Hello,

Here's the first alpha release of eisy-ui.

If you are familiar with SSH, you can proceed with a manual install of eisy-ui for testing purposes. For now, I'm expecting just a few installs by technical folks. If you are not familiar with ssh, please wait for the beta release. If you have installed this alpha release, please give this post a "Thanks" and feel free to provide feedback.

Prerequisite

Please run an Upgrade packages from the admin console.

eisy-ui relies on new APIs available only on the latest IoX. The latest PG3x 3.3.19 is also required.

To install eisy-ui

1. Go to the latest post in this thread to find the latest alpha release
2. Install: sudo sudo kg install -f <package name>
3. Start the service: sudo service eisyui restart

Using eisy-ui

1. Launch your browser to: https://eisy.local
2. Login with your portal user and password

eisy-ui features

Favorites page
This allows you to create a dashboard like page to interact with your nodes. Organize them the way you like it. Just display the properties and controls that are relevant to you. Use widgets to create an intuitive interface to manage your lights, color bulbs and thermostats. Group relevant nodes within the same tile.

PG3x integration
You can access PG3x from within eisy-ui. For the most part, it's just the same PG3x served within iframes, except that there is now a single sign-on.

In PG3x you used to have to login with your IoX user and password, and there was a separate portal login that was required. That portal login could be reset using System | Switch Portal Profile. This is no longer the case.

With eisy-ui, you login once to eisy-ui with your portal user profile and can access PG3x. That's it.

Portal connection
IoX used to make the outbound connection to portal. This is no longer the case. When eisy-ui is installed, eisy-ui connects to portal instead of IoX. This change is transparent. This however lays the groundwork for multi-connections to portal which will allow parallel requests from portal to eisy, and thus enhance speed.

Rest API
The IoX rest API can now be accessed on ports 80 and 443. However, this works with your portal credentials instead of IoX user and password. The rest API can also be accessed using a JWT, but that's beyond the scope of this post.

Logging
eisy-ui's log is on the file system as you would expect, but it is also sent to our cloud log server. Eventually there will be a setting to allow/disallow this. But for now, this can't be disabled. This allows us to troubleshoot problems that may arise more easily.

Backward compatibility
Please note that IoX can still be accessed directly on port 8443 and 8080, using IoX user and password.

PG3x can also be accessed directly on port 3000, using IoX user and password, just like before. However, it is not recommended to switch between using PG3x from eisy-ui vs directly on port 3000. If you do so, you may have to use System | Switch portal profile when using PG3x on port 3000.

The only permanent change when eisy-ui is installed is that IoX no longer connects to portal. So if your eisy is offline, make sure the eisyui service is running.
 

FAQ
Can I see the eisy-ui log?

At this time there's no UI to see the logs like PG3x does. To see the logs in real-time:
tail -f /var/eisyui/logs/ui-current.log

What devices are supported?

https://eisy.local/nodes, which is the main page to see your nodes is very similar to what you are used to in the Admin Console, and this supports any nodes.

The Favorites page likewise supports any nodes. There are specialized widgets that allow to make a better UI like switches, sliders, etc. You can create a nice UI for thermostats and color bulbs in particular. There is however no specific widgets for locks. Only the "Generic command" can be used for those.

There is also no supports for scenes or programs yet.

I have a 994/Polisy, can I install eisy-ui?

Unfortunately no. eisy-ui can only run on eisy.

What's next?

In addition to a nicer UI, the goal of eisy-ui is to replace the Admin Console. One of the biggest upcoming feature will be the ability create and manage programs. We will also make enhancements based on the feedback from this alpha release.

Eventually, the Favorites page tiles will support scenes, programs and variables directly. This will allow such things as displaying the status of a node, but control through a scene or program.
 

Here's a few screen shots
 

Edited June 23Jun 23 by bmercier
Renamed thread

For alpha testers, please provide feedback on this post:

 

eisy-ui 0.4.1 changes

1. Updated the DB creation process to use the prisma bin instead of npx
2. Portal proxy connection keep-alive set to 30 seconds.

