As per the title, I got the updated App / Dashboard today on my iPhone and I’m not impressed:
Pros:
It looks nice
Cons:
It ignores existing favorites and requires a total re-config
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Moving icons around is beyond fiddly and highly error-prone
Things like Garage doors now show On/Off instead of Open/Close like they used to.
Moving between the Dashboard and the rest of the app is now visually quite jarring
There is still no visual indication (eg spinning animation) that the App is syncing device states with the controller
Seriously Guy’s, first we had the great 7.30 FW Catastrorfcuk, now this!! The new App and dashboard are not ready for prime time, it takes away functionality and breaks things that were working just fine.
Seriously, if HomeSeer does a good job with HS4, you guy’s are going to lose a lot of customers unless things improve dramatically in the next few months.
Ok, so I figured out how to rearrange the Dashboard (thanks for the video Vera) and removed that bit from my List. Im still not thrilled about having to waste 20 mins reconfiguring it after the hours I’ve wasted in the past couple weeks battling the 7.30 FW Charlie Foxtrot.
There are a number of things that still need to be improved:
Sort each pane from Left to Right, Top to bottom - this will make sorting much more intuitive, especially in the list view when adding/removing devices
Collapse widgets to a single row that have 3 or fewer tiles in them - otherwise you get a lot of wasted space as you see below.
Don’t call the default Widget “Devices”, call it “Room” or something generic so it’s obvious you can add more and sort them.
make deleting devices etc from the list view easier when you have 40 devices to clear the first time you configure the dashboard it’s painful. You should only need to tap the red button, no need to tap the red button and a confirmation - its not like we are deleting devices from the controller.
I still use VeraMate, but the new Dashboard is MUCH better than the old. I can almost emulate VeraMate. I echo those wanting to see the temperature of a thermostat.
VeraMate went so far as to use the icon to tell you which mode is was in - blue for cooling mode and red for heating mode. The temperature number was also telling. A red background meant the blower was running, white meant it was idle, black means it is off.
Veramate was awesome, and still is. I use it everyday. I think the new Vera app though is going in the right direction. Hope they fix the Siri shortcuts limit soon!
Lots of us only found Reactor recently, and there is a school of thought that as an HA product Vera should be able to do it out of the box…
My scene count is dropping rapidly. Just hope my heating comes on tomorrow morning
Also, just realised a whole load of other scenes can go as well, but will need to be replaced with virtual switches so maybe not that much of a benefit
I discovered that a bunch of scenes long deleted off my VPlus are available to select in the scenes list of the new dashboard!! Obviously, they’re stuck somewhere on the machine or in Vera’s cloud. They’re not selectable in the old UI scene list, so some sort of issue here.
I use reactor, at last count I had over 30 reactor logic sensors.
I mainly use the app to check on things. Most of our house is controlled by Alexa or the physical wall switches which are mostly momentary switches with Aeotec zwave modules begins them.
