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Add Chromecast support to Android App

IJM 5 years ago in Panels (dashboards) updated by Alex (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 5 years ago 1

It would be great to show the dashboard on large screen TV using a Chromecast.

Android
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Which Android tablets people recommend for price and functionality?

Josh Fink 7 years ago in Browsers Tablets Phones / Android updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 5 years ago 43 3 duplicates

I'm not necessarily looking for the cheapest tablet but one that works well and is configurable. Preferably one I can root but if it's not needed then all the better.


I think I have a relatively straightforward use case.

  • I want to mount a couple around the house and have 1 or 2 in bedrooms.
  • I would like the screen to go as dim as possible until it senses motion or it's picked up.
  • Obviously needs to run AT and I would prefer it to boot directly into it if possible.

My goal is to make it as easy as possible for someone to pick up and use or go to the wall and use. If for some reason it needs to be rebooted or updated and it's turned back on that it goes directly into AT so that I then don't need to provide tech support.


Thanks

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Answer

Here's the latest topic in SmartThings Users Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/SmartThingsUsersGroup/permalink/1561588473984222/

And it mentions this tablet:  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0174ARTIE/

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Fixed

Blank Screen: Android KitKat and FireOS v4.x (Fire Tablet Gen 3). Release v6.10.0 due to outdated OS WebView

Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 5 years ago in Browsers Tablets Phones / Android updated 5 years ago 24

Fix deployed. v6.10.0+045.

Android
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We have deployed fixes for this issue. Please reload / refresh your browsers.

Core functionality should now work for most browsers which were previously working in v6.9.4.

Those who were affected may still encounter some minor compatibility issues which we will track for possible fixes.

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Move Panel Options (...) from bottom right corner

Johnnie321 5 years ago in Panels (dashboards) updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 5 years ago 1

Provide an option to move the on-Panel, Panel Options FAB (floating action button "...") from the bottom right corner.

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Mostly Answered: Topic Closed

Show me your Panels! - Gallery 2

Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 5 years ago in Panels (dashboards) updated 5 years ago 112

Continuing from very popular first Gallery of Panels: https://support.actiontiles.com/communities/12/topics/1433-show-me-your-panels-gallery-1

Here's a place for Customers to share their Panels and related stories. This content may be copied to other sharing services like Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, etc..

NB: Inquiries about the techniques used to create the particular Panels, frames, etc., may be spun off by the Moderator into new Topics or Help Desk tickets to avoid too much threading here.

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Amazing work everything and thank-you so much for sharing! 😄

This Topic has become super long now, so I've Closed it and started a fresh Topic... Please visit and post to:

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Mostly Answered: Topic Closed

Show me your Panels! - Gallery 1

M2 7 years ago in Panels (dashboards) updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 5 years ago 221

Hi Everyone - new here but am pretty excited about this App. To me, it seems to smartly tie the Smart Home together. As a newbie, I am very interested in see everyone's creative panels. I would post up first but I don't think a few light switches, a clock and the weather are too interesting.

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Amazing work everyone and thank-you so much for sharing! 😄

This Topic has become super long now, so I've Closed it and started a fresh Topic... Please visit and post to:

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Implemented

Pictures/Images as Tile Backgrounds

psyctto 7 years ago in Colors Icons Fonts Themes updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 5 years ago 11 1 duplicate

Searching around the internet for a more eye pleasing interface to SmartThings, I came across SmartTiles and further a custom dashboard created a few years ago. https://community.smartthings.com/t/my-custom-smarttiles-dashboard/48592

Looks like a nice feature that could add a nice look and feel to the project.  Usability would also improve greatly with nontechy folks that like eye candy and don't want the regular tiles approach.  I know this was previously done in the CSS, which is now gone, but an option to do so again would be great.

See Also:  https://support.actiontiles.com/communities/12/topics/1820-custom-icon-image-or-media-tile-as-thing-tile

Answer

Implemented in Release v6.10.0 (Saturday August 17, 2019).

Please see our Release Notes:

Thanks for your Feature Request! Enjoy.

...Terry (& Alex)

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Tile Header force wrap Option

Jim 5 years ago in Configuration & Settings updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 5 years ago 1

This may have been covered already, but I can't find it. 

In creating a custom Tile header it would be nice to have some formatting options. I have 2 tiles side by side on one of my panels.

One says 'Outdoor Humidity' the other 'Indoor Humidity'. The outdoor one is just long enough that it shows up on 2 lines. The indoor shows up on 1 line.

I tried various ways to get the indoor on 2 lines as I think it looks better, but the only way I found was to add additional characters such as a dash. Adding spaces didn't work, it appears they are ignored.

Just my 2 bits worth.

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RELEASE v6.9.4: Minor Release - Performance upgrades, Location License management, Streamlined navigation

Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 5 years ago in Announcements / Release Notes updated 5 years ago 3

It's been a while since we made any changes to the application. We have been working on infrastructure upgrades to lay foundation for future services and integrations.

Release notes:

  • My Licenses page: View Location Licenses and transfer them between locations.
  • My Locations page: added option to remove locations.
  • Side Navigation menu is simplified.
  • Faster transitions between panels.
  • Performance improvements, including PIN input.
  • Unicode (foreign characters) are properly handled in more places.

Thanks for your continued support and endorsement of ActionTiles!

