Under the 'coming soon' banner, Amazon mentioned that widgets would support an XL format to better make use of horizontal space on smaller screens. There's currently zero documentation on how to implement but with a little playing around I figured it out and Bruce (thanks!) confirmed that my 8" experiments also looked good on the 5" Echo Show.
Today, Amazon certified v2.6 of EvoControl with this new XL widget. There's a staggered rollout so you should receive it automatically in the next day or 2 but if you're impatient you can remove the current widget and re-add it and then the new version will appear immediately. I took this opportunity to definitively delete the original widget that so many of you never saw due to an Amazon bug.
The new XL widget is also responsive to the number of tiles on screen, so if you have 9 zones or less (or DHW and 8 zones or less) you'll see larger tiles. Because the full complement of 12 zones + DHW can all fit on the screen of even the 5", the mask is no longer used and there's never a need to scroll the widget no matter how big your system!
On the second page that appears when you select the '🎞️ Activities' button on the main page, there's plenty of space for the max. 12 Activities plus the 'Standby ♾️' and 'Reset' buttons.
On both pages, the extra available width has been put to good use the outside temperature as known to the skill is now shown in the widget header. SysMode is still shown to the right, together with a 🔥icon to indicate demand-count when a HGI-80 is in use. A new feature for those with a HGI is that the aggregated boiler demand is shown as a percentage next to a ♨️ icon in the header. This figure gives an idea of how hard your boiler is actually working to supply the demand of each zone.
Today, Amazon certified v2.6 of EvoControl with this new XL widget. There's a staggered rollout so you should receive it automatically in the next day or 2 but if you're impatient you can remove the current widget and re-add it and then the new version will appear immediately. I took this opportunity to definitively delete the original widget that so many of you never saw due to an Amazon bug.
The new XL widget is also responsive to the number of tiles on screen, so if you have 9 zones or less (or DHW and 8 zones or less) you'll see larger tiles. Because the full complement of 12 zones + DHW can all fit on the screen of even the 5", the mask is no longer used and there's never a need to scroll the widget no matter how big your system!
On the second page that appears when you select the '🎞️ Activities' button on the main page, there's plenty of space for the max. 12 Activities plus the 'Standby ♾️' and 'Reset' buttons.
On both pages, the extra available width has been put to good use the outside temperature as known to the skill is now shown in the widget header. SysMode is still shown to the right, together with a 🔥icon to indicate demand-count when a HGI-80 is in use. A new feature for those with a HGI is that the aggregated boiler demand is shown as a percentage next to a ♨️ icon in the header. This figure gives an idea of how hard your boiler is actually working to supply the demand of each zone.