Home Automation Dashboard (HAD)

[625alex (Alex, ActionTiles Control Panel)]

I’m really interested to know how you handle Server Side Events.

I’m building something very similar.

Web Dashboard

Hi, I would like to share the web dashboard that I created. This is a self contained app with no set-up, no back end, no dependencies, no servers to run, no PHP, and no know-how. It really can’t get simpler than that. When the app is installed or updated, a URL will be printed to the log. Paste this URL to a modern browser to view and control your device. You can create multiple instances of the app to create dashboards per room or give temporary remotes to your guests with the devices that they are allowed to control. You don’t have to install the ST mobile app on all devices! Installing this app will give you this interface: [image] Limitations: I didn’t implement two way communication yet. If state of a devices changes, it will not be reflected on the dashboard until it’s ref…

Since Web Sockets are not available in ST, I thought of some very unnecessarily creative ways of sending events to the front end.