Dashboard

How your dashboard works

After signing in you land automatically on your dashboard — the central overview page for your device. Here you can see at a glance how it's doing: current readings, switch positions, and the history of the last few hours.

Overview of the dashboard with several widgets

Everything you see here is split into individual boxes — so-called widgets. Each widget shows exactly one piece of information or function: a chart, a list of switches, a note, and so on. Further down this page, every widget type has its own, more detailed subpage.

Customizing widgets

Every widget has a few small icons in its header that let you customize it:

Header area of a widget with its controls

  • A link icon (🔗) means this widget automatically follows whichever device is selected in the filter bar — nothing to set up.
  • The gear icon opens this widget's settings.
  • The × hides the widget — it isn't deleted afterwards, just hidden.

In the settings you can change the size (from XS to XXL) and move the widget up or down; some widgets also let you add a further, independent copy from here — for instance a second device-status widget for a different device:

A widget's settings with the size picker open

A complete widget then looks something like this:

A status widget with switches for a device

Every change is saved automatically in the background right away — you don't need to confirm anything extra, and nothing gets lost.

Allowing access to your local network

The WiFi IP address in a status widget like this is more than just text: if your device is currently reachable over your local network, the dashboard automatically turns it into a clickable link straight to the device's own web interface.

To check that, some browsers (e.g. Chrome) ask, once, when you open the dashboard, whether the page may access other devices on your local network — a fairly new security feature of the browser itself, not something specific to this app. This prompt always appears in your browser's own language, regardless of which language you're reading the dashboard in:

Popup "Access other devices on your local network"

Click Allow — otherwise the link stays inactive, and you'll see an info icon instead saying the device isn't reachable, even if you're actually on the right network. Under "Remember my decision" you can choose 'permanently' so your browser doesn't ask again on your next visit:

Recommended choice: save as 'permanently' and click Allow

This prompt only appears in browsers that support it, and even there only if you're actually on the same local network as your device — from elsewhere, or from a different network, you won't see it at all.

Adding widgets and managing layouts

The gear menu at the right end of the bar above the widget list holds the dashboard-wide actions:

The gear menu with the widgets you can bring back and the reset option

  • + Widget lists the kinds of widget you have hidden — click one to bring one back.

  • Reset puts the dashboard back to its default layout.

Saving your own layout as a template or default lives in the same gear menu - see the filter bar's own page below for details.

Choosing a device and time range

The filter bar at the top of the dashboard determines which device and which time range are shown in the other widgets - including the auto-refresh interval. The details live on the filter bar's own page below.

Navigation

The sidebar takes you to the other areas of your cloud app:

Sidebar with the app areas

Depending on your account, further areas such as Monitoring, Notifications, Reporting, or Prediction may also be available here. They aren't enabled on every account - more on this in the topic overview.

Every widget in detail

Below, every widget type has its own subpage with all the details: