Happy Holidays, everyone!

Festive changes...

• More  icons  for Switches (lamps, seasonal, festive, holiday: Christmas, Menorah ... 🎄, 🌠, 🕎), Presence (vehicles).

Primary changes...

• Switch Tile: Show color picker when (Hue + Saturation) or (Color) Attribute is available.
• Fix battery indicator preference settings missing for some Tile types.
• Fix for 2x2 thermostat tile.
• Tile Options dialog GUI improvements.
• Shortcut options: open in new window/same window/dialog.
• Arrange Tiles mode automatically saves changes after every move.
  • This was the original behavior but had severe performance issues. Those have been resolved. Please test creating a new Panel and do lots of rearranging. Have fun observing the instantaneous updates to the live Panel viewed in a separate browser or on a Tablet sitting next to your PC...
• Added more button Tool Tips. Visible on mouse hover or by long-press.
• Prevent flash of false empty state indicator.

Further notes will be added here if we make incremental improvements. Significant issues reported in Comments may be spun off into new Bug, Usability, or Feature Request Topics.

We will update various open "Bug & Idea Topics" soon if their status has been affected.

All the best of the season to you and yours...

...Terry & Alex.

Major release!

This is a big one, folks...

As you know, the ability to customize Panel "styles" is a very popular wish-list item. This update only offers a few more customer-facing controls for styling; but it updates the underlying Style-Engine subsystem as a powerful new foundation for future customization abilities. You will immediately see a change in the appearance of various elements the Tiles on your Panels (and some behavior changes too). Themes have been improved and have previews. We will soon add color customization.

ActionTiles Facelift...

• All Tiles are resizable (new: weather, thermostat, music player, blank, mode).

• New icon selection for Switch, Contact, Presence, Panel, Momentary Switch, Valve, Shortcut, Motion.  Halloween icons  for Switches. Boo!

• Introducing “Tile Intentions”. Chose individual Tile appearance based on Thing state. Chose from Info, Normal, Accent and Warn Intentions.

• Preferences for Tile Size, Tile Header, Footer and Tile Content, Tile Spacer and Tile Corner Radius.

• Added Panel Style Page that now contains Panel appearance preferences.

• Added Tile samples to preview Panel Themes.

• Added 8 new themes. New themes are High Visibility variants of existing themes.

Improved Panel Layout

• Improve initial Panel drawing animation.

• Improved Tile layout, fonts and icons are size optimized for viewing. Tile Content scales with Tile Size.

• Tile Header and Tile Footer are now center aligned.

• Panel Tile is now an anchor rather than button (improved navigation, support for right click, middle click, shift+click, etc).

• Numeric Tile values are rounded off to the maximum of 2 decimal places.

• Some redundant header/footer elements are removed.

• Tile Overflow button pushed towards the edge of the Tile.

• Improved consistency between Tiles.

• Tile Spacer is applied around Tilesets.

Tile Changes

• Thermostat Tiles lost Humidity value, added Fan Operating State instead. If required, humidity Tile can be added separately, because humidity is not a standard Thermostat property.

• Thermostat Tile support setpoint changes by 0.5 degrees (new Tile preference).

• The bottom drawer of Music Player shows controls dynamically based on current state of the player.

• Battery icon in Tile footer will not display the numeric value anymore and will not be highlighted when battery is low (improves GUI consistency, aim is to make Tiles more streamlined). Users are welcome to setup a Panel dedicated to battery statuses.

• Added battery icons to more Tile footers, where applicable.

• New icons for CO, Motion Sensor, Momentary Button Tiles.

• Added support for CO2 (carbon dioxide) Capability.

• Power, Energy, Illuminance, CO2 Measurement's unit of measure is moved to the footer, because there is no space alongside the value.

Performance

• Faster loading time. Reduce memory usage.

• Improve Media Tile initial loading.

Miscellaneous

• Removed auto-focus on input fields throughout the app

• Panel Builder shows Tile dimensions.

• Removed Toast Notification when changing Panel Preferences. Changes are saved transparently.

• Location Viewer renamed to Location Inventory.

