

It does so by using a pseudo scripting language that is easy to read and understand by users. “webCoRE is an advanced web-based rule engine that works on top of Samsung SmartThing’s automation platform and delivers complex automation scenarios that users can program. Unlike HousePanel, the community that supports webCoRE is growing by the day. Like HousePanel, webCoRE is an open source project. The last SmartThings dashboard on this list, but certainly not least, is webCoRE. If you’re interested, you can view some different examples of HousePanel dashboards here. Maybe some-day HousePanel will become a viable home automation dashboard option.

The larger the community, the stronger and more robust the product.

If you’re a developer however, dig in! I’ve always been a fan of open source projects. The founder even has his own ActionTiles account, and uses it regulary! It’s a cool concept, and it’s impressive what he’s built, but it’s clearly geared towards developers. His goal, when creating HousePanel, was to “provide an open source platform that developers can use to create dashboards”. The founder himself admits, “HousePanel is considerably more difficult to setup…than ActionTiles”. That said, I don’t think it’s worth exploring for the average person.
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It’s completely free and open source, so critiquing it doesn’t feel right. Let me start by saying, HousePanel is a really cool project. If you’re interested, you can view many different examples of SharpTools.io dashboards here. That can’t happen with ActionTiles, or the other open source options that follow. My concern however, is that SharpTools decides to increase their subscription pricing at some point, leaving existing customers stuck with the choice of paying up, or losing all the work they’ve done. While I don’t love the idea of paying for yet another subscription plan, 30 dollars a year isn’t so bad. dim light from 100 to 0, over 10 minutes)īesides the rule engine, the dashboard itself is fairly comparable to ActionTiles.
That said, you can pull up this dashboard on a phone, tablet, or laptop. The application is web based, so you’ll need WiFi in order to keep your dashboard up and running.
