There is a very neat Hubitat Community developed Virtual Keypad App for the Hubitat Dashboard which I am using on a small 4 inch Android tablet inside my front door entrance just running Fully Kiosk with the Hubitat Dashboard used to Arm and Disarm HSM (with different user PIN entry codes).
I also wanted to embed this keypad dashboard into my main Sharptools Dashboard running on a separate Fire HD10 located centrally in the house.
I created a custom URL tile using the Hubitat Dashboard Direct links, but the local link wont work, only the cloud link works but is way too slow / not responsive enough for the keypad entry.
Is there another way to show the Hubitat dashboard via the local link within Sharptools?
It’s most likely your browser blocked Mixed Content (which is also common for displaying images from your LAN) and there’s some workarounds for that here:
Depending on what the “Virtual Keypad App” actually does, there may be other more efficient ways to accomplish a similar kind of thing directly within SharpTools – what feature are you specifically interested in from the app?
Thanks for your help Josh. I found that the local link actually worked on the Fire tablet, just not on my laptop - most likely because I have updates disabled on the tablet.
In regards to the Virtual Keypad app that I am using in HE, the only real benefit is that multiple passwords can be saved and allocated to different people which I dont beleive can be done in Sharptools.
There’s a feature request for natively supporting multiple PINs in SharpTools here if you want to cast a vote:
In the meantime, here’s a Custom Tile that works with the Virtual Basic Keypad from mbarone
:
Here’s a quick video demo of it:
As a side note, I noticed that the Virtual Basic Keypad driver didn’t work until I entered something into the “No Code Required” preference field of the driver. I just put placeholder
there for a test, but it works with explicit armAway,armHome
or similar type values.
Thank you very much for that Josh, yes that is the same one he developed for Hubitat and looks very good. I might stick to the HE one as it works reasonably well with the local link imbedded in my Sharptools dashboard plus I have done some customizing of the display messages and working using Webcore.
Is there a central repository of the various Custom tiles people have developed for Sharptools?
I built the tile above from scratch this morning with the help of Claude (AI), so that one is only listed here!
…but most Custom Tiles are in the Community Projects category of the community:
Oh wow! I didnt know such a thing was possible, I will have to look into it!