We will update various open "Bug & Idea Topics" soon if their status has been affected.

Thank-you!!!
...Terry & Alex

I think I know the answer to this but I'm going to post anyway.  I'm trying to set up live traffic feeds with no luck.   All the state camera links in Connecticut are "https", not "http".

Am I correct in thinking that ActionTiles does not support "https" media feeds?

Thanks, Jeff

where I try to put the kindle in kiosk mode with fully send a message to go to home app settings, but when I go to the setting the kindle setting crash ... there is no way to activate the kiosk mode;(

Is there a way to make the "activate full screen" functionality a tile?

I would like to know if we can add a feature to change panel themes from one to another (eg. Elements to Slate) based on LUX, Time of day our Routine (Modes). This will help my tablet mounted on wall to be visible based on the time of day (lighting) so it can be seen best with appropriate background.

Hello!

I have a Fortress Siren Strobe Alarm device that is linked to ST,But i am not getting all the options in AT.

Capability "Alarm" to both show the active or inactive state of strobing and/or alarming, as well as the ability to activate and/or test would be great, please.

https://smartthings.developer.samsung.com/develop/api-ref/capabilities.html#Alarm

attributes:
  alarm:
    schema: AlertState
    type: ENUM
    values:
    - both
    - 'off'
    - siren
    - strobe
commands:
  both:
    arguments: [
      ]
  'off':
    arguments: [
      ]
  siren:
    arguments: [
      ]
  strobe:
    arguments: [
      ]

Thanks,

Sandy

Recently I have purchased a Samsung R1 Speaker and added it to my Smartthings environment and immediately after added it to my smart tiles app.

While I can easily change the speaker volume using the smartthings app, it doesn't look like changing the volume in the smart tile is making any impact on the speaker.

I do able to stop / play the music via the smart tile, the problem is only related to managing the volume via the smart tile (your application).

In addition, while adding this speaker to the smart tile, I have got another tile "Samsung R1 - Switch" (couldn't find any related switch in my smartthings app) - It doesn't look like this switch is affecting the speaker in any way - 

Am I missing something ?

When a Color is selected in ActionTiles, we execute setColor( [ hue, sat, hexString ] ):

• Our "hexString" is currently formatted with incorrect syntax, and it is deprecated anyway. We send decimal values in the string instead of hex: i.e., we send "#2550255" instead of "#FF00FF" for example.

Workaround

• Color control should function correct if the Device Type Handler accepts setColor( hue, sat ) and discards the redundant unnecessary Attribute "color".
• If you are using a non-WWST (Works With SmartThings) device, please contact the developer of the DH to ensure they discard a redundant "color" value and have Hue and Saturation take precedence.

One of the key components of the ActionTiles cloud (outsourced to Google Cloud Services) had a major outage on Wed Feb 14th, approx 5:45am to 7:20am PST.

• This resulted in the app not loading at all, black screens, empty Panels, and/or Panels not functioning properly.
• We may also post updates on https://status.ActionTiles.com and Twitter.

Please pardon the late problem report. We spent the morning making sure everything was running normally and researching the issue with the cloud provider vendor.

We apologize for the temporary inconvenience, 

...Terry & Alex.

PS: Please be assured that outages of this type have been extremely rare and short. Roughly only 4 times in 11 months; including issues caused by SmartThings platform full or partial outages. SmartThings is generally super helpful in staying in constant communication with us and ensuring complete resolution.

Two of the key components of the ActionTiles cloud (provided by Google!) are having intermittent outages at this time.

• This may result in the app not loading at all, black screens, and/or Panels not functioning properly.
• We and our provider are investigating. Please follow this here Topic for updates.
• We may also post updates on https://status.ActionTiles.com and Twitter.

It must be Cyber Monday Madness out there 😱😢.

We apologize for the temporary inconvenience, 

...Terry & Alex.

PS: I know it doesn't help in this moment, but be assured that outages of this type have been extremely rare and short. Roughly only 3 times in 9 months. The only major issue was on the SmartThings side for about two hours one evening; but they were super helpful in staying in constant communication with us and ensuring complete resolution.

