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I just installed the Android app "Audify" on my Nexus 9 tablet that runs my ActionTiles panel. Now whenever I get any SmartThings push notifications, the announcement is made through my tablet's speaker. For now it announces when any of my homes outside doors are opened and also when someone opens my mailbox. You can even cast announcements to all your Google Home speakers.
My cheap Chinese tablet battery has bit the dust and I can't find another to replace it. So, I'm going to buy an Amazon Fire tablet to run ActionTiles!
My question is: Can I set it up to display a photo slideshow screensaver like I did with the old Windows tablet?
Does anyone have experience charging a tablet with a solar panel in a window? I am mounting a Fire 7 next to my kitchen door and due to the construction of the exterior walls, there is no good way to install an outlet. My thought is getting a solar panel to hang in the window and try to charge like that. I know the power output is decreased when behind glass but I don't know what would be a good quality panel to use.
Is it possible to add a stream of photos to a tile?
I have photos in Apple iCloud and would like to have a rotation of images in a tile next to some Smartthings controls to build a dashboard come photo frame.
I have tried the urls for the shared iCloud albums, and also the urls for a DakBoard i also use, but i can't get ActionTiles/Smartthings on the same screen.
Is there a possibility to get an option to get a pop up question if you are sure you want to do an action? I have created a routine, "panic button" which turns on the sirens, all the lights and locks the doors.
It would be nice to get an "are you sure you want to do this" confirmation to prevent accidental pressing. I currently have it pin protected, but that could be to cumbersome in an actual emergency. Thank you!
I'm looking for a way to integrate our Owlet monitor into our Smartnursery. For those who are unaware, an Owlet is a small monitor that fits on a newborn's foot to monitor body temperature, motion, etc. when a parent is in another room/away, and can send alerts to smart phones. Our twins are medically fragile, as they came a little early, so tracking medical data may prove useful if provided to a doctor. I would love to see a way to receive the data from the Owlet base and then plot on a timeline and store the data for a tile. I've seen Python scripts on Github that are simple graphing/data storage methods, so I was wondering if anyone else had any experience or ideas with this!
I find the three eclipses on the thermostat tiles to be hard to target on smaller displays and unintuitive for some. It would be nice to have the option to forgo +/- and the “...” and have it set to just pop up the control draw for the thermostat on topping the tile.
Hi Everyone - loving ActionTiles and have a tablet permanently mounted in the kitchen for monitoring, weather and lighting scene control. We have a turtle that gets fed once every 2 days - but it's easy to forget which day she was fed and difficult to know if someone else fed her already.
I was thinking ActionTiles could help here. Two possible designs;
1. A tile that lights up at a pre-programmed time every other day. Pressing the tile would turn it off. Smartthings can almost do this as a routine (turn on a virtual switch at a certain time). The limitation is that it can't do "every other day" only specific days of the week).
2. A calendar view that highlights every other day with a way to check off the highlighted days somehow.
Does anyone have an idea on how to implement either option?
SmartThings has not provided SmartApps (like ActionTiles) with the ability to directly Activate (trigger, call) a Scene.
Easy Workaround!
The easy workaround is to create a trivial "cover-Routine" for each one of your Scenes and have it trigger the Scene. Perhaps name these Routines "!Scene scene name" or "zScene scene name" so they are all grouped alphabetically in your Routines List.
You can then use these "Scene Routines" like any Routine:
As a Routines (plural) List Tile
and/or Individual Routine Tile(s)
Just like a Routine, a Scene is a "momentary pushbutton". It does not change state when you tap it. There is no "Scene On" / "Scene Off". A Scene is "activated" just as a Routine is "executed".
If SmartThings opens up a direct API to Scenes, we would make them their own new special Tile Type... though they would act the same as Routine Tiles anyway. We would just give them different default icons!
I run a local NVR (network video recorder), specifically Unifi Video, to record/manage several security cameras. I have set the action tiles to grab periodic jpeg image (1 per second) from the local server. However, I have noticed a significant amount of traffic being generated on my wifi network due to action tiles (way more than what I would expect by just updating SmartThings or pulling a single jpeg that is on the active screen). It appears that ActionTiles is actually uploading the jpeg files to some internet based location. The reason I have a local NVR is that I don't want the images uploaded to the cloud, but ActionTiles appears to do just that. How can I disable this?
But only one of them is available via the "Temperature Sensor" capability under attribute name "temperature". The other two are under different attribute names. I think this is somewhat of a flaw of the SmartThings device model, where SmartThings would consider it as three separate devices. It really isn't though - it's one device with three sensors.
WebCore has support for the additional attributes. I wonder if ActionTiles would consider adding support, where you could map an additional attribute name to one of the support capability types.
I've added it as both a temperature sensor (attic temp) and fan controller. For some reason, the fan status and temperature never update in ActionTiles. In fact, they don't seem to update in SmartThings either, unless I manually go into the device and click the Refresh button.
I noticed the device has the Refresh capability. Is it supposed to have the Polling capability as well? Or any idea what might be causing it not to update?
I am considering using ActionTiles for an iMac and 2 iPads. My question is, can each device have a different setup layout. I will be using the iMac and 1 iPad. My wife will be using the other iPad. She requires simplicity.
Useful App: Audify for announcements
LANnouncer functions?
