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Ring Doorbell - Fully - Tablet - ActionTiles

jgirvine 6 years ago in Browsers Tablets Phones / Android updated by JB Bentz 6 years ago 9

I am getting a Ring Pro for Christmas.  I currently have several tablets around the house that run Fully and ActionTiles.  After reading posts, it looks like I can not integrate Ring and AT... but, can I set the tablets to automatically switch to the Ring App if there is an alert?  Thanks

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Change the Tile color for the currently Active Routine?

Brian B 6 years ago in Colors Icons Fonts Themes updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 6 years ago 1

I have multiple time of day routines that switch on/off at staggered times throughout the week.  While I am away its difficult to discern which routine is currently active from a glance at the tileset since all my routine tiles appear the same color.   A great feature is my door sensor appears based on state, both the icon and color can be set to create a hi-viz alert of the door state, is there any way to do the same with time of day routines (or routines in general) ?

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Android Notifications when using Fully Kiosk Mode?

JB Bentz 6 years ago in Browsers Tablets Phones / Android updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 6 years ago 0

Has anyone ever figured out a way to actually pull down the notification pane, when Fully was in Kiosk Mode?  I"m wondering if there is a setting that allows it, or something we can whitelist that will permit it.  I haven't had any success yet though.

Android Fire
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Discuss & Vote

Media Tiles are changing image proportions

Rob Cummings 6 years ago in Media Tiles updated by JB Bentz 6 years ago 3

Images in tiles shouldn't be stretched to fit the width and height of the tile. Rather, they should either fill the tile with a width of 100% OR a height of 100% but not both. See below... Weather map, web camera, weather forecast, and travel time are all stretched out of their original/native proportion.


Image 1583


Also:

In the case of the weather map and web camera, a tile proportion of 3:2 is not the same as the image proportion of 4:3.

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Implemented

Christmas Lights Icons?

Hello, can ActionTiles, please make Christmas tree, Outdoor Christmas lights and other Christmas appliances labels, so it is less confusing when people see it.


I would also like to have the option to enlarge or decrease the font size of the tile label (Tile Header font). 


--

Justin
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Fixed

Tile settings scroll bar

Al E 6 years ago in Configuration & Settings updated by Alex (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 6 years ago 7

After setting up individual tiles in the tile builder when selecting the Tile Options next to the new tile, the "Tile Settings" pop up window appears but no longer has a scroll bar to scroll down to other options such as battery percentage or icon.

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Color code reference (HEX) for Built-in Themes?

Kpocius 6 years ago in Colors Icons Fonts Themes updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 6 years ago 1

Can you list the hex color codes for the various themes.  I'm setting up the jggdev weather forecast and would like to match the tile to the theme. 


Thanks!

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Discuss & Vote

Screensaver Feature

GavinCampbell 6 years ago in Panels (dashboards) updated by JB Bentz 6 years ago 4

Would it be possible to get some sort of screensaver feature.  My console is on my table and would make a nice digital picture frame when not in use.


A couple of possible ideas may be


1.  Just a simple blank screen so it can be touched as you approach it.

2.  After a certain time of inactivity make a picture media tile full screen and refresh it frequently.

3.  Load pictures from a file hosting service such as onedrive.  This may be too much to bother with.



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Deferred: Voting Open

Tile Icons Not updated in Panel Builder

cbabbman 6 years ago in Configuration & Settings updated by Alex (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 6 years ago 2

Changing the Icon for a tile does not update the icon shown next to the tile in panel builder. BUT, the icon is updated on the Panel when in View mode.


For example, I changed the icon for a Wemo switch in the panel builder to the xmas tree icon. In panel Builder, the icon next to the item is still showing as a switch. But when I run the panel on my device, it is shown as the xmas tree icon.


Seems to be common to any icon I attempt to change to.

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Implemented

Allow choice of "same tab" or "new tab" (default) for Shortcuts

Adam 7 years ago in Shortcut Tiles updated by Alex (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 6 years ago 8 1 duplicate

I find that Shortcut tiles are opening in new tabs (safari Mac & iPad)


This is frustrating, because if you're running Actiontiles in a fullscreen window on an iPad, it actually opens Safari on a new app, so you can't even just swipe back, or tab back.


Could this be an option on the Link Settings?

