Add GUI to Home Assistant

[pepsonEL]

Hi. Good feature will be add GUI to Home Assistant to setup integration.

[michaljonik]

I agree it's nice to have but you normally configure it just once and forget about it. Unless you have some other use-cases where the GUI could be really a game changer?

[pepsonEL]

Yes you are right, but more integration setup once and forgot, and many integration get GUI in Home Assistant.

[michaljonik]

Home Assistant config flows seem to be quite limited. It only supports forms with flat list of entries. No multiple fields in a row. No fancy features. And satel has lots of inputs/outputs which makes it a bit tricky.

One solution would be to split in multiple very long forms like these below. Non-empty names would enable items. Items with empty names would be disabled. Other attributes (like icons) would have to be modified via normal entity customizations.

• Main settings
  • host
  • port
• Partitions names
  • partition 1
  • partition 2
  • ....
  • partition 31
  • partition 32
• Inputs names
  • input 1
  • input 2
  • ....
  • input 255
  • input 256
• Outputs names
  • output 1
  • output 2
  • ...
  • output 255
  • output 256
• Switchable outputs names
  • output 1
  • output 2
  • ...
  • output 255
  • output 256
• Temperature sensors names
  • sensor 1 name
  • sensor 2 name
  • ...
  • sensor 255
  • sensor 256

Any feedbacks or suggestions to improve this idea are welcome.