diff --git a/backend/app/flow/dashboards.py b/backend/app/flow/dashboards.py
index 3d68a61..cc9314d 100644
--- a/backend/app/flow/dashboards.py
+++ b/backend/app/flow/dashboards.py
@@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ WidgetType = Literal[
     "markdown",
     "agenda",
     "notification",
+    "bar",
+    "icon",
+    "forecast",
+    "clock",
     # Input
     "button",
     "switch",
@@ -66,6 +70,10 @@ WIDGET_DTYPES: dict[str, set[str]] = {
     "switch": {"bool"},
     "agenda": {"list"},
     "notification": {"record"},
+    "bar": {"float", "int"},
+    "forecast": {"list"},
+    # An icon maps weather strings, bool hints and numbers alike, and a clock
+    # binds nothing at all, so neither has a row to be held to.
 }
 
 
@@ -124,7 +132,8 @@ class WidgetDef(BaseModel):
                 if series.get("message")
             ]
         name = self.config.get("message")
-        return [str(name)] if name else []
+        inner = self.config.get("inner")  # only a bar nests a second reading
+        return [str(value) for value in (name, inner) if value]
 
     @property
     def target(self) -> str:
@@ -161,7 +170,7 @@ class WidgetDef(BaseModel):
                 str(series.get("dtype") or "")
                 for series in self.config.get("series") or []
             ]
-        return [str(self.config.get("dtype") or "")]
+        return [str(self.config.get(key) or "") for key in ("dtype", "inner_dtype")]
 
     @model_validator(mode="after")
     def _check_binding(self) -> WidgetDef:
diff --git a/backend/tests/flow/test_dashboards.py b/backend/tests/flow/test_dashboards.py
index 1e0aa07..4c9f07f 100644
--- a/backend/tests/flow/test_dashboards.py
+++ b/backend/tests/flow/test_dashboards.py
@@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ def test_a_widget_refuses_a_dtype_it_cannot_carry():
 def test_the_structured_widgets_bind_their_shapes():
     WidgetDef(id="a", type="agenda", config={"message": "a.b", "dtype": "list"})
     WidgetDef(id="n", type="notification", config={"message": "a.b", "dtype": "record"})
+    WidgetDef(id="f", type="forecast", config={"message": "a.b", "dtype": "list"})
 
     with pytest.raises(ValueError):
         WidgetDef(id="a", type="agenda", config={"message": "a.b", "dtype": "json"})
@@ -220,6 +221,41 @@ def test_the_structured_widgets_bind_their_shapes():
         WidgetDef(
             id="n", type="notification", config={"message": "a.b", "dtype": "list"}
         )
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+        WidgetDef(id="f", type="forecast", config={"message": "a.b", "dtype": "json"})
+
+
+def test_a_bar_nests_a_second_number():
+    WidgetDef(
+        id="b",
+        type="bar",
+        config={
+            "message": "a.in",
+            "dtype": "float",
+            "inner": "a.pv",
+            "inner_dtype": "int",
+        },
+    )
+
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+        WidgetDef(
+            id="b",
+            type="bar",
+            config={"message": "a.in", "dtype": "float", "inner_dtype": "bool"},
+        )
+
+
+def test_a_bar_is_drawn_on_both_readings_it_nests():
+    widget = WidgetDef(id="b", type="bar", config={"message": "a.in", "inner": "a.pv"})
+
+    assert widget.messages == ["a.in", "a.pv"]
+
+
+def test_a_clock_reads_nothing_and_publishes_nothing():
+    widget = WidgetDef(id="c", type="clock", config={"format": "24h"})
+
+    assert widget.messages == []
+    assert widget.target == ""
 
