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Auto-lock for Door Locks
I just added a door lock to my setup. I used the rboy : Universal Z-Wave Lock With Alarms device type and it gives me the ability to turn on and off the 60 second Auto-lock feature. I would love to have this as a tile on my wall mounted tablet inside the door. Auto-lock is a huge help for me as I often forgot to lock the door previously. But I've found when running out to get the mail or bring in a load of groceries it can be a hassle. I realize I might not be typical use case but I was hoping either it would be relatively simple to add or their are more people out there that would like the same capability.
PIN entry: Add support for hardware keyboard (Bluetooth)
I have a nifty bluetooth numeric keypad which I've attached to my tablet. The idea is to use it as an external keypad to open a lock (have an August lock without keypad), with the tablet sitting inside.However it appears that even though the keypad pairs nicely and works on other web pages and apps, the AT pin-screen does not process keypad input. I've tried on a PC as well. One has to use the mouse to click on the onscreen pin keypad.
Request: Please consider supporting PIN keyboard entry,
NB: This should not show the touch effect (the quick shade-over grey shadow, which briefly passes over the pin buttons when pressed on-screen), because that would reveal the PIN to any observer, of course.
SmartWeather Station Tile location issues - just started recently
I've been using the SmartWeather Station Tile for almost a year without issue. In the last few days, it has started showing me weather for a city in France. Upon investigation, I find that this town in France has the same postal code as my city in the U.S. The tile seems to go back and forth between the two. Where does this tile get its location information?
The zip code in the Tile Settings in ActionTiles is correct, and my SmartThings hub location is correct.
Hi Kevin,
Please remove the postal code entirely. SmartThings has recently changed the Weather API. The SmartWeather Station Tile should be taking coordinates from your hub's location.
Option to temporarily highlight recently changed tiles
The ideas that I am submitting has been submitted in the past but was withdrawn with the release of some near-hit styling options that met the need, sort of (see link below). In my opinion it would be very useful to add a feature that would let you see, at a glance, which tiles have recently changed; either in the form of a short-lived pulse of the tile or a dark-to-normal color fade over n seconds.
It was said in the previous idea that people are not vigilantly watching their dashboards for updates. Although true I feel that an increasing amount of people will increasingly begin relying on dashboards for security and presence monitoring. I can think of many situations where this could be useful for events of both low and high priority. There is a current option to use different colors based on intentions, this would get closer to satisfying the this idea's feature-request if it had a time restriction on when the "warn" color is to be used. Example - for most of the day I would like my garage's presence sensor to just show me if it is occupied (low priority), but after 10pm if when I am back home it would be a problem if presence was detected (high priority). Having a dashboard with 30+ tiles I may not see at first glance that a room was just occupied when it should not be.
At night when I am in my office I do monitor outside motion and indoor presence, some would say vigilantly - while concentrating on my work with with my device visible out of the corner of my eye, I notice somethings has changed but takes a bit to figure out what did change and if it matters. A temporary pulsing or darker-shaded tile would allow to me to look over and then back to my screen without breaking my thoughts or typing rhythm.
Dan
Previous idea that was withdrawn:
Confirmation when deleting an item from My Media
I'm going to throw this in the bug column.... there is no "are you sure" confirmation when you click on "delete" when editing items from MyMedia. You click "delete" its just gone. I've accidentally deleted things three times because of this.
Weather Tile missing main current condition icon
Due to Weather Underground's change of their API policy and SmartThings not updating their "Smart Weather Tile Device" to be fully compatible, you may find that ActionTiles official Weather Tiles do not display a "primary current condition" icon.
We are investigating...
...Terry.
Actiontiles Kiosk Plus License
Slide-Up drawer visibility duration
Possibility to adjust the duration that the pop-up stays open. Currently, I find that it stays open for too long.
And SHM keypad, the numbers are too small.
Add 2nd camera feed to AT?
Hi there...
I have a Reolink NVR + 4 Camera kit... I purchased TinyCam Pro, and followed TaylorTech's Youtube on how to set up into AT... although his video was for WyzeCams.
I added the IP address ... and log in and password, and Camera 1 showed up in TinyCam app... and also in the TinyCam web browser as per TaylorTech did..
But... my problem is that if I do it the way TaylorTech has, and entered the same details for my second cam, but changing to channel 2 for the second cam... it shows camera 1's feed... so end up with 2 feeds showing from same camera.
I went to AT and added Camera 1 into my panel, and it shows up perfect... so I am doing that right.
Am I right in thinking that the IP is for the NVR and it is only able to show the first camera? Or is there something blatantly obvious that I am missing?
I'm unsure what other details you guys may need to assist, and did not want to ramble on with the whole set up... so ask away if you need any further info.
"Active" Intention for Panel Link Tiles
Can a Media tile actually do anything, or be a shortcut? I'd like to set up a navigation UI, using image media tiles, that are clickable, to navigate from one panel to the next. I was going to edit the graphics so you could tell which panel was "Active" at the time. Here's a very rudimentary mock up with the first icons I could find.
I started making the tiles and then I realized it was a moot point if they weren't clickable.
As a secondary option, can we assign a panel intention to a shortcut tile? If that was the case, I could essentially accomplish the same thing, and use the tile intention as the means of telling which panel is displayed.
