Gladys Assistant 5.3.3: the dashboard and the scenes, designed for your phone 📱

Hi everyone!

Gladys Assistant 5.3.3 is out :tada:

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.

The Devices widget, the scene list and the scene editor on a phone

:mobile_phone: 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.

:high_voltage: 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.

:electric_plug: 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…).

:backhand_index_pointing_right: 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 :folded_hands:

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 :backhand_index_pointing_down:

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