# \[RELEASE\] HousePanel Dashboard for SmartThings and Hubitat

**URL:** <https://community.smartthings.com/t/release-housepanel-dashboard-for-smartthings-and-hubitat/108342>\
**Category:** Community Created SmartApps\
**Tags:** project\_dashboard\
**Created:** [December 2, 2017, 11:35pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/release-housepanel-dashboard-for-smartthings-and-hubitat/108342 "2017-12-02T23:35:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![kewashi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/smartthings/user_avatar/community.smartthings.com/kewashi/32/77017_2.png) [@kewashi](https://community.smartthings.com/u/kewashi)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 1:32pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/release-housepanel-dashboard-for-smartthings-and-hubitat/108342/4 "2017-12-03T13:32:20Z")

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> [@kewashi](#):
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> You can also use it as a silent web service for controlling or querying your smart home. I will document how soon.

I realize that I already documented this feature in the Alpha release thread. The information posted there is still valid. Take a look.

> [@Announcing HousePanel Control Panel \[Alpha\]](https://community.smartthings.com/t/announcing-housepanel-control-panel-alpha/91639/109):
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> Hi good people… long time no post… well I’m super excited to share with you all the following update to HousePanel. With the latest version you can now use HousePanel as a generic EndPoint to call from either Python or EventGhost. Both work equally well but Python is more flexible of course. To use first update your code from the HousePanel main repository. Be sure to get both the front end housepanel.php file and the back end HousePanel.groovy file. They are in separate GIT repositories. As a reminder, the front end is here: and the back end is here: To use HousePanel as an EndPoint start by launching your browser and invoking: [http://yoururl/housepanel.php?useajax=showid](http://yoururl/housepanel.php?useajax=showid) Where yoururl should be replace by where you installed the housepanel.php web site. This will retrieve a …

Pretty cool eh?

For this to work as described above, you will need to first authenticate your PC or Mac by loading HousePanel into a browser. This will save the cookie in that browser so the above calls will work. If you want to skip that step or use the endpoint feature from Ghostscript which has its own internal browser/curl mechanism, you will need to save your authentication information in your clientinfo.php file. The authentication info is displayed when you make the call to housepanel with ?useajax=showid variable.

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