So I’ve seen all kinds of dashboards depicting all sorts of informations and functions to control ones home and I was wondering, what things you have depicted on yours which turned out to be really useful esp. for other family members. I would like to keep mine as small and simple as possible. So far I have planned to show the following:

Helpful esp. before leaving the house:

  • turn off all lights
  • activate alarm within n minutes
  • current and upcoming rain and outside temperature conditions
  • List of open windows and doors

Helpful during the day

  • Current and set temperature inside
  • Autonomy of car
  • Remaining time of washing machine
  • State of dishwasher (ready, running, done)
  • State of mailbox (empty, full)

What’s on yours you and others in your household interact often with? Which have you removed?

  • limelight79@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    8 days ago

    For the Echo Show 8 converted to Android and running HA that sits on the counter,

    • Controls for scenes and lights. In general the only one we regularly use is “bedtime” because that varies each day. The other scenes are automatic, but I still have the scene controls because sometimes things get changed.
    • Upcoming games and scores for our sports teams. Games appear up to 48 hours in advance and remain no more than 15 hours after game start (it’s supposed to be 12 hours after the end, but the end is harder to calculate from the data, so I do this instead).
    • Weather radar.
    • Badges with info like outside temperature, average temperature of each floor, and garage temperature.
    • The planned meal for today and tomorrow - tomorrow is in case I need to get something out of the freezer. Today’s dinner disappears after 8pm.

    If you scroll down you can see a weather forecast, but we rarely use that. The radar is nice even though it takes a good bit of space on screen. I might shrink it to see how that works.

    There are also two other menus available. One lets me reset various counters (for example after I’ve cleaned the pet fountain every 30 days), and the other gives access to thermostats. Both of those are rarely used.