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Discuss & Vote

Set target screen size to help Panel building on Desktop for mobile

Bergstrom, Gunnar 7 years ago in Configuration & Settings updated by Neflhiem 7 years ago 3

Great that you can edit panels in a web browser and view those panels on any device. I would like to make a suggestion that when editing in a desktop web browser an option is provided to set the screen size you are editing so that the tiles maintain the same order and sequence as they would on the device that Action Tiles will be displayed on. Perhaps something like 2048 x 1536 pixels for an Ipad Air being displayed in Landscape mode. No need to have a list of every screen size - just let user enter pixel height and width.

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Show Energy Cost of Power Outlet

vick s. 7 years ago in Things & Capabilities updated by Den 7 years ago 4

Hello,


So I would really love to know how much a certain light or lights is costing me and have a question. 

would it be possible to add something like this:

 

User when adding a new tile say a light switch, enters the watts of the given light bulb or bulbs or whatever, then enters average cost of their electricity say .12 cents a kilowatt 


  • User enters 1 time electricity cost of .12 cents a killowatt
  • User adds a switch or whatever 
  • Master bedroom (has 4 light bulbs each 10 watts ) so user enters 40 watts 
  • now action tiles will calculate amount of cost and show daily weekly lifetime and so on cost of master bedroom lights 

This would be amazing since it would only have to be entered once by the user and user will constantly have a ballpark idea of their homes electric usage / cost . 


Honestly i would love love to know how much my kids leaving their lights on all the time is costing me lol , or even better how much my outside lights being on all night are costing me and say turning them off 30 minutes sooner or later would save me how much ? 

 

Sorry for long post 

Thank you ActionTiles team your product is amazing and i have the purchased license!

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Answered

How do I permanently get rid of my browser header?

Den 7 years ago in Browsers Tablets Phones / Android updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 3

Stays at top of my panel of my Android tablet.

Answer
  1. What brand & model Tablet, and OS Version?
  2. What browser?

In general, if you are using relatively recent OS with Chrome from Play Store, just use the "Add to Home Screen" option from the Chrome menu. The icon that gets created will launch in immersive full screen mode.


This won't work on Amazon Fire; so we recommend Fully there (and, in general, Fully is quite useful...).

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Answered

Things cloning details from other Tilesets

snowmansmartie 7 years ago in Things & Capabilities updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 3

Hi all,


I'm very new to the ActionTiles App, like 10mins new!!


I have created my 1st Panel with several Tilesets so far.


I have a Tileset for Battery Monitoring for Sensors and another Tileset for Temperatures from Sensors.


I have noticed that when I setup the 2nd Temps Tileset it cascaded the information from the Battery Monitoring Tileset.


Is there a way to stop this as I want to monitor everything separately.  Yes I am OCD with these sorts of things ;).


If there is a way around this or to stop it, any help would be greatly welcomed.


Cheers


James

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Planned

Make Mode Tile resizable

Craig Thomas 7 years ago in Panels (dashboards) / Special Tiles updated by Alex (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 2

Is there any way to resize the mode tile?


For some reason it is 2 wide with no option (that I see) to resize.


All my mode names are short. Would love to make it 1x1.

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Set Switch Tile state without sending physical change?

I'm not sure if this is a DTH or Tile type. I want a virtual tile (let's say switch) that controls multiple device (Easy with webCoRE), but if one of the devices that is controlled by that virtual switch changes state, I want the Action Tile to change state to On (without turning on the other devices controlled by simulated switch) thus allowing that device to turn off with simulated switch.


I hope I'm making sense

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Thermostat Tile icon could indicate mode and reduce need for dual-Tile?

Moe 7 years ago in Panels (dashboards) / Special Tiles 0

Hello all...


Functionality is great, but perhaps now we don't need the 2 separate tiles for heating and cooling, but there is no way to tell what mode it's on, so maybe the icon could change to reflect that, also the size of fan status does not change with the tile size as the temperature in the middle does, thanks.


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On Hold: Discussion Open

Would love to see actiontiles as as a skill for amazon alexa show!

