Links of OH2 dashboard in OH3

NorbertHD · November 8, 2020, 5:35pm

In OH2 I have the dashboard with links to Grafana and FrontTail.
How do I include these links in the OH3 GUI?

rlkoshak · November 9, 2020, 6:05pm

There is no more dashboard UI in OH 3. I don’t think MainUI supports external links at this time. You might be able to add a card to the overview page with a link, but I’ve not looked into that sort of thing yet. It seems like that should be possible. @ysc, is there support or planned support for external links in MainUI?

ysc · November 9, 2020, 6:10pm

There should be. On the home page look for that button and it will open the “other apps” drawer.

The tiles displayed there are the equivalent of those of the former dashboard, so the external links should be there as well. If that’s not the case, maybe there’s a problem - open an issue in Issues · openhab/openhab-core · GitHub to have it looked at.

NorbertHD · November 9, 2020, 7:19pm

Thank you Yannick, I see “Basic UI” and “HABPanel” there,
but not the links that are defined in the /etc/openhab/services/dashboard.cfg file.
That’s where the links to Grafana and FrontTail are.

ysc · November 9, 2020, 8:52pm

Oh, that particular file name is indeed probably not right anymore with OH3, but the code is there though:

github.com

openhab/openhab-core/blob/91e16e0f80eb5c18da29cb2211b32c5b0a000201/bundles/org.openhab.core.ui/src/main/java/org/openhab/core/ui/internal/tiles/TileService.java#L72



protected void removeTile(Tile tile) {
    tiles.remove(tile);
}

@Override
public Stream<Tile> getTiles() {
    return tiles.stream();
}

private void addTilesForExternalServices(Map<String, Object> properties) {
    for (String key : properties.keySet()) {
        if (key.endsWith(LINK_NAME)) {
            if (key.length() > LINK_NAME.length()) {
                // get prefix from link name
                String linkname = key.substring(0, key.length() - LINK_NAME.length());

                String name = (String) properties.getOrDefault(linkname + LINK_NAME, "");
                String url = (String) properties.getOrDefault(linkname + LINK_URL, "");
                String imageUrl = (String) properties.getOrDefault(linkname + LINK_IMAGEURL, "");

I have no clue in which exact file the external links should be defined (yet), but I will investigate.

eikowagenknecht · December 23, 2020, 7:54am

Hey Yannick, did you have the time yet to investigate this? With OH3 final it still seems to be a problem. At least openHABian 1.6.2 still creates the dashboard.cfg which is apparrently not used any more. For details see [mainUI] apps panel (other apps); definitions from dashboard.cfg missing · Issue #1849 · openhab/openhab-core · GitHub

Confectrician · December 23, 2020, 7:57am