Introduction

Why Dashticz

The Dashboard of Domoticz is quite powerful. The disadvantage is that it’s only possible to show information known in Domoticz. There is where Dashticz steps in. Dashticz is able to show (almost) all Domoticz information. In addition to that it’s possible to show information from all kind of other sources.

Concept

The Dashticz dashboard may consist of several screens, plus an optional Standby screen.

On every screen you place blocks (also called tiles). A block may be a Domoticz device, a widget (such as weather, a clock, a calendar or the news), external content displayed in a frame, or some other special block.

Dashticz 4 offers two ways to build the dashboard:

Wizard mode

Build the dashboard from the browser. Every screen is a grid on which you place, move and resize tiles with the mouse, and every tile has its own configuration popup. No knowledge of CONFIG.js is needed. See Wizard mode.

Custom mode

Describe the dashboard by hand in custom/CONFIG.js: define the blocks, put them in columns, and put the columns on screens (or place the blocks on a grid). This gives full control over every option and is the way earlier Dashticz versions were configured. See Configuring a dashboard by hand (Custom mode).

Global settings, such as the Domoticz connection, language and theme, can be changed from the Settings menu in both modes (see The Settings menu).

The next sections show how to set up your system, how to build a dashboard in Wizard mode, and how to configure Dashticz, blocks, columns and screens by hand.