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Highlighting some new features in OpenRemote Boss 2.0, it is now easy to create control screens using photos from around your house. You can place buttons or switches in "hotspots" over your images and configure them with transparent content or overlay images that shows whether your light or TV is currently on or off – latter works especially well with switches that can update the image to match the device status polled from sensors.
When using buttons, it is possible to map the button to a command that is executed or the button can be mapped as a navigation control to go to another screen on your phone's interface (or execute a command and switch to another screen both!).
You could use a button on the screen above and map it to switch to another screen that gives you a photo of the TV's remote. Now map all the buttons on your remote to infrared commands that you can fetch from Beehive. If you know you're using a popular model, you can share your remote image with mapped buttons to other users as a template. And then collect all your remotes into a single interface!
And there's a lot more fun stuff that can be done with the new OpenRemote Designer. More on that later. |
Comments (2)
Jul 20
Mihail Panayotov says:
Reading that I remember one thing I miss in the OR Designer - exact positioning ...Reading that I remember one thing I miss in the OR Designer - exact positioning of the elements on pixel level. Now you can only drag elements with the mouse, which isn't very precise. There would be great if we have two more fields for X and Y coordinates in the properties panel of the currently selected element.
P.S. And two more fields for width and height would be really great!
Jul 21
Juha Lindfors says:
Thanks for the feedback Mihail. You're right, those properties should be added....Thanks for the feedback Mihail.
You're right, those properties should be added.
However, you can use precise positions with a grid (which has those properties) and then place your components in the grid.