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Fixed

Color control not working (hue/sat vs color Attributes) SYLVANIA Osram A19 RGBW, Halo+ and others

Kory Breudigam 7 years ago in Things & Capabilities updated by Alex (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 6 years ago 37 4 duplicates
Hello,
I am currently setting up my Action Tiles and noticed something odd. I have a few RGBW LED controllers (H801) that I have added a switch tile for. When I click the "menu" icon ( 3 dots) of the tile I can change the color, works great! Now I also have a few RGBW Osram bulbs on the sale tile-set how ever I only have the light level adjustment slider when I click the menu, no color control. In my smartthings app I have full control of the color just like the LED driver. Any ideas?

Thank You!

Kory



EDIT (Terry):

2017-6-03: We confirmed that this occurs on some other devices, such as the Halo+ smoke & CO detector: i.e., It sets attribute values for Hue and Saturation, but not Color, and so is missing Color selection dialog on its light Switch Tile.


 

Answer

Oh! I was searching for "Osram" which isn't included in the text anywhere. 😞 ... Seriously... only the photograph says "Osram"; it is not mentioned anywhere in the text of that page! Ack?!


Thank-you for double-checking!


So the long & short story is...

  • SmartThings changed their published specifications on October 7, 2016. They didn't consult with the DTH or SmartApp developers to come to consensus.
  • According to the updated specs, the string or map (who knows these days!) attribute "color" is no longer defined as providing an RGB value in hex.
  • Instead, it is supposed to redundantly provide "hue" and "saturation" values in a map.
  • IMHO this is not a valid change. The Philips Hue still sends "#RRGGBB" as a single hex string, as do many other bulbs (your "clipboard.png") for example.

Regardless...

  • If we believe this new specification (and your example bulb helps support this...), then ActionTiles should consider "hue" and "saturation" to be sufficient to represent "supportable" Color Control Device.
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Edit Tile Titles (etc?) right in Builder list view

Brent 6 years ago in Configuration & Settings updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 6 years ago 0

Hello,


First off apologies if this has already been requested.  My request is that the ability to edit tile header / Title names be moved to the main panel builder screen currently you have to click the three dots next to a tile and then select edit tile.   What would make building panels so much faster, is if you could click on the name and edit the Tile header.  I included the screen shot below for reference to the area I would like to be able to edit.



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How to avoid blank on next row when using 2x or 3x height Tiles?

Joseph Choi 6 years ago in Panels (dashboards) updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 6 years ago 3

Hello. I just started a free trial and I’ve setup my tiles but I seem to be having some trouble. Whenever I set the tile height to 2 or 3 the entire row below gets pushed down and leaves an empty space that drives me nuts. Is there anyway to get around this? Thank you!

- Joe

Answer

Hi Joe,


I ought to experiment more with this, but I think some of our clever Customers will have some hints.


Do you have a simple example screenshot, please?


Thanks,

...Terry

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NVR that works with ActionTiles?

Michael Basic 6 years ago in Media Tiles / Video Camera Feeds updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 6 years ago 0

Hi there,


I've recently purchased an actiontiles license, and I've got my dashboards set up mostly the way I want them, but I'd really like to get my 3 camera feeds on my dashboards.  My cameras are wired with coax cable (wired them up when the house was under construction) and currently hook into a Nuvico Apex NVR.  I know this won't work because to view the cameras in a browser you have to log in to the nuvico applet thing...it doesn't accept credentials in a web address.


What I want to know is, is there some NVR I can purchase that will take my wired coax camera feeds and spit them out onto the interwebs in an mjpeg format that actiontiles can handle?  That would be the ideal solution for me...just replace my NVR with something that will work.


If that doesn't work, I see there's some talk about Blue Iris and how if you turn off security within your network you can see the cameras, so that might be a viable solution, but then I'm picking up a windows computer to use.


Otherwise I have to get new cameras?  Searching around the forums here, a lot of the info is old and there aren't really any clear answers that I can find.  I'd love some insight if anyone has a line on an NVR that would work for me.


By the way, I'm running actiontiles in Fully on some 7" kindle fires.

