is already the goal)
- Built in transfer systems for a seamless hand-off between two parties (Within your control but likely a “stretch-goal” for lack of a better term, maybe you guys didn’t even think of this, but I think that is unlikely)
A partial solution for this would be strong ties between CORE’s main UI and this community not only for discovery reasons, i.e. finding new projects or new ways to solve your problem, but also for troubleshooting reasons, especially if logs and/or screenshots can be easily transferred from the main UI to the community. Could even do some sort of fancy AI to detect what you are trying to do and suggest related topics in the community 
. Also, when a new user takes over they may see these links and be likely to join the community.
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