[SOLVED] Home Page empty in sidebar but works in "Run mode" in Settings => Pages

[ohb1138 (Justus Reich)]

Hi all,

I am running OH 5.1.0 M2 as docker container on my NAS.

1. I have troubles setting up my home page as I have created it successfully as a page in Settings => Pages but when publishing it to the sidebar it is empty.
2. Secondly I would like to delete a page that I have created for testing. When I click “Select” on the top right to select a page (I thought this would be the way to select and delete) nothing happens. Furthermore the web view hangs after clicking “Select” and I need to reload the page to continue working.

Please see the screenshots below …

First screenshot: Showing my Settings => Pages view where I would like to delete the last two pages “Test” and “Witchhill”

Second screenshot: Showing my Settings => Pages view for my “Home Page” in “Run mode” (see bottom right)

Third screenshot: Showing my “Home Page” called from the sidebar with no content

Thank you for any advise. Btw. … there is nothing in the documentation how to delete pages.

Cheers
Justus

[BrettLHolmes]

Hi @ohb1138

Answering 1 at a time

1. Delete when in the page

If you open the page (to edit) and at the bottom of the screen there is a blue Arrow

(facing up)

Click that arrow and scroll to the bottom to delete the page - It should be displayed in Red

[BrettLHolmes]

2. Delete from Select

When you click the Select when listing the pages, the pages listed should change and have a “radio”: button next to each page that allows you to select a page and then select Deleted (in red) on the bottom, left corner.

If this does not happen the try a different browser.

[BrettLHolmes]

Having said that I have realised you are on 5.1 M1 which while re-reading your post and that is a development branch so perhaps all of these issues are related to that and you are testing. If you wanted a production version then look towards 5.0.3

[ohb1138 (Justus Reich)]

@BrettLHolmes

Answering 1 at a time

1. Delete when in the page

If you open the page (to edit) and at the bottom of the screen there is a blue Arrow

(facing up)

Click that arrow and scroll to the bottom to delete the page - It should be displayed in Red

This worked! THANK YOU!

[ohb1138 (Justus Reich)]

@BrettLHolmes

2. Delete from Select

When you click the Select when listing the pages, the pages listed should change and have a “radio”: button next to each page that allows you to select a page and then select Deleted (in red) on the bottom, left corner.

If this does not happen the try a different browser.

I tried Chrome, Brave (based on Chromium), MS Edge and Firefox they all show no radio buttons

[ohb1138 (Justus Reich)]

@BrettLHolmes

Having said that I have realised you are on 5.1 M1 which while re-reading your post and that is a development branch so perhaps all of these issues are related to that and you are testing. If you wanted a production version then look towards 5.0.3

I think it is hard to downgrade. I won’t risk that until there are proofs that the development stream is causing this. I may try to setup another empty system for testing.

Is there a topic where I can report this if misbehaviour is related to the development?

[Nadahar (Nadar)]

I’m no expert at this, but how did you manage to add the Home Page to the sidebar in the first place? I don’t think you’re supposed to, clicking on “openHAB” on top of the sidebar will take you to the combined “Overview” and “Home Page”. The “Home Page” isn’t actually a regular page (confusingly), instead it’s the “bottom menu” of the “Overview” page.

The only way I can fin to add the “Home Page” to the sidebar is to edit the YAML (in “Code” view), and if I do, it shows as a blank page for me as well. But, that’s not so strange, given that it’s not actually a “page” in a regular sense.

[ohb1138 (Justus Reich)]

@Nadahar,

you got me. I changed sidebar to true as I did not now how to acess the Home Page as clicking on the OpenHAB icon brings up the “Overview” page but I don’t know how to access the “Home Page” that is why I addded “sidebar: true” … I removed that now as you confirmed that your page is also empty but I still don’t know how to access it as my Dashboard page shows something different.

Is there a way to reset the “Overview” and the “Home Page” ?

[ohb1138 (Justus Reich)]

I have a customized Dashboard with widgets on the “Overview” page to replace my old HABPanel view with the result that I cannot access the Home Page. How can I access the “Home Page now”. Can I reset the Overview page somehow?

[Nadahar (Nadar)]

@ohb1138

I changed sidebar to true as I did not now how to acess the Home Page as clicking on the OpenHAB icon brings up the “Overview” page but I don’t know how to access the “Home Page”

Personally, I think this is very confusing, but the “Home Page” and the “Overview” are actually “one page”. You can customize the “Overview” page as you want, the “Home Page” is actually just the menu on the bottom:

(Sorry for the terrible marking, but I did on using a laptop pointing stick )

If I “hack” the “Overview” page in the “Code” view so that I can add it to the sidebar, it will show without the “Home Screen”, and that only means that the menu on the bottom is missing:

@ohb1138

Can I reset the Overview page somehow?

I don’t know, and I don’t know if it’s needed either. Are you sure that the “Home Page” menu isn’t showing on your customized “Overview” page?

[ohb1138 (Justus Reich)]

I do not have the bottom menuson the Overview page anymore …

As said I only used HABPanel in the past and with the help from someone he created a HABPanel like page for me and we put it on the Overview page and in that process I deleted everything that was there before as I was not aware that one should not mess around with the “Overview” and the “Home Page”.

My Overview page is now empty:

config:
  fixedType: canvas
  label: Dashboard
  layoutType: fixed
blocks: []
masonry: []
grid: []
canvas: []

Can I somehow reset the “Overview” page back to what it initially was?

[Nadahar (Nadar)]

Mine is like this, see if modifying your helps:

config:
  label: Overview
blocks []
masonry: []
grid: []
canvas: []

Maybe your “fixed” options are the problem?

[ohb1138 (Justus Reich)]

I changed it to

config:
  label: Overview
blocks: []
masonry: []
grid: []
canvas: []

But:

No menu entries at the bottom

[Nadahar (Nadar)]

If you click the little “edit pencil” in the upper right corner, where does it take you? It takes me to “edit Home Page”.

I was thinking that maybe, if it takes you to the “edit Home Page” as well, and you then tried to save that, it might restore something that’s missing…

[ohb1138 (Justus Reich)]

Yes, the pencil took me to the “Edit Home Page” screen. I did some changes there and saved them but the “Overview” Page is still completely empty

[justaoldman (Justan Oldman)]

click overview then click edit home page then go to code and put this back.

config:
  label: Home Page
locations:
  - component: oh-locations-tab
    config: {}
    slots: {}
equipment:
  - component: oh-equipment-tab
    config: {}
    slots: {}
properties:
  - component: oh-properties-tab
    config: {}
    slots: {}

then save and you will have all the tabs back
if you can not get there Then in your browser URL from the overview URL replace /overview with /settings/pages/home/add then click code and add what I posted above.

[ohb1138 (Justus Reich)]

@justaoldman

config:
  label: Home Page
locations:
  - component: oh-locations-tab
    config: {}
    slots: {}
equipment:
  - component: oh-equipment-tab
    config: {}
    slots: {}
properties:
  - component: oh-properties-tab
    config: {}
    slots: {}

Thank YOU! The tabs are back !!!