Moon phase Media Tile links
Just wanted to share these 2 links I found for moon phases. The first is a computer generated image that only has 8 different moon phases (about 3-4 days for each phase) but the new moon and possibly the full moon phases stay for a half day max. The second link is a navy provided link that provides an actual image of the literal moon that they seem to update everyday.
Link 1 (Computer Generated) :
http://www.moonphaseinfo.com/moon.php
Link 2 (Navy Moon Image) :
Zmodo Camera
What is the latest on the Zmodo camera?. Do they work well they with ActionTile? Can you show multiple Zmodo's on Action Times at same time? Thanks in advanced
Blue Iris NVR Controls Integration (iFrame?)
I was looking to follow what others were doing on this previous topic: https://support.actiontiles.com/communities/12/topics/1072-blue-iris-support but I was not wanting the video to be directly displayed, and I wanted to allow for the use of the web based NVR to be used. Blue Iris (BI) houses all my cameras, too many to display in tiles and I didn't want to manage links to them all... :|
I found that BI has a built in web NVR control that I can link to. If you use the following format and set the url link tile to "Open shortcut in the same window", it loads perfectly.
URI: http://WANIP:PORT/ui3.htm?user=USERNAME&pw=PASSWORD
I am using Kindle Fire 8" for my ActionTiles setup.
Garage Door Tile no longer providing confirmation dialog
I've noticed that the Confirmation dialog box for my garage door tile no longer appears. It just opens and closes with a single tap. This has caused a few accidental openings. I used windows/chrome/edge and android/chrome. This used to work as expected, but doesn't any longer. Can you help me get it back?
Worried about closing it on someone or opening again in the middle of the night.
I've tried deleting and adding the tile back. Thanks, Ken
While we are investigating, please use Security / PIN Protection to your Garage Door Tiles.
Thanks.
Blue Iris support
Opening this thread to explore the option to officially support Blue Iris security Cameras software.
- BI is the most used and popular security cameras software out there.
- It has its own authentication and also support https.
- Would be awesome to have official support for it and eliminate the need to redirect RTSP by using VLC or opening different ports and exposing each camera separately.
- Having BI Support is something i personally would LOVE to see.
Working Solution for Blue Iris Integration into Action Tiles that features;
- Over standard HTTPS with User / Pass Authentication
- More than 6 cameras coming from same BI server
- Full MJPG
For the TLDR version, basically run Apache web server as a reverse proxy to the BI server and have multiple sub domains reverse peroxided to BI, with each one supporting 6 concurrent connections in Chrome.
Now in in depth how my setup works:
1) Blue Iris is configured as below:
2) Apache's httpd-ssl.conf file is configured as follows. (Only relevant sections, not full httpd-ssl.conf file!)
3) Urls used with Action Tiles:
First 6 Cams: https://cctv.mydomain.com/mjpg/ShortCamName/video.mjpg?user=BIUSER&pw=BIPASSWORD
Next 6 Cams: https://cctv2.mydomain.com/mjpg/ShortCamName/video.mjpg?user=BIUSER&pw=BIPASSWORD
And that is pretty much it; however it is worth noting:
- I use https://www.sslforfree.com/ for generating the Apache SSL certificates.
- I only have 9 cams, so only need two sub-domains. Additional sub domains can of course be created, with each one supporting 6 concurrent connections to the BI server.
I suspect Chrome regards each sub-domain (what is then reverse peroxided to the BI server) as a
separate destination/resource/server.
- I have a static WAN IP, however you may use a DDNS service if you don't have access to a static WAN IP.
- The domains; cctv.mydomain.com and cctv2.mydomain.com have their DNS A records set to my WAN IP.
- My Router/Firewall has Port 80 and Port 443 opened to the local IP of my Apache web server. (Same physical server as BI)
Hope someone finds this useful!
Bigger PIN pad - full screen zoomed
Is there a way to make the pin pad on the locked tiles appear full screen? My fat fingers 🖐️ keep hitting the wrong numbers.
Tiles that are 2 rows tall with single row tiles next to them.
I've been trying to figure out if it is possible and have seen an example on the main page. I'm trying to create a multi row tile that blend with single rows.
my current panel has (3) 3x2 tiles at the top and I'm trying to create two rows of tiles with the 3x2 radar tile at the end of both.
I apologize if I missed this topic in the forum.
Samsung 9350 Powerbot Vacuum
Does anyone know if you can add a tile to see the powerbot vacuum? Perhaps just to see the status of it, but controlling it would be great too. I just purchased one and it is now setup in the SmartThings application. I can see it from the IDE page and from my phone's SmartThings app.
I'm trying to get it on the action tiles page but unfortunately it isn't showing up as anything I can add. Does anyone have any experience with this? Is it even doable? Thanks!
HTML video feed login using ActionTiles Fire App
Just downloaded the new ActionTile app for the Fire tablet and noticed there is no way to view camera feeds because you can't log in to the feed. I know this was an issue with Chrome and trying to embed user/password and was wondering if it is the same with the new app and Fire OS.
Power Cost Tile for HEM Home Energy Meter devices
I would like to have a tile showing cost for my Home Energy Monitors. Ask Alexa is capable of doing it, and it is available in the IDE. Below is a Screenshot of my IDE.
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