PC Desktop status indicator?

[Bill V]

I did a bunch of searching to see if something like what I want exists, either in a simple software or hardware format and came up dry.

What I would ideally like is a small desktop window that would allow me to monitor the status of selected devices that does not require loading the Admin panel.

Alternatively a small device the size of one of the Insteon remotes that would have 6-8 bi-color LEDs to indicate the ON/OFF status of a device.

Bill  Tempe, AZ

[asbril]

Have you considered the new UDI Mobile App on your phone, or Home Assistant, which allows you observe and control your devices in your browser ?

[Bill V]

No I have not as I am uninterested in monitoring these items on a mobile device.  I have the app, but this is not what I want to use.

Thanks for the reply though.

Bill  Tempe AZ

[Mecheng70]

Probably not, unless you make something.  Could use an Arduino to query certain devices to determine status then update the LEDs?  Then get a 3d printer and make the box/container what ever size you need. 

 

 

 

[MrBill]

Nobody seems to do it, but you can build custom dashboards.  Search the wiki for HAD. (Home Automation Dashboard). 

[bpwwer]

I created something like what you want but it is designed to run full screen in a browser and provides status of mostly node server based devices.  But the technique would also work for a small browser window and normal switch/lighting devices as well.

I have a web page served from my local web server that makes a websocket connection with the ISY. It monitors that connection for specific events and updates the appropriate elements on the web page with the new values.

I believe there is an example of this in the wiki (or maybe the forum) and the ISY itself can host the web page (I think you need the network module).

It would also be easy to use this technique to create a desktop app with something like C# in .net (or whatever your language of choice is). The code to do this is pretty simple.

WS = open websocket connection to ISY

on WS event:
    # get event details (event type, device, action)
    if event type is something we care about:
    	if device is one we want to monitor:
        	display new action value for event
    

You probably won't find a pre-existing solution because to do something like in a generic manner means you're going to end up re-writing the admin console / dashboard which is a lot more complicated.  Plus, what you want to display and how is probably very specific to your environment.  I could give you my javascript/web page, but by the time you modified it for what you wanted, you'd probably have changed almost every line.  If you're curious, I did already post screen shot and code at 

 

[asbril]

1 hour ago, Bill V said:

No I have not as I am uninterested in monitoring these items on a mobile device.  I have the app, but this is not what I want to use.

Thanks for the reply though.

Bill  Tempe AZ

Home Assistant works on your computer (and on your phone) but it requires a RPi. Because I get  error messages in the AC, I use HA to check status and switch ON/OFF my devices. I also believe that UDI will come up with further innovations to make control more user friendly.