 

To install eisy-ui 0.4.1

1. Download this package to your eisy: eisyui-0.4.1.pkg
2. Install: sudo pkg install -f eisyui-0.4.1.pkg
3. Start the service: sudo service eisyui restart

eisy-ui 0.4.2 changes

• Fix for insteon nodes
• Fix admin console portal approval
• Allow http access locally (no longer redirects to https)
• Service auto-restart

 

To install eisy-ui 0.4.2

1. Download this package to your eisy: eisyui-0.4.2.pkg
2. Install: sudo pkg install -f eisyui-0.4.2.pkg
3. Start the service: sudo service eisyui restart

eisy-ui 0.4.3 changes

• Fix for status not updating in some cases
• At login, allow email verification using pin if email needs to be verified
• At login, allow adding uuid to account if not already in account
• At login, auto-approve uuid in account (if not approved)
• Fix Portal approval from Admin Console / UDM
• Add tooltip on tile headers
• Fix for some missing profile editors
• Fix admin console XMLParseError
• Fix input of parameters values

To install eisy-ui 0.4.3

1. Download this package to your eisy: eisyui-0.4.3.pkg
2. Install: sudo pkg install -f eisyui-0.4.3.pkg
3. Start the service: sudo service eisyui restart

eisy-ui 0.5.1 changes

• Login with no connectivity
• New Portal Authorization page under Settings
• icon search with synonyms
• Nodes page: Added folders
• Nodes page: Display names in the tree instead of the address
• Dimmers can now send a DOF when turned to 0
• Fix program save in Admin Console
   

To install eisy-ui 0.5.1

1. Download this package to your eisy: eisyui-0.5.1.pkg
2. Install: sudo pkg add -f eisyui-0.5.1.pkg
3. Start the service: sudo service eisyui restart

Edited June 23Jun 23 by bmercier
Removed: Fix for Yolink

eisy-ui 0.5.2 changes

• Nodes page: Folder expansion state is not persisted
• Nodes page column menu (pin/hide/filters). 
• Reorganized sidebar menu
• MQTT communication robustness
• General bug fixes

To install eisy-ui 0.5.2

1. Download this package to your eisy: eisyui-0.5.2.pkg
2. Install: sudo pkg add -f eisyui-0.5.2.pkg
3. Start the service: sudo service eisyui restart

eisy-ui 0.5.3 changes

• Fix some of the rest APIs that were not working (such as saving Network Resources)
• Sidebar - Highlight the current page
• Nodes page - Added node icons
• Many UI enhancements

To install eisy-ui 0.5.3

1. Download this package to your eisy: eisyui-0.5.3.pkg
2. Install: sudo pkg add -f eisyui-0.5.3.pkg
3. Start the service: sudo service eisyui restart

eisy-ui 0.5.4 changes

• Fixed Nodes page folder expansion

To install eisy-ui 0.5.4

1. Download this package to your eisy: eisyui-0.5.4.pkg
2. Install: sudo pkg add -f eisyui-0.5.4.pkg
3. Start the service: sudo service eisyui restart

eisy-ui 0.5.5 changes

• Favorites pages visual enhancements
  • Tiles are more compact
  • Node status displayed to the right with a visual indicator (green/red/blus background)
  • Many other little changes
  • Although there is a conversion that takes place at startup, the tiles height will likely need adjustments.
• Nodes context menu on the Nodes page (right-click on the node)
  • Add to Home page
  • Rename node
  • Delete Node)
• Better handling of authentication errors for Admin Console
• Fixed "Internal server error" when authenticating with invalid creds
• Many bug fixes and code enhancements

To install eisy-ui 0.5.5

1. Download this package to your eisy: eisyui-0.5.5.pkg
2. Install: sudo pkg add -f eisyui-0.5.5.pkg
3. Start the service: sudo service eisyui restart

** Please do not install - New package will be available Tomorrow **

eisy-ui 0.5.6 changes

Fixed a build problem introduced in 0.5.5.

Due to a very subtle typescript compiler configuration issue, eisy-ui 0.5.5 was actually running the 0.5.4 server with the 0.5.5 UI.

 

To install eisy-ui 0.5.6

1. Download this package to your eisy: eisyui-0.5.6.pkg
2. Install: sudo pkg add -f eisyui-0.5.6.pkg
3. Start the service: sudo service eisyui restart

** Please do not install - New package will be available Tomorrow **

eisy-ui 0.5.8 changes

Fixed issues with path resolution for UI files coming from a very subtle typescript compiler configuration issue.

To install eisy-ui 0.5.8

1. Stop the service: sudo service eisyui stop
2. Check if you have any eisyui process running, and if so, kill it. You may have it if you installed 0.5.5.
   1. Run this: ps aux | grep eisyui
   2. Check if you have any process running as eisyui.
   3. If so: 
      • Take note of the process id (pid)
      • Run this: sudo kill <pid>
3. Download this package to your eisy: eisyui-0.5.8.pkg
4. Install: sudo pkg add -f eisyui-0.5.8.pkg
5. Start the service: sudo service eisyui restart