 
 def test_a_querying_chart_asks_with_a_record_and_draws_a_series():
diff --git a/frontend/src/client/schemas.gen.ts b/frontend/src/client/schemas.gen.ts
index dad9fc0..09df90d 100644
--- a/frontend/src/client/schemas.gen.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/client/schemas.gen.ts
@@ -2907,7 +2907,7 @@ export const WidgetDefSchema = {
         },
         type: {
             type: 'string',
-            enum: ['stat', 'gauge', 'chart', 'markdown', 'agenda', 'notification', 'button', 'switch', 'slider', 'input', 'dropdown'],
+            enum: ['stat', 'gauge', 'chart', 'markdown', 'agenda', 'notification', 'bar', 'icon', 'forecast', 'clock', 'button', 'switch', 'slider', 'input', 'dropdown'],
             title: 'Type'
         },
         title: {
diff --git a/frontend/src/client/types.gen.ts b/frontend/src/client/types.gen.ts
index ba35a1d..78cd8a2 100644
--- a/frontend/src/client/types.gen.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/client/types.gen.ts
@@ -967,7 +967,7 @@ export type ValidationResult = {
  */
 export type WidgetDef = {
     id: string;
-    type: 'stat' | 'gauge' | 'chart' | 'markdown' | 'agenda' | 'notification' | 'button' | 'switch' | 'slider' | 'input' | 'dropdown';
+    type: 'stat' | 'gauge' | 'chart' | 'markdown' | 'agenda' | 'notification' | 'bar' | 'icon' | 'forecast' | 'clock' | 'button' | 'switch' | 'slider' | 'input' | 'dropdown';
     title?: string;
     layout?: {
         [key: string]: Placement;
@@ -977,7 +977,7 @@ export type WidgetDef = {
     };
 };
 
-export type type = 'stat' | 'gauge' | 'chart' | 'markdown' | 'agenda' | 'notification' | 'button' | 'switch' | 'slider' | 'input' | 'dropdown';
+export type type = 'stat' | 'gauge' | 'chart' | 'markdown' | 'agenda' | 'notification' | 'bar' | 'icon' | 'forecast' | 'clock' | 'button' | 'switch' | 'slider' | 'input' | 'dropdown';
 
 export type WorkerInfo = {
     name: string;
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/BarWidget.tsx b/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/BarWidget.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..be8c23f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/BarWidget.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+import type { WidgetProps } from "./widgets"
+
+/** A bar — a stub until the bar widget is written. */
+export function BarWidget(_props: WidgetProps) {
+  return <p className="text-sm text-muted-foreground">—</p>
+}
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/ClockWidget.tsx b/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/ClockWidget.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bef1b89
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/ClockWidget.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+import type { WidgetProps } from "./widgets"
+
+/** A clock — a stub until the clock widget is written. */
+export function ClockWidget(_props: WidgetProps) {
+  return <p className="text-sm text-muted-foreground">—</p>
+}
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/ForecastWidget.tsx b/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/ForecastWidget.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..62b8baa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/ForecastWidget.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+import type { WidgetProps } from "./widgets"
+
+/** A forecast — a stub until the forecast widget is written. */
+export function ForecastWidget(_props: WidgetProps) {
+  return <p className="text-sm text-muted-foreground">—</p>
+}
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/IconWidget.tsx b/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/IconWidget.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3afe09a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/IconWidget.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+import type { WidgetProps } from "./widgets"
+
+/** An icon — a stub until the icon widget is written. */
+export function IconWidget(_props: WidgetProps) {
+  return <p className="text-sm text-muted-foreground">—</p>
+}
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/icons.ts b/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/icons.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ad27279
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/icons.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+import {
+  ArrowDown,
+  ArrowUp,
+  BatteryCharging,
+  Bed,
+  Check,
+  CircleCheck,
+  CloudDrizzle,
+  CloudFog,
+  CloudLightning,
+  CloudRain,
+  CloudSnow,
+  Cloudy,
+  DoorOpen,
+  Droplets,
+  Fan,
+  Flame,
+  House,
+  Lightbulb,
+  type LucideIcon,
+  Moon,
+  Plug,
+  Snowflake,
+  Sun,
+  SunSnow,
+  Thermometer,
+  ThermometerSun,
+  TriangleAlert,
+  Umbrella,
+  Wind,
+  Zap,
+} from "lucide-react"
+
+/**
+ * The icons a tile may be drawn with, by name.
+ *
+ * Curated rather than lucide's `dynamicIconImports`: the panel has to offer
+ * these in a list, and the dynamic map makes the bundler emit a lazy chunk per
+ * icon — some fifteen hundred of them — so a wall panel would fetch one request
+ * per tile over its LAN before it could draw anything. A few dozen weather,
+ * room and status glyphs cover what a dashboard says, and the map is cheap to
+ * extend.
+ */
+export const ICONS: Record<string, LucideIcon> = {
+  sun: Sun,
+  moon: Moon,
+  cloudy: Cloudy,
+  "cloud-rain": CloudRain,
+  "cloud-drizzle": CloudDrizzle,
+  "cloud-snow": CloudSnow,
+  "cloud-lightning": CloudLightning,
+  "cloud-fog": CloudFog,
+  wind: Wind,
+  umbrella: Umbrella,
+  snowflake: Snowflake,
+  droplets: Droplets,
+  thermometer: Thermometer,
+  "thermometer-sun": ThermometerSun,
+  flame: Flame,
+  fan: Fan,
+  "sun-snow": SunSnow,
+  "door-open": DoorOpen,
+  house: House,
+  bed: Bed,
+  lightbulb: Lightbulb,
+  plug: Plug,
+  zap: Zap,
+  "battery-charging": BatteryCharging,
+  "arrow-up": ArrowUp,
+  "arrow-down": ArrowDown,
+  "triangle-alert": TriangleAlert,
+  check: Check,
+  "circle-check": CircleCheck,
+}
+
+export const ICON_NAMES = Object.keys(ICONS)
+
+/**
+ * What an icon may be tinted, by name.
+ *
+ * Literal classes so Tailwind's scanner sees them. No terracotta: that is the
+ * one affordance a view gets, and a panel is many tiles.
+ */
+export const ICON_COLORS: Record<string, string> = {
+  default: "text-foreground",
+  muted: "text-muted-foreground",
+  primary: "text-primary",
+  success: "text-status-success",
+  danger: "text-destructive",
+}
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/panels.tsx b/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/panels.tsx
index 05aa623..0e7e592 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/panels.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/panels.tsx
@@ -156,6 +156,49 @@ function ModePicker({
   )
 }
 