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Answered

national rail departure board

TimRW 6 years ago in Media Tiles updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 6 years ago 1

I would love to find a way to get this integrated into a media tile - Any one know of the best way to parse frames into a media tile.


https://traintimes.org.uk/live/dms

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Not a Bug

Water sensor not changing to warning Intent color

Mike Wayne 6 years ago in Colors Icons Fonts Themes updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 6 years ago 3

Added a water sensor. Chose "warn" for what to display when dry and "normal" for wet. Moved it to a dry location. It shows "Dry" ( which is correct) but keeps blue background not orange (incorrect).

Android Windows
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Closed: Duplicate Issue

Arlo still image snapshots (SMV) capability?

Josh Perlman 6 years ago in Media Tiles / Video Camera Feeds updated by Alex (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 6 years ago 3

I have multiple arlo wireless cameras set up and I’d like to see an updated snapshot every 10-15min on my AT interface...

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Discuss

Harmony Remote: How to turn OFF activities?

merrick777 6 years ago in Things & Capabilities / Non-"Works With SmartThings" devices updated 6 years ago 2

Posting this here in case there've been new developments since the last round of discussion on this topic about 9 months ago... Let me know if there's a more appropriate place to post ask....


So I want ActionTiles to have the ability to Turn OFF Harmony remote activities. No further abilities needed. Since it cannot connect to AT directly, I created a virtual switch in IDE. Then I created 3 routines in ST:

1) Turn ON the virtswitch, when any of activities a, b, or c, etc. go on.

2) Turn OFF the virtswitch, when any of activities a, b, or c, etc. go off.

3) Turn OFF any of activities a, b, or c, etc., when the virtswitch is turned off.

(Routines 1 & 2 are designed to keep the virtual switch in sync with whether or not any activities are running. Routine 3 allows me to put an AT button into tileset which will actively turn off harmony activities.

The problem: When I use the regular remote control (or Alexa) to turn ON an activity, that activity should go ON in the ST app -> Which would then trigger the routines -> which syncs the virtswitch to actual device status.... But I cannnot figure out why the activities in ST app are NOT going on as they should. The physical devices (tv, fios box, etc) are going on as they should, but the status isn't getting reflected in ST.  If I go into ST App -> In the harmony activity's options, when I hit the 'manual refresh' button, it DOES update to correct status (on) in ST (and therefore the routine runs and the ActionTile updates.  Any ideas why I would need to manually refresh?? Is there another way others have accomplished what I am trying to do??


(Note: I wanted to do this is webcore instead of ST, but I couldn't figure out how to write the piston with the options I was shown).

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Whitelist IP addresses for sharing without Login

Barry Murphy 6 years ago in Security updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 6 years ago 1

Would be handy if we could white list IP addresses to dashboards so no login is required.

Answer

This isn't an option within our security architecture, and we resist doing anything to reduce security — people tend to want even more security, not less.


Login is only required once (or rarely thereafter) due to long lasting secure session cookie. That's the most convenience we can offer for now.

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Mostly Answered: Topic Closed

Questions about Tile elements and layout chosen for v6.7.2

Nick D'Auria 7 years ago in Colors Icons Fonts Themes updated by Alex (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 6 years ago 8

I have a design question, how come you removed the battery percentage to streamline the design but left in the open/closed text. That info only has two variables and it is displayed in the icon status. The battery percentage is nice additional info that takes up minimal space. I actually wanted to put in a request to have a way to add more info to a single tile. Most of my door senors have a temperature also. I wanted to be able to have a single tile show temp and door status instead of having to split it up over 2 different tiles.  For me the tile space is extremely valuable as I try to fit everything on to one screen.   

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Nick,


With the introduction of Tile Intentions, it's now possible to have a tile with distinct states to be displayed with the same Intention and that would make the states indistinguishable. Also, some states icons are a little bit confusing and require a text label.


Battery levels are very transient values. They usually don't change often and not rapidly. They do, however, take up valuable space and distract from the primary value that needs to be monitored.


With the release 6.7, we tried to optimize and unify the layout of Tiles making the icons and text stand out and be legible from the distance. Tiles have limited real estate and it's impossible to squeeze all available device attributes into the same tile. Negative space is important for design too.


If you find it important to monitor the battery statuses closely, I recommend creating a dedicated Panel or Tileset to display these values.


The Battery Tiles have Info Intention by default. When the battery level drops below 25%, such tile will light up with Accent Intention and when the battery is depleted to below 5%, the tile will change color with Warn Intention.


Alex