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The Benefits of Using a Smart Home Dashboard

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The Benefits of Using a Smart Home Dashboard

A Smart Home Dashboard is a powerful tool that can help you to make your home more convenient, comfortable, and secure. Whether used in a central location, throughout your home, or even in your pocket - a dashboard provides a central place to control all of your home's devices, get

2022: Year in Review!

2022: Year in Review!

This year was filled with exciting updates for SharpTools - from new platform connections to releasing some of the most popularly requested features, it was a busy year! Before we get into those details, I want to extend a special thank you to each and every one of you who

Lab Fun: Math! Dates!

Lab Fun: Math! Dates!

🚀These features are now available natively in the Rule Engine in beta! With the sunset of the SmartThings Groovy platform announced, we noticed an influx of webCoRE users arriving in the SharpTools community who brought with them a desire for math functionality and improved date features! While the feature request

SmartThings vs Hubitat vs Home Assistant

SmartThings vs Hubitat vs Home Assistant

When picking a smart home hub, SmartThings, Hubitat, and Home Assistant are some of the most popular DIY options you'll find on the market. Each hub supports the most common smart home protocols like WiFi, Zigbee, and Z-wave – though some may require additional hardware to accomplish this. Each platform has

Super Tiles

Super Tiles are a feature – unique to SharpTools dashboards – that enable you to mix and match thing attributes, variables, and icons in a dashboard tile using a drag-and-drop editor.

Weather and the Smart Home

Weather and the Smart Home

From knowing if you should grab a jacket before you head out to getting notified if the windows were left open and it's going to rain, there's a ton of great use cases for integrating weather into your smart home experience. > There's a lot of interest in how to use

Custom Tiles

A solution that enables external integrations to seamlessly blend into dashboards. That's what we set out to build with the Custom Tiles [https://docs.sharptools.io/developer-tools/custom-tiles/] feature. As you might suspect, we frequently receive requests to integrate new devices and services into the SharpTools smart home platform. While

Life360 Live Map

Life360 Live Map

Ever wondered where you left your cell phone or where your friends and family were? This community project provides a beautiful map tile for your SharpTools.io dashboards to help you solve that question! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just interested in the end result? You can find more details on how to setup