+/** Which chrome an input wears, in the same segmented shape as the mode. */
+function StylePicker({
+  value,
+  options,
+  onChange,
+}: {
+  value: string
+  options: readonly (readonly [string, string])[]
+  onChange: (style: string) => void
+}) {
+  return (
+    <fieldset
+      data-testid="widget-style"
+      className="flex w-fit items-center gap-1 rounded-full border border-border p-1"
+    >
+      <legend className="sr-only">How this control is drawn</legend>
+      {options.map(([style, label]) => (
+        <button
+          key={style}
+          type="button"
+          aria-pressed={value === style}
+          onClick={() => onChange(style)}
+          className={cn(
+            "rounded-full px-2.5 py-1 text-xs transition-colors",
+            value === style
+              ? "bg-accent text-accent-foreground"
+              : "text-muted-foreground hover:bg-accent/50",
+          )}
+        >
+          {label}
+        </button>
+      ))}
+    </fieldset>
+  )
+}
+
+/** What a text field was meant to send: a bool, a number, or the text itself. */
+function coerce(raw: string): unknown {
+  const asNumber = Number(raw)
+  if (raw === "true" || raw === "false") return raw === "true"
+  return raw !== "" && Number.isFinite(asNumber) ? asNumber : raw
+}
+
 /**
  * What one widget shows or does.
  *
@@ -183,6 +226,9 @@ export function WidgetPanel({
 
