I am in the process of designing a dashboard to handle my leak sensors and shut off valves and am seeking inspiration and ideas on best practices and layout.
This is a plain list of what I am dealing with:
This is what I would like to achieve (some of which I already have):
- Large blinking icons telling me there is a leak. I have those on the water leak tab and also on my main dashboard.
- Restricted toggling of the water valves to avoid accidental toggling. Currently using Restriction card but I believe the button card also has restriction abilities. I am tempted to move to that to consolidate.
- Alerts sent to phone and played on a few Echos in the house. Alerts tell you what sensor triggered the alarm and both start / stop events.
- Display a log on the water leak tab with last events, including leaks, water detection (for HVAC pans), and valve changes of state. I do not have this yet and am not sure on the best approach.
- Low battery and offline sensors / valves alerts (don’t have and this caused me not to notice nearly overflowing HVAC pan a couple summers ago… I saw the drip from the overflow pipe outside the house… it could have been really bad thanks to HVAC systems being in the attic…)
What have you done with yours?
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