Hi All, has anyone done this? Is it possible? The main UI is OK, but it really lacks a nice look and feel - basic blocky interface etc is great for simplistic stuff but just doesnt cut it compared to Home Assistant.
Has anyone done it?
Thanks
Are you referring to openhab’s UI to manage OH, or the the UI for pages for the end user controls?
Got any examples to explain what you mean further?
This is the first time I’ve heard of Flask, so my knowledge is nonexistent.
Correct me if I’m wrong: From a very brief googling and reading, it’s a python framework that uses Jinja as its rendering/templating engine. My question is, to create nice looking UI, you’d still need to build nice html / css design. Is this also part of Flask, or how does Flask make it easy?
Can you show me how to build that UI you pasted above (just the code is fine).
Of course it’s possible, anything capable of serving web content could be used to build a UI for OH (flask, ruby on rails, PHP or just static HTML with javascript served via nginx or apache). But Flask is mainly for creating the backend logic (and serving templates) which would not be needed. As @jimtng points out, the real work lies in creating the HTML/CSS/JS to make the UI look and work like you want, regardless of which templating engine etc. is used.