   const series = seriesOf(widget)
   const setSeries = (next: Series[]) => set({ series: next })
+  // Nothing wrote these until now, so a dropdown's choices were uneditable.
+  const options = (cfg.options ?? []) as { label?: string; value?: unknown }[]
+  const setOptions = (next: typeof options) => set({ options: next })
   const querying = cfg.source === "query"
   // What this chart would refresh at with nothing configured. The viewer can
   // pick another window on the widget, which moves it.
@@ -334,7 +380,8 @@ export function WidgetPanel({
                 </div>
               )}
             </div>
-          ) : (
+          ) : // A clock reads the wall; a picker would bind a message nothing reads.
+          widget.type === "clock" ? null : (
             <MessagePicker
               kind={widget.type}
               value={str(cfg[isInput ? "target" : "message"])}
@@ -526,21 +573,100 @@ export function WidgetPanel({
             <Input
               value={str(cfg.value)}
               placeholder="true"
-              onChange={(event) => {
-                const raw = event.target.value
-                const asNumber = Number(raw)
-                set({
-                  value:
-                    raw === "true" || raw === "false"
-                      ? raw === "true"
-                      : raw !== "" && Number.isFinite(asNumber)
-                        ? asNumber
-                        : raw,
-                })
-              }}
+              onChange={(event) => set({ value: coerce(event.target.value) })}
             />
           </div>
         ) : null}
+
+        {widget.type === "dropdown" ? (
+          <div className="grid gap-2">
+            <span className={PANEL_SECTION}>Options</span>
+            {options.map((option, index) => (
+              <div
+                // Position is the only identity an option row has.
+                key={`option-${index}`}
+                className="flex items-end gap-1.5"
+              >
+                <Input
+                  className="min-w-0 flex-1"
+                  value={str(option.label)}
+                  placeholder="Label"
+                  aria-label="Option label"
+                  onChange={(event) =>
+                    setOptions(
+                      options.map((other, at) =>
+                        at === index
+                          ? { ...other, label: event.target.value }
+                          : other,
+                      ),
+                    )
+                  }
+                />
+                <Input
+                  className="w-28"
+                  value={str(option.value)}
+                  placeholder="Value"
+                  aria-label="Option value"
+                  onChange={(event) =>
+                    setOptions(
+                      options.map((other, at) =>
+                        at === index
+                          ? { ...other, value: coerce(event.target.value) }
+                          : other,
+                      ),
+                    )
+                  }
+                />
+                <Button
+                  variant="ghost"
+                  size="icon-sm"
+                  className="text-muted-foreground"
+                  aria-label="Remove option"
+                  onClick={() =>
+                    setOptions(options.filter((_, at) => at !== index))
+                  }
+                >
+                  <X />
+                </Button>
+              </div>
+            ))}
+            <Button
+              variant="outline"
+              size="sm"
+              className="h-8 justify-self-start"
+              onClick={() => setOptions([...options, {}])}
+              data-testid="add-option"
+            >
+              <Plus />
+              Add option
+            </Button>
+          </div>
+        ) : null}
+
+        {widget.type === "switch" || widget.type === "dropdown" ? (
+          <div className="grid gap-1.5">
+            <Label className="text-sm font-normal">Style</Label>
+            {widget.type === "switch" ? (
+              <StylePicker
+                value={str(cfg.style) || "track"}
+                options={[
+                  ["track", "Track"],
+                  ["button", "Button"],
+                ]}
+                onChange={(style) => set({ style })}
+              />
+            ) : (
+              <StylePicker
+                value={str(cfg.style) || "list"}
+                options={[
+                  ["list", "List"],
+                  ["segmented", "Segmented"],
+                ]}
+                onChange={(style) => set({ style })}
+              />
+            )}
+          </div>
+        ) : null}
       </div>
     </SidePanel>
   )
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/widgets.tsx b/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/widgets.tsx
index 12fa97a..d63d979 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/widgets.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/Dashboard/widgets.tsx
@@ -19,7 +19,11 @@ import {
   TooltipTrigger,
 } from "@/components/ui/tooltip"
 import { cn } from "@/lib/utils"
+import { BarWidget } from "./BarWidget"
 import { ChartWidget } from "./ChartWidget"
+import { ClockWidget } from "./ClockWidget"
+import { ForecastWidget } from "./ForecastWidget"
+import { IconWidget } from "./IconWidget"
 import { usePublishMessage } from "./queries"
 
 /** Widget types that put a value into the graph rather than read one. */
@@ -50,6 +54,10 @@ export const WIDGET_DTYPES: Partial<Record<WidgetKind, string[]>> = {
   switch: ["bool"],
   agenda: ["list"],
   notification: ["record"],
+  bar: ["float", "int"],
+  forecast: ["list"],
+  // An icon maps weather strings, bool hints and numbers alike, and a clock
+  // binds nothing at all, so neither has a row to be held to.
 }
 
 /** Whether a message of this payload type may drive this kind of widget. */
@@ -65,6 +73,10 @@ export const WIDGET_LABELS: Record<WidgetKind, string> = {
   markdown: "Text",
   agenda: "Agenda",
   notification: "Notification",
+  bar: "Bar",
+  icon: "Icon",
+  forecast: "Forecast",
+  clock: "Clock",
   button: "Button",
   switch: "Switch",
   slider: "Slider",
@@ -80,6 +92,10 @@ export const WIDGET_SIZES: Record<WidgetKind, { w: number; h: number }> = {
   markdown: { w: 6, h: 2 },
   agenda: { w: 4, h: 4 },
   notification: { w: 4, h: 2 },
+  bar: { w: 4, h: 2 },
+  icon: { w: 2, h: 2 },
+  forecast: { w: 6, h: 2 },
+  clock: { w: 3, h: 2 },
   button: { w: 3, h: 2 },
   switch: { w: 3, h: 2 },
   slider: { w: 4, h: 2 },
@@ -125,7 +141,8 @@ export const seriesOf = (widget: WidgetDef): Series[] =>
  * fetching the message catalogue first.
  */
 export function widgetIssue(widget: WidgetDef): string | null {
-  if (widget.type === "markdown") return null
+  // Neither draws a message: a clock reads the wall, markdown its own text.
+  if (widget.type === "markdown" || widget.type === "clock") return null
   const cfg = config(widget)
 
