Adding string selection item to Habpanel

[Oli (Oliver Stenzel)]

General Widget building, covers string items in first post:

Custom widgets: feature walkthrough

Hi everyone, This post introduces a new HABPanel feature: custom widgets! They are based on the template widget - which isn’t going away - but improves it by offering a central space for widgets that are designed to be reused, shared, and configured. Therefore, if you have multiple widgets of the same type on your dashboards, you can now use a centrally-managed template with configurable settings. This is better for several reasons: technical (no wasteful duplication of template code) and pra…

And this one especially concerning music players:

Custom Widget: Music Control

Thought I’d put together a Music Control Widget that had everything in one widget. [image] It uses two items Dimmer Kitchen_Volume "Volume" Player Kitchen_Music "Music" Widget settings are action_item = Kitchen_Music status_item = Kitchen_Music my_name = String value (Speaker Location/Name) volume = Kitchen_Volume step = Number value (volume increments) Credit to @ysc lot of the widget code is from one of his screen shots in a post Custom widgets: feature walkthrough Hope it is of use to…