...Alex & Terry

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Discuss & Vote

Sound Notification for status change of selected Things

CS Home 7 years ago in Panels (dashboards) / Notifications & Sound updated by Orlando M Muniz 5 years ago 12 1 duplicate

Would be great if each tile can be set to make a sound (from tablet or phone) whenever the status changes. This way, when a door opens or motion sensed, a sound is emitted. Can be set on/off for each tile.

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Answered: Discussion Open

Intent URL for Spotify on Denon Heos on Fire Tablet

Supergolfstick 6 years ago in Shortcut Tiles updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 5 years ago 2

Can anyone help with finding/creating the Intent URL to integrate Spotify and Denon Heos Drive for action tiles.  I have tried from other posts intent URL's that are out there and they seem to only be IOS based and not proper string for android or more specifically the Amazon Fire HD 10 (2017).  Any help is greatly appreciated.

Fire
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Waiting for Customer

Amazon Dash Button Tiles / Panel

Kenny 5 years ago in Things & Capabilities / Non-"Works With SmartThings" devices updated by Kevin1 5 years ago 2

Would love to see ability to have a panel of (virtual) Amazon Dash buttons. Now that Amazon is retiring the physical buttons, having them on action tile panel would be handy as hell.

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On Hold: Discussion Open

Allow creating Custom additional Tile Intentions

Justin Cox 5 years ago in Colors Icons Fonts Themes updated by Tomas Smedberg 5 years ago 2 1 duplicate

I understand why you guys created tile intentions...makes sense. That said, at the end-of-the-day, it's really just a mechanism to control styling, why not open that up? Allow the creation of tile intentions with styling options and people can create whatever they'd like!

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Fixed

Netatmo: No Thermostat Tile option

Kevin Spencer 5 years ago in Things & Capabilities updated by Alex (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 5 years ago 5

Hi all,I'm new to actiontiles and I'm trying to get the control of my thermostat working. 

My panel shows the current temperature of the thermostat but doesn't give me the option to change the temperrature.

I have full control in smarthings but when I first setup actiontiles and I sync with smarthings and imported my devices it wasn't in the list  

Can someone advise what may be the problem?

Cheers, Kevin.

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Discuss & Vote

Open media fullscreen from SmartThings using Fully API or ActionTiles API

Christophe 5 years ago in Panels (dashboards) / Special Tiles updated 5 years ago 2

I would like my fire tablets under Fully browser to open my camera media tile fullscreen when motion are detected. Since fully browser support REST and js call, is there a way to do that from webcore maybe ?
Thank you

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Discuss & Vote

Allow information & Media Tiles to act as Shortcut Tiles

Kristopher J. 6 years ago in Panels (dashboards) / Special Tiles updated by Steve B 5 years ago 11 1 duplicate

It would be awesome if we could change the destination of a tile.  For example, adding a tile displaying the current temperature, but change the destination to anything else.  Such as a different panel or pops up the thermostat settings, etc.  Another idea would be a static icon, that links to a media content (such as showing a simple "CCTV" icon that when clicked opens the full-screen live camera media content.  (Instead of showing the live content in the small tile)

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sort elements in a tile by status (e.g. temperature, battery level, etc).

Jason Emes 5 years ago in Panels (dashboards) updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 5 years ago 1

Is there a way to auto sort devices within a tile by status?  For example, I have over 50 things.  I want to monitor battery status so I know which are lowest.  Can it auto-sort by lowest battery level so I dont have to visually scan all 50 looking for ones with low batttery.

Similarly, I want to monitor temperature on the property.  Can it auto-sort highest to lowest for summer and then lowest to highest for winter.  

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Discuss

Weather alerts

warpkk 5 years ago in Panels (dashboards) / Notifications & Sound updated by Sidney 5 years ago 4

Anyone know a good app for fire tablets that can play an alarm or other notification sound when there are weather alerts?

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Fetch Weather and Crop Images: Script & Instructions

Thyamine 5 years ago in Media Tiles / Weather & Traffic updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 5 years ago 0

For anyone else who is interested, I also wanted to have weather displayed on my screen. Thanks to others on this site, I found that the local news station did have static URLs for the daily/local weather, so I could just add those to a media tile, and it worked fine.

However, the images had a lot of unused space, and on the tablet was hard to see. I also then found I didn't want a lot of the extra data, and decided to poke around. I ended up writing a script that copies the images down locally, then crops the images, and for one of them combines two images into a single image.

It's more complex than some people may want, but for those of you who like to tinker and hack at what we can do, you will probably appreciate it.

The general explanation is here: https://www.sleepyweim.com/2019/05/21/actiontiles-show-local-weather/

and if you want the script straight out, you can get it here: https://www.sleepyweim.com/2019/06/01/python-fetch-weather-for-actiontiles/

Enjoy!

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Waiting for Customer

RPi Camera Feed via Web Interface?

AndyJ 5 years ago in Media Tiles / Video Camera Feeds updated by Robb 5 years ago 2

I use RPi Cam Web Interface on a Raspberry Pi for a security camera and I'm trying to get that working in AT.  Details here:

https://elinux.org/RPi-Cam-Web-Interface

in my browser, "basic" feed will be something like:

 

http://192.168.123.456:1234/cam/min.php

But I can't get this to work in AT.  Any help would be gratefully received.