Custom Widgets

On This Screen

1. Give the widget a name that helps users recognize it in the dashboard sidebar.
2. Select the device and choose the primary and secondary metrics to display.
3. Set the kiosk chart behavior and save the widget when the configuration is ready.

Custom widgets let you build compact, device-specific summary cards for dashboard views.

EMMA has two ways to add content to a saved dashboard view:

• Use the star on a device summary card when you want to add one of the standard device metrics shown on the device Status tab.
• Create a custom widget when you need a manually configured card with selected primary metrics, secondary metrics, and an optional chart.

For the star-based flow, see Adding device widgets to a view.

Creating a custom widget

From the dashboard views sidebar:

• Click Add Widget.
• Choose the device the widget should read from.
• Set an optional widget name.
• Choose 1 to 2 primary metrics.
• Choose up to 4 secondary metrics.
• Optionally choose one chart metric.
• Choose how the chart should behave in kiosk mode.

Metric rules

• Available metric choices are filtered by the selected device.
• Duplicate metric choices are not allowed.
• Some metric types are intentionally excluded from custom widgets, such as overload, underrange, spectrum-only widgets, connected devices, and event stream.

Adding a custom widget to a view

• Use the custom widget list in Switch views to place or remove a custom widget from the selected view.
• Click a widget row to toggle it in the selected view.
• Edit a widget to change its device, metrics, chart, or kiosk behavior.
• Delete a widget if it is no longer needed.

Widget behavior

Each custom widget card can show:

• the device name
• the widget name
• primary metric values
• secondary metric values
• the latest timestamp across the primary metrics
• an optional chart with recent grouped data
• an offline badge when the device is not connected

Widgets also update from live MQTT data where available.