Sorry folks!

Currently ActionTiles users may experience problems logging in or find that the Panel configurations are blank or missing.

We are researching this with the cloud component vendor. A similar outage occurred around 1200h PT earlier today and lasted only 10 minutes. Hoping that is the case for this second occurrence.

You can follow this Topic for updates.

Honestly, our platform has been so "rock-solid" that we are not yet utilizing https://status.ActionTiles.com (but we will update it if this outage is not resolved soon).

We apologize for the service interruption and inconvenience.

In the panel builder, change the icon from the default, to the custom one it was changed to

I'm newbie, first post. Having stability issues with MJPEG video stream on iPhone. Video works fine on Amcrest video app no problem or VLC player but only works randomly via ActionTiles.

sometimes video stream runs perfect then several minutes later the video will stop working for the remainder of the day for seemingly no reason..... not sure if user error or software issue.  

Appreciate any help that can be provided !!!

Just a few touches today, folks:

• Battery indicator Tile Footer (for Tile types that support a Battery indicator) now has Tile Settings preference option (icon, percentage, both, none):
  
• Fix: when battery is actually 0%, show battery indicator/percentage
• Fix for Quartz Tileset title font color hard to read
• Fix for Shortcut Tiles break when given custom label on a Panel
• Fix for unable to delete panel
• Energy, power, temperature tiles have preference to show decimals. off be default
• Mug icon added
• Temperature tile to show up to two decimals

We will update various open "Bug & Idea Topics" soon if their status has been affected.

Thank-you!!!
...Terry & Alex

Looking for a way to turn a certain tile red when active.  Can I make a certain tile high priority so it pops more?   As you can see, I have a goodly amount of tiles but sometimes I miss important ones (like front Door Bell Ring or Garage Tilt Sensor). 

Is there a way to remove blank space in this screenshot? In this page I have 3 tilesets and no blank tiles.Screen Shot 2018-02-09 at 13.34.35.png

Tiles that are tappable like buttons/lights/routines can only be tapped.

But what if we allow them to be swiped to trigger?  Sometimes buttons near the edge of the screen may be accidentally tapped or tapped in the pocket of your mobile device.  Swiping may prevent that.

This leads to another idea.  Combining multiple tiles to fit in the same x y coordinate but differ in the z level.  They can swipe up down left or right. To trigger the tile.

This could be useful for mobile defices that have limited screen real estate.

My idea for a UI would look like stacked scrabble tiles with the edges visible.  If the tile behind is capable of changing states they would be slightly visible.

Some language keyboards do something like this.  The iOS Japanese kana keyboard has a 3x3 keyboard

You can tap the あ to insert a あ or you can swipe あ left to get い

Imagine using this for different lighting scenes.  You’d be able to include a lot without taking too much space.

Anyone think this is a interesting idea?

Hi there guys,

I'm using a device type to collect data on my solar edge solar array, it can be found here - https://github.com/strelitzia123/SmartThings/blob/master/devicetypes/Solaredge/solaredge.groovy

For some reason when authorising devices in my home, the device for solar edge is not showing, thus i can't show anything in action tiles of current solar production. How would i go about getting this data onto my action tiles?

I have some other global variables I've set in WebCoRE, so i can automate my house when production is low, or when electricity prices are high. Currently the two variables I have is $solarproductionkw and $wholesalespotprice ; i'd like to put these onto tiles displayed at all times and even try change the colour of them depending on value if at all possible.

Any help would be much appreciated.

I've been plagued with issues streaming my cameras for a while now, and every now and then I try to do some more investigation to see what I can come up with.

Today I discovered something about Cache Control, and wanted to know if ActionTiles was configured to present media in a format that blocked caching, so that the loading page would never try to open the file from cache, or even store the file to cache.

https://pixelchinchilla.com/2017/05/diy-video-monitoring-system-part-iv-video-streaming-using-mjpeg/

I'm no expert, so I apologise if I'm going over ground already covered.

when I "curl" the address of my panel, I don't see the suggested content headers (although I know my curl isn't logged in to the panel)

Cheers,

Adam