Pierre-Gilles
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8 years ago Explanation of what everything is and how to get it, device, deviceTypes, scenarios, scripts, etc. It is a lot to take in when viewing the dashboard. When I attempt to add a scenario for example, and choose a device, there is an empty deviceType field, But I don't know how to add a new deviceType.
You are right, we should provide either an onboarding, or a user manual directly linked in the dashboard. Things are not as clear as it should be for a newcomer. Great find for the scenario, it should be clearer.
How can I add more dashboard widgets. Currently there is only a calendar, but it is unclear how new widgets are added. The screenshots on the website show that there is also at least another one, a weather widget, but I was not able to find it. It is so shows a "I now" tasks widget, and a device widget.
Default widgets are defined either there and downloaded at first installation or in parameters. Or can be added by Gladys module. My point of vue is that most widgets should be default in Gladys, and module should just focus on low level interaction like talking to peripherals, or things like that.
Via Twitter I found that there is a shortcut, Ctrl+, to issue commands via keyboard. A very powerful feature! But it does not seem documented anywhere. Also, is it accessible via mobile (I cannot press Ctrl+ there)?
Completely right. An onboarding tutorial should explain the feature. On mobile, I think we should either provide a chat widget with gladys, or simply add a talk button and then simply trigger a speech recognition service.
In preferences I can configure different servers running Gladys, does this mean that there is a automatisch synchronisation between the two? Can I do multiroom setups with Gladys? For example for voice-activation, speak and music, etc. If yes, that is an awesome feature and should be advertised more!
That's the goal of this feature, but it's not working for now. But all bricks are here to make this work, so implementing multi-gladys-servers should not be a big deal (really).
What is done automatically and what do I need to configure? According to the website Gladys can wake me up and analyze my sleep. How? I have set an alarm, but received no message when it completed.
This was a feature of the v2, but it's not fully in the v3 for now. You can create event in this list of events and with "going-to-sleep" and "wake-up" events, Gladys can calculate your sleep. The goal is to be completely agnostic of the method you use to determine when you wake up/go to sleep. It can be a motion sensor, it can be your phone, it can be a button, NFC, or a Fitbit tracker, whatever :)
I read that the notification method is prioritized based on context. I see some configuration options for notifications under Parameters -> Notifications. What should the priority value be, 1 for important, or a high number for importance? And how do I link this to a context?
Lower priority will be triggered first. 1, then 2, then 3 ! We should add a text message explaining that. There is no notion of context for now, but I want to add a notion of "importance", like you don't want gladys to talk or notify you for dumb things, so you can say "don't notify me with this type of notification for notification which are not as important as X"
My timeline is empty, how do I fill it?
Timelime shows events I talked before
I installed the Pushbullet module, but I now do not know what I can do with it. I expected it to appear as a deviceType, or to have to configure the Pushbullet device ID somewhere.
Any notification created (like in script or in a module or in a scenario with gladys.notification.create ) will trigger one by one each notificationType order by priority ASC.
Not all modules on the website are available in my Gladys installation (Kodi for example)
Only module v3 compatible are shown in Gladys.
Can I install more npm modules, and how?
In script you cannot use NPM module ( it's executed inside a sandbox ), only Gladys module function and gladys core functions.
In the command part, how can the module define commands and how is the module invoked?
You can add commands with gladys.sentence.create({...}).
If I use assets like images, what will be the path to the resources?
/modules/YOUR_MODULE_SLUG/..
For i18n, where do I place the translation files?
You can use your own translation in your module, or for the view use angular in18 included in the module. Some module on the store are doing that, you can watch their git, can be a good inspiration source :)
How do I 'declare my box to Gladys' for a dashboard widget
You create an install function in your module, with a gladys.boxType.create({...})
How does command classification work, in more detail?
It's basically machine learning, you train a model with sentence and it passes threw the classifier. I use the limdu module :)
So to conclude, this is not really an issue, but more a write-up of my first experience with the project. And where I see locations for improvement. I am willing to contribute to improvements to documentation or code (if and when the maintainers agree with me of course).
It's really great to see people reacting like that. External critics are always a great way to improve a product, and as the founder in the project since 3 years, I don't always sees things like that. Great to have such feebacks, I appreciate the time you took.
I was using Trello before, but now I use GitHub project to organize my work, ( see here ), I will add all your critics in the todo view tonight, and work tonight or tomorrow on it :)
Thanks again !
danships
dier02
Two days ago I installed Gladys and I'd like to share my experiences as a new user. This is not meant in a negative way, I like the direction of the project and would like to participate in it. Some things might already be on the roadmap. My first contributions could be contributing to the documentation, if desired. This gives me a change to get to know the project more before diving into coding. My experiences are divided into two parts, using the software, and the (developer) documentation
Setup is very simple, I do not host it on a raspberry pi, but used the install script as a guideline and quickly got it working. After that it got more difficult, there is no documentation after that. It would have been useful to have some kind of first-time installation guide or on-boarding flow.
What I missed:
These are things that I could not find an answer to in the online docmentation.
Being a developer myself I also checked the developer documentation. After reading this I had the following questions:
So to conclude, this is not really an issue, but more a write-up of my first experience with the project. And where I see locations for improvement. I am willing to contribute to improvements to documentation or code (if and when the maintainers agree with me of course).