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?

  • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Great question, and there’s sone good ideas here …

    I don’t yet do a dashboard but have one of the Trmnl e-ink screens on order:

    • I have turn off all lights as a voice command
    • my thermostat displays today’s weather
    • I’m hoping to display a family calendar- we use an iCloud family calendar in all of our phones and this device has at least one plugin that can do this. My biggest question is whether it can do multiple calendars
    • or I might do an HA Dashboard - perhaps air quality trends, or temperature/humidity trends

    I’d also like to have one or two doorbell displays, but obvious not an e-ink screen