[NEEDS UPDATING] Home Automation Dashboard (HAD)

Thanks @bmmiller. Good to know.

I’m super curious what your battery life is like. I’m trying to decide if I want to just deal with having to charge whichever tablet once a week? Or try and run power to it.

So I get page cannot be displayed. No errors prior, install seemed to go much better.

Any ideas why I can’t see my app in the browser?

This might be a noob question but what’s the best way to start over? How would I clear out the directory and start over from step 1?

Whenever I try it says that I can’t “git clone” because of "fatal: destination path ‘hadashboard’ already exists and is not an empty directory"
Thanks!

That’s saved locally. If you’re on windows…c:\users\username\hadashboard

Just delete that folder, and delete your app on heroku. That should take care of all of it

I was having the same issue where “Git remote heroku added” wasn’t showing up after I ran the “heroku create” command. I tried “git config --global push.default simple”, but when I try to run that nothing happens.

Pauls-MacBook-Pro:hadashboard Paul$ git config --global push.default simple
Pauls-MacBook-Pro:hadashboard Paul$

What am I missing?

@melianguidry, you can manually add the Heroku remote like this:

$ git remote add heroku git@heroku.com:your-app-name.git

Make sure to replace your-app-name.

If that doesn’t work, you may have opted out of creating a public key when you logged into Heroku (heroku login). You can fix that by retroactively setting a key. Here are some detailed instructions on how to set a new key.

@florianz, tried this again 3 more times and I’m still getting webpage not available. I am using Windows 8.
@bmmiller, did you download the heroku toolbelt and use Git Bash? I’m doing something wrong, but I can’t figure out what it is and it’s driving me nuts :frowning:

The webpage shows " http://your-app-name.herokuapps.com/auth/notset

@liemydude In a private message, can you send me the output of running heroku config?

It did work at first. Not sure what happened, but I deleted everything on my local drive, SmartThings App and Heroku, started over and it went through like a breeze. Now I just have to get my widgets in there.

Thanks for your help.

@liemydude, not sure if this is related, but when I typed in the URL, it didn’t work at first. I logged in to Heroku and clicked on the app settings and there was a link to the app in there. I clicked that link and everything worked.

@florianz Have you tried this at all? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.procoit.kioskbrowser

It doesn’t require the Immsersive Mode and there is no address bar to consider. It has a bunch of extra features built in that a standard browser wouldn’t have.

I haven’t gotten the wake up with Motion Detector/Tasker/Secure Settings working yet to test with it, and I don’t leave it up long enough to test the server side events staying active though.

forgive me if this is an obvious question - newbie here - but this is gorgeous and looks amazing… why not make this as an app so that its easily useable? I know NOTHING about programming… so all of the instructions are beyond me.

Would love a master controller app I can use for my tablet as a home controller… What’s the best one right now for smartthings?

Tnx!

It’s a little bit beyond the capability of a SmartApp right now, but yes, it’d be great if possible. It’d likely require a lot of work with SmartThings directly.

is this the best option out there? is there anything simpler to work with? Like I said, I know zero about programming, so anything that requires that is going to be a big Fail for me.

I haven’t. Let me know how it works!

Eventually, I would like to offer this as a service, which you can just sign up to and edit your dashboard online. Like @bmmiller said, though, that’s a lot of work and it may take a while to get there. In the meantime this is the only way to install one for yourself… Sorry.

This is brand spanking new right now and done primarily by an individual developer on his own time, for himself, which he’s so kindly shared with us. I just thought I’d point that out if that wasn’t immediately obvious.

Another dashboard that another individual coincidentally just released exists here:

It’s a significantly easier install, and is just a SmartApp. Each has their positives and negatives, but a big positive for that one is the ease of installation.

The wonderful thing about an open platform and such a great community is more features and cool stuff like this, unfortunately sometimes not everyone is able to participate because of limitations like their skill level.

The best part is ST monitors this community and can see what users are excited about. I promise you ST is watching the progress of this App/Feature and will either work with the developer to make it more user friendly or at the very least use it to mold their own option.

What @florianz has accomplished is brilliant, as @bmmiller said others have released similar functions via other methods. Each has their benefits and drawbacks.

@jterpslaw don’t be afraid to ask questions, I’ve already seen improvements to this code and the instructions based on community feedback and questions.

My last note is if you’re having problems today, try again in a few days. I’m a amateur php developer and I too have had some struggles with this Dashboard, but as I said before in my opinion this is one of the best community developments yet.

@florianz, Do you have your Nexus 7 just running off of battery? If so, what’s your battery life like assuming you have almost nothing installed and are you using the 1st or 2nd generation tablet?

@mattjfrank I actually havent done anything yet. I am thinking of getting the SmartThings setup for my home maybe paired with an alarm system. I do heavy research before I spend that kind of money though and I know this whole thing is in its infancy. So I wanted to see what’s out there and how it would impact me before I spent the countless hours that I know it will take setting this up.

Thanks @bmmiller - what’s a “SmartApp”? This one looks halfway decent although I like @florianz’s visual appearance more as it’s far more attractive!