Domoticz

I am still having great fun with Domoticz. Every time fine tuning the system, looking on the forum how other members uses the system. And the will to expand devices to automate.

Lots of friends and family are blown away what this program and a simple rasp can do.

I know this to much to ask. And guess it would take a lot of work. But just my 2 cents...

What I would like is to have a page where you can group switches with a separate icon(for instance living room) . Press the icon and a page will open with switches.
The pull down menu works... But this would be more convinient.

Everybody has it own taste for a interface.
With lots of devices the web gui is not workable, deffinitely not on mobile.
I like a floorplan a lot. On one single screen is see the status of the 48 most important devices, without scrolling, just a single view.
Other less important devices are on a second page and everything related to the heating also on a separate page.
It is even not that hard to create a own interface for it. If you know some php you can look at my github for hints.

Besides that I'm convinced it's just not possible to implement and maintain tens of different interfaces by the developers. Let them concentrate on stability, speed and extensions.

Egregius wrote:Everybody has it own taste for a interface.
With lots of devices the web gui is not workable, deffinitely not on mobile.
I like a floorplan a lot. On one single screen is see the status of the 48 most important devices, without scrolling, just a single view.
Other less important devices are on a second page and everything related to the heating also on a separate page.
It is even not that hard to create a own interface for it. If you know some php you can look at my github for hints.

Besides that I'm convinced it's just not possible to implement and maintain tens of different interfaces by the developers. Let them concentrate on stability, speed and extensions.

Yes i agree with you on focusing on development and stability.

Unfortunately i am not familiar with php or any programming, coding etc. All I have is looking at tutorials, examples and stealing scripts... .

When i am converted to Pi3 with ssd. I will use your lua2pass system. That's allready a challenge for me to convert the Lua scripts i have.
People like you make this a great community.

I think my floorplan is easier to set-up as all functions are ready to use.
Placing a switch on the floorplan is as simple as:
Schakelaar('hall','Light'); (sorry for the Dutch name 'Schakelaar', means switch in English but that's a predefined php function).
and giving it a place and size in css:
.hall{top:410px;left:252px;}#hall{height:50px;width:auto;}

The position in css is new and gives much more possibilities between different platforms. Thanks to that it's possible to have a nice fullscreen view no mather wich device is used in portrait or in landscape

As this topic goes over frontpage gui I'm not gonna talk about lua pass2php, there is a topic for that.

Egregius wrote:I think my floorplan is easier to set-up as all functions are ready to use.
Placing a switch on the floorplan is as simple as:
Schakelaar('hall','Light'); (sorry for the Dutch name 'Schakelaar', means switch in English but that's a predefined php function).
and giving it a place and size in css:
.hall{top:410px;left:252px;}#hall{height:50px;width:auto;}

The position in css is new and gives much more possibilities between different platforms. Thanks to that it's possible to have a nice fullscreen view no mather wich device is used in portrait or in landscape

As this topic goes over frontpage gui I'm not gonna talk about lua pass2php, there is a topic for that.

OK thanks... Another item on my todo's list.
I will look into it.

I use the ImperiHome application in combination with Domoticz. That is way more straight forward then working with the frontpage. You can use a composite widget and combine switches for example. I would advise you to take a look.

http://www.domoticz.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6882

P.s. I can also advise you to test voice commands: http://www.domoticz.com/forum/viewtopic ... 37&t=14947

Here some screenshots from my Android wall tablet, I'm still tweaking some now and then.

What if you want to view 48 devices at once?

Egregius wrote:What if you want to view 48 devices at once?

What I can find is a page with 30 , but as mentioned you can include multiple devices (Composite) in a single box. For example I have all door sensors in a single widget and when selected you see all 3 of them. When 1 is open the widget will turn red instead of green.

You don't have to convince me, I'm not going away from my floorplan