Hi everyone!
Gladys Assistant 5.3.3 is out ![]()
Don’t let the version number fool you: this release is almost entirely about one project, Gladys on your phone. Many of you check your dashboard on your smartphone, but as soon as you wanted to change a widget or a scene, you were facing a desktop form squeezed onto a small screen. So we rebuilt dashboard and scene editing starting from the phone. On a computer, your habits don’t change.

Edit the dashboard with your thumb
- the “Devices” widget is rebuilt from scratch: a clear list with the value of each device, and a picker that groups devices by room;
- the edit panel opens halfway, so the widget you are editing stays visible above it;
- “Move to…” moves a widget to another column without drag and drop, and the “Reorganize” mode collapses every widget to rearrange the page in a few taps;
- no more lost changes: leaving the editor with unsaved changes asks for confirmation.
Scenes, designed for the phone
- the scene list gets a search, tag chips, and a swipe to disable or duplicate a scene;
- the editor reads as a numbered timeline, and each step opens in a panel that slides up from the bottom of the screen;
- swipe a step to delete it, long press to move it;
- unsaved changes are kept as a draft in the browser, even if your phone closes the app in the background.
A condition can read the state of a device
On every screen size, a “Condition on variables” step can now compare the current state of a device directly. No need to add a “Get device value” step first anymore! Thanks to everyone who asked for it in this topic.
And also
- Gladys warns you when the clock of the machine running it is off, and can turn time synchronization back on in one click;
- the side menu collapses on a computer (as requested here);
- Zigbee2MQTT explains why it does not start, and SONOFF ZBDongle-E with an old firmware start on their own;
- pilot-wire heaters regulated by Gladys can rest on Eco or Off instead of frost protection;
- each socket of a power strip can be driven from a scene;
- and a bunch of fixes (calendar, Matter, MQTT, energy price…).
All the details, with screenshots, are in the blog post: Gladys Assistant 5.3.3: the dashboard and the scenes, designed for your phone | Gladys Assistant
New: tell us what you think!
You’ll find a “Give feedback” link on every integration page and in the profile menu. It opens a new topic here, pre-filled with “What works well” / “What could be improved”. We get very little feedback on what works and what doesn’t, so please use it, it really helps us know where to put our efforts ![]()
As always, Gladys updates automatically within 24 hours if you use Watchtower, otherwise you can do it in one click from the settings.
A big thank you to @cicoub13, @Will_71, @bertrandda and @huangkongsheng for their contributions to this release!
If you try the new editors on your phone, let us know how it goes below ![]()