   if (widget.type === "chart" && cfg.source === "query") {
@@ -167,6 +184,13 @@ export function widgetIssue(widget: WidgetDef): string | null {
   if (!acceptsDtype(widget.type, dtype)) {
     return `${bound} is a ${dtype}; a ${WIDGET_LABELS[widget.type].toLowerCase()} cannot carry that.`
   }
+  // Only a bar nests a second reading, and an unrecorded type binds anything.
+  if (!acceptsDtype(widget.type, text(cfg.inner_dtype) || undefined)) {
+    return `${text(cfg.inner)} is a ${text(cfg.inner_dtype)}; a bar nests numbers.`
+  }
+  if (widget.type === "icon" && !(cfg.rules as unknown[] | undefined)?.length) {
+    return "This icon has nothing mapped yet."
+  }
   return null
 }
 
@@ -550,14 +574,33 @@ function ButtonWidget({ widget, dashboard }: WidgetProps) {
   )
 }
 
+/**
+ * A bool, published and read back — a latch either way it is drawn.
+ *
+ * `style: "button"` is a control that stays in rather than a track; both name
+ * the state in words, because a fill alone does not say what it means.
+ */
 function SwitchWidget({ widget, dashboard }: WidgetProps) {
+  const cfg = config(widget)
   const { target, live, send } = usePublish(widget, dashboard)
   if (!target) return <Unbound />
-  return (
+
+  const on = live?.value === true
+  return cfg.style === "button" ? (
+    <Button
+      variant={on ? "default" : "secondary"}
+      className="w-full"
+      aria-pressed={on}
+      aria-label={widget.title || target}
+      onClick={() => send(!on)}
+    >
+      {on ? "On" : "Off"}
+    </Button>
+  ) : (
     <div className="flex items-center justify-between gap-2">
-      <span className="text-sm">{live?.value === true ? "On" : "Off"}</span>
+      <span className="text-sm">{on ? "On" : "Off"}</span>
       <Switch
-        checked={live?.value === true}
+        checked={on}
         aria-label={widget.title || target}
         onCheckedChange={(checked) => send(checked)}
       />
@@ -653,12 +696,47 @@ function InputWidget({ widget, dashboard }: WidgetProps) {
   )
 }
 
+/**
+ * One of N, published and read back.
+ *
+ * `style: "segmented"` shows every choice at once with the active one held —
+ * the same exclusive group, drawn for a panel that is looked at across a room.
+ */
 function DropdownWidget({ widget, dashboard }: WidgetProps) {
   const cfg = config(widget)
   const { target, live, send } = usePublish(widget, dashboard)
   const options = (cfg.options ?? []) as { label?: string; value?: unknown }[]
   if (!target) return <Unbound />
 
+  if (cfg.style === "segmented") {
+    return (
+      // The one segmented shape: a single border pill, no dividers,
+      // transparent segments, bg-accent on the selected one.
+      <fieldset className="flex w-full items-center gap-1 rounded-full border border-border p-1">
+        <legend className="sr-only">{widget.title || target}</legend>
+        {options.map((option) => {
+          const selected = text(option.value) === text(live?.value)
+          return (
+            <button
+              key={text(option.value)}
+              type="button"
+              aria-pressed={selected}
+              onClick={() => send(option.value)}
+              className={cn(
+                "h-11 min-w-0 flex-1 truncate rounded-full px-2.5 text-sm transition-colors md:h-8",
+                selected
+                  ? "bg-accent text-accent-foreground"
+                  : "text-muted-foreground hover:bg-accent/50",
+              )}
+            >
+              {option.label ?? text(option.value)}
+            </button>
+          )
+        })}
+      </fieldset>
+    )
+  }
+
   return (
     <div className="grid gap-1.5">
       <Label className="sr-only">{widget.title || target}</Label>
@@ -700,6 +778,10 @@ const RENDERERS: Partial<
   markdown: MarkdownWidget,
   agenda: AgendaWidget,
   notification: NotificationWidget,
+  bar: BarWidget,
+  icon: IconWidget,
+  forecast: ForecastWidget,
+  clock: ClockWidget,
   button: ButtonWidget,
   switch: SwitchWidget,
   slider: SliderWidget,