Since in the introduction of Dashboard Overlays, I’ve converted much of dashboards. One thing I’ve thought of would be the ability to globally set an auto-close for the overlays. This is perticularylly useful for family members who simply walk away after opening/using one and not manually closing it.
I mentioned something similar to this while it was in beta.
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Would love this feature.
Agreed. This feature would also allow custom picker functionality to behave like the native mode picker. Except anything could be picked, not just mode.
I like this idea. Maybe add it to the Feature Requests page?
Auto-close and maybe “Auto-open” as well! My favourite use case would be: Outdoor camera detects motion → Open Camera dashboard overlay to show camera screen → no more motion detected (or some timer maybe) → close camera dashboard.
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Agreed. I was going to try to handle this with a timer if possible, but having the native support would be better.
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I think auto close after a certain amount of time would be great, I have already voted toward that. What I would find useful is also for the overlay to close once a button is pushed on the screen or something is selected. This would allow you to display a dashboard overlay with an action request for something, selecting the action, then closing and going. back to the original dashboard.
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I decided to get rid of most of my Dashboard overlays for now due to family not closing them. If there’s a change I would put them back.