With all the automations in the house coming along just fine, like any developer, I knew my code might have some bugs. So to see what the status of the house and lights are, I leveraged the webcore dashboard.

It comes as part of webcore and each “routine” which they call piston can have its own state. This means I can add text or other information to them.

This section, for instance tells me about the house settings. The first is the name of the piston for e.g.: Better battery indicator. Yes I know its an odd name, but clearly shows it wasn’t my first try for tracking my battery status and also do not judge my naming strategy.

The second part is whatever the status I want to track, for the battery in green it says all batteries are above the 15%. If they go below it then the status will go red and show which devices are low in battery.

Similar for the closet, ensuite, basement and other lights. It gets fancier as well as I can now use this to track my upcoming weather information as well, or even better what the house sensors are saying the temperature is on each level.

Yes I will be talking about those routines as well.