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Changing mode - panel stays open
When clicking on the "Mode" tile to change mode - a menu opens to select the mode but the menu does NOT automatically close after selecting the mode. Requires the user to actively click the "x" to close
This is by design and not a bug.
All slide-up drawers (dimmer, color, routine list, mode list) stay open so that if the wrong choice is made, the correct choice can be immediately made without re-invoking the drawer.
The drawer can be closed/dismissed with "X", or it will timeout after 30 seconds.
I admit that the auto dismiss duration for "simple" drawers (routine and mode selection are simple, vs dim level and color are more complex) is probably a bit long.
Need help to Set Up Christmas Lights For House
It's nearly Christmas, How to set up Christmas lights to get a festive home for the holidays? Do you have a good suggestion ?
Going between panel shortcuts
I'm trying to setup my action tiles layout. I basically have a Home Panel. Then below it, I have Rooms. I have a Living room panel. When I go to the living room panel, how do I get back to my Home panel.
Two options:
- Put a Panel Shortcut Tile on your "Living Room" Panel that points to your "Home Panel".
- and/or Use the Panel's floating options button (...) and tap the Favorite Button ⭐.
Handle "mostlyOn" State for Trendsetter light group Switches
Hello,
I noticed on a couple threads you guys mentioned Trendsetter as a good option to group lights. I use Trendsetter and specifically the color light and light groups. The only problem I have with it is if all lights arent the same status (brightness and on/off state) the icon changes to a ?
I know thats just the app responding because it doesnt have a valid state of ON/OFF for the button. But the ? just looks really out of place. I would love to see it change to the default state icon of the tile instead of the ?.
I love the app and just a request here, or if you know of any way to work around it I'd be willing to try it :)
Kudos for a great app and thanks in advance for the consideration of this
I took a closer look at Trendsetter to understand the exact situations it uses "mostlyOn" (and other non-standard State Values for Attribute "switch"). At this time, ActionTiles only handles the Commands, Attributes, and Values documented in the SmartThings Developer Documentation for Standard Official Capabilities. A Switch has Attribute switch(on,off). That's all. http://docs.smartthings.com/en/latest/capabilities-reference.html#switch
I do personally think the implementation of additional States in Trendsetter is clever and certainly not entirely unusual for custom Device Types, but without a standard, we would be constantly hardcoding additional customizations to ActionTiles. For a few "very popular" Device Types this may be justifiable, and/or, we can see what, ahem, trends arise in SmartThings development as more and more clever / creative DTHs are developed and shared. Non-Standard DTHs, though, just can't be expected to work with any or all arbitrary SmartApps, including ActionTiles. That means an entire sub-species of DTHs and SmartApps could evolve outside of SmartThing's documentation. It's a scary prospect, frankly.
In the meantime, the easiest workaround is for you to modify your personal instance of the Device Type Handler code to replace the non-standard Values with standard ones. In other words, decide to use either "on" or "off" instead of "half, almostAllOff, mostlyOff, or mostlyOn".
This is a code snip provided by one of our Beta testers when he experienced this same issue. Edit your DTH accordingly.
if (percentOn == 50) //value = "half" value = "on" else if (percentOn > 0 && percentOn <= 25) //value = "almostAllOff" value = "off" else if (percentOn > 25 && percentOn < 50) //value = "mostlyOff" value = "on" else if (percentOn > 50 && percentOn < 100) //value = "mostlyOn" value = "on"
...Terry.
Bose Soundtouch presets missing
Hi guys,
is it any possibility to add in AT a presets from Bose Soundtouch? In ST app shows correctly and work like a charm. In AT work all functions from all of my Boses, except presets!
Sorry for my english!
Thanks!
CO2 (carbon dioxide) Tile incorrect format
Hi!
Humidity from the same Netatmo station is showed correctlly, but CO2 dont. Look:
Value for CO2 is showed in bottom left corner!?
Device handler have for both values exactly the same logic.
In Smartings "My devices" i have this data from Netatmo:
So, CO2 value is showed correctly. Just like humidity!
Smartthings have also exactly the same capabilities-reference for carbonDioxide and humidity:
It must be something on your or Smartthings side. Please help with this issue.
Thank you!
Hi @StaneP
We have made some significant changes to most tiles, CO2 Tile in particular. The changes are now in Beta. We are preparing for an imminent release to Production. Please stay tuned.
Thanks
Alex
Thermostat setpoint 0.5° increments
Is there any way to make ActionTiles thermostat tiles step the temperature up and down by 0.5 degree, not 1 degree.
Hi Dmitry,
There is no way to change that at the moment, but we are aware of this limitation. It's in the pipeline, but we don't have an ETA yet.
Alex
Make Mode Tile resizable
Is there any way to resize the mode tile?
For some reason it is 2 wide with no option (that I see) to resize.
All my mode names are short. Would love to make it 1x1.
Thermostat Tile icon could indicate mode and reduce need for dual-Tile?
Hello all...
Functionality is great, but perhaps now we don't need the 2 separate tiles for heating and cooling, but there is no way to tell what mode it's on, so maybe the icon could change to reflect that, also the size of fan status does not change with the tile size as the temperature in the middle does, thanks.
Harmony Hub just Volume Control?
There is a way to control only the Volume function in the remote not only activities? The idea is create a Tile with Volume Up/Down.. Thanks a lot!
