I’m looking for a way to combine group elements (like a simple switch or a brightness slider) with the ability to navigate into a group from one single entry/widget.
Currently, I’m controlling four power plugs in a set of two pairs from the basic UI like this:
While it works, this approach wastes a lot of screen space. It would be better to have a single entry with the switch on the right, but clicking on the area left to the switch brings you into the group (which is what the second entry from the screenshot is for).
This approach could be taken a bit further for controlling lights by having a brigthness slider at the bottom of the entry. Additionally, a colour field representing the brightness/colours of the grouped lights (without actual control over the colours) would be a nice way to have an overview over the group.
Is any of these things currently possible with openhab2? If not, where should feature suggestions like these be posted to get the devs attention?
When not using groups and having all of that in the app line by line, these four plugs alone take up a lot of screen space. Are there other ways to create useful hierarchies?
The sitemap visibility= option is quite powerful, allowing you to show/hide lines depending on the state of some other Item.
Ive not seen an obvious application here, though.
I’m still not very clear what you are asking for.
A display line that you click to see more is straightforward, you have that done.
You don’t have to use a Group Item in the clickable line, you can create any kind of averaging or whatever Item that you want to use there.
If you are trying to pack multiple widgets into one line, that’s rather beyond the scope of sitemaps and BasicUI. It’s the kind of thing HABpanel is for.
I want to get rid of the red crossed entry. Instead, I want to use the red circled switch for controlling the group, but be able to click on the green circled area to enter the group (like clicking on the red crossed entry).
I’m basically looking for a group switch that I can use at the same time to enter the group and make fine adjustments there.
I suspect any implementation of that would require reworking of the several sitemap based UI, to distinguish clicks expected to open the sub-page from clicks expected to activate the widget.
You could always lodge an enhancement request in github, but I think it might be late in the day for the sitemap model with OH3 in view.
Closest effect you can get might be this, which offers the sub-page and “master control” one click away