SHM status not updating (probably due to SmartApp Mode Filter usage)
Hello. I noticed this morning that ActionTiles is not updating my SHM status. If I disarm or arm from the SmartThings app, ActionTiles does not reflect the change. I can still control the SHM from ActionTiles and it works fine, but I thought ActionTiles automatically reflected the changes from the smartapp, at least I think it was since before this morning. Thanks.
Thanks again for all that experimentation and research, Nathan!
If I set any options in "Set for specific mode(s)" in the smartapp that is what causes the SHM to read incorrectly.
Unfortunately the "Set for specific mode(s)" option on the SmartApp preference page (and all the automatic mode filtering functionality that option affects) is entirely outside of our control.
The "mode filter" option is automatically appended to any "basic" SmartApp (and we kept our SmartApp "basic" to maximize its efficiency and ensure it was "Works with SmartThings"™ approvable). We have no control over how it works (or how its use may adversely affect ActionTiles!).
We will look into revising the SmartApp to try to remove this option in the future, but in the meantime, all we can say is: Do not use the "Set for specific mode(s)" option of the "ActionTiles V6 (Connect)" SmartApp!
We will post a Knowledge Base article in this regard.
Thank-you,
...Terry.
Panel Navigation Tile for small screens
When using a small screen, it might make sense to have an additional Panel Navigation tile option that works like the initial Routines tile, where you press the tile and get a list of which panel you would like to navigate to. Otherwise, setting up multi-panel navigation on a small screen takes up a lot of screen space or causes a lot of scrolling.
Google Music Tile
Hello, is there a way to add support for google music? Even just for basic playback like pause and close which displays normally on the top bar of an android device if streaming using a google device. Ideally it would be more robust like the ability to pick a playlist if possible.
Intercom feature (between Panels)
Intercom via a Tile intercom (not a shortcut for others app) for speak with other panel. Ex. Push on intercom Tile, choice kids panel or Kitchen panel and talk. If panel that would you talk is open, you automatically hear voice.
This could certainly be a handy function in many households, and it is built into the hardware of quite a few some home control products out there (high-end, and some not yet on the market, like Amazon Alex "Show").
The complexity of this is beyond our scope at the moment. We're hoping that the workaround is for folks to run ActionTiles along with a built-in or 3rd party "intercom app" on the same device. If some particular implementations become popular, then we might save ourselves a lot of work if we can just integrate with them... provided that they have an open API.
Music or Sonos Player Tile is inconsistent (reverse) of industry standard media control and not intuitive
The AT Sonos tile shows current state of the player where the native Sonos and ST interfaces show what happens if you touch it.
Example - in AT if you have paused your Sonos - the AT tile shows pause. But if you look at the same player in Sonos or ST the image is a play button. You touch it and it plays.
Not being consistent with the "normal" interface can be confusing. Beyond this it is more confusing since it isn't consistent across the 3 buttons on the tile itself. The forward and back buttons do not show state, they show what happens if you touch them. The play/pause/stop button should be the same. Besides - state is shown in the description at the bottom of the tile "stopped, volume 45%"
The following are the Sonos App, SmartThings App, and ActionTiles Music Player Tile
Please consider making this change or making it an option for users to pick how they want it to be for their panel.
Just to clear up any confusion...
The Music Player Tile was implemented the current way on purpose, in order to be consistent with every other ActionTiles Tile.
Every Tile that is a "control or command Tile" (i.e., is clickable), shows the current State of the Thing, not the next State. For example...
- A Switch that is Off will show that it is Off and tapping it will turn it On and show that it is On.
- A Garage Door that is Open will show that it is Open and tapping it will Close it.
Therefore:
- A Music Player that is Playing will show that it is Playing (▶️) - i.e,. the current State, rather than showing Pause (⏸️), i.e., the next State.
We acknowledge that for Music Player Tile this is not consistent with the User Interfaces of other Apps (though some Apps / Devices use a single "play/pause" icon (⏯️), and show the State separately!
Adding Tiles for Logitech Squeezebox
I'm using the Device Handler discussed here to control my Squeezbox Devices: https://community.smartthings.com/t/squeezebox-and-smarthings/1622/31
The DH is set up as a Virtual Switch and we can only use it to Start/Stop Playback. The Squeezebox Devices show up in Action Tiles as Switches, but I would like to add the Squeezebox Devices to show up as Music Players in Action Tiles (to make it easier to identify and to get them to look the same as other music players using the Elements Theme.
I've added the following to the Custom Device Handler in the hope that that would cause the Squeezebox Device to show up as a Music Player in the Active Tiles, but that did not help:
metadata {
definition (name: "sqVS", namespace: "mmaxwell", author: "Mike Maxwell") {
capability "Actuator"
capability "Switch"
capability "Refresh"
capability "Sensor"
capability "Music Player"
capability "Polling"
capability "Speech Synthesis"
}
Is there something else I can try?
Thanks
Tiles for Back to Previous Panel and Jump to Favorite Panel
I have panels created for various rooms, That group the same devices in that room together, would be great to have a tile/button that u could add as a "back" or shortcut back to your favourite panel
Spotify Tile
It would be good to have a Spotify Tile like you get on android Widget for playing music permanently on-screen.
Direct API Tiles are discussed in a few Feature Request Topics; but such a concept is not on short-term radar.
More details are prominent in this Topic: http://support.actiontiles.com/topics/1285-deeper-richer-kodi-control-tile/
...Terry.
Photograph Tiles
It would be great to be able add a few of my favorite photos to my panel. At least a 3x2 would be great! A picture from a local folder or even off my Google drive could be selected under the Media Tile menu.
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