Matt S 7 years ago in Browsers Tablets Phones updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 3

So Amazon just released the echo show.  This was my first purchase in the echo line and so far I think its great.  There's on thing that would make it better!  If actiontiles could work on it!  Unfortunately they don't have a browser for it.  It looks like everything that works on it needs to be an echo "skill".  I have no idea what is involved in developing a skill, but it would be great if you guys looked at doing this.  Seems the community has a lot of echo users, so I imagine something like this would be useful for many. I'd even pay an added fee for it!


Thanks for listening!

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Discuss

Harmony Hub just Volume Control?

Andres 7 years ago in Panels (dashboards) / Special Tiles updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 3

There is a way to control only the Volume function in the remote not only activities? The idea is create a Tile with Volume Up/Down.. Thanks a lot!

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Fixed

How to share to family or Buddies using additional Accounts?

dalec 7 years ago in Panels (dashboards) / Sharing updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 2 1 duplicate

I read that I can have family members access my ActionTiles account. I am not sure exactly how I am supposed to do that. I had my wife request a subscription to ActionTiles and then she verified the email account; is that the intended method for setting up all my family members so they can access my ActionTiles on their on mobile phones? This is a lot different than the old method.

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Fixed

SHM status not updating (probably due to SmartApp Mode Filter usage)

Nathan Davis 7 years ago in Panels (dashboards) / Special Tiles updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 10

Hello. I noticed this morning that ActionTiles is not updating my SHM status. If I disarm or arm from the SmartThings app, ActionTiles does not reflect the change. I can still control the SHM from ActionTiles and it works fine, but I thought ActionTiles automatically reflected the changes from the smartapp, at least I think it was since before this morning. Thanks.

Answer

Thanks again for all that experimentation and research, Nathan!

If I set any options in "Set for specific mode(s)" in the smartapp that is what causes the SHM to read incorrectly.

Unfortunately the "Set for specific mode(s)" option on the SmartApp preference page (and all the automatic mode filtering functionality that option affects) is entirely outside of our control.


The "mode filter" option is automatically appended to any "basic" SmartApp (and we kept our SmartApp "basic" to maximize its efficiency and ensure it was "Works with SmartThings"™ approvable). We have no control over how it works (or how its use may adversely affect ActionTiles!).


We will look into revising the SmartApp to try to remove this option in the future, but in the meantime, all we can say is: Do not use the "Set for specific mode(s)" option of the "ActionTiles V6 (Connect)" SmartApp!


We will post a Knowledge Base article in this regard.


Thank-you,

...Terry.

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Implemented

PIN pad and/or Password for SHM

Kevin1 8 years ago in Security updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 35 1 duplicate

Requesting a popup numeric keypad control that would be required to disarm the Smart Home Monitor (SHM).

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Discuss & Vote

Reusable master Tilesets copied by reference & kept synchronized

Michael Stroh 8 years ago in Panels (dashboards) updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 1 2 duplicates

I can see the usefulness of this. I have four rooms where I would want tablets installed to host dashboards. All would have some items in common, each would have some items unique to that room. I don't have so many "things" that it would be overbearing to create each from scratch, but it would be easier if I could have a common container (Tileset) that only has to be edited at one place to take effect on all dashboards.

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Implemented

View only as a Tile setting (similar to View only Panel Sharing)

brian gudauskas 7 years ago in Configuration & Settings updated by Alex (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 3

Add a setting during tile add/edit to show the tile "view only" locking out changing. This is useful where you want switch/routine/alarm/things to be added as status only tile.

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Closed

RELEASE v6.5.0 deployed: Panel copy, Tileset copy, and Individual Tile size options...

Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago in Announcements / Release Notes updated 7 years ago 12

Featured enhancements...

  • Make a Copy of entire Panel (use the Panel Builder's menu)
  • Copy a Tileset to another Panel (use a Tileset's menu)
  • More individual Tile Settings in Panel Builder, including dimension multiples (use the Tile's menu)
  • Large Clock Tiles
  • New icons are used for each of Smart Home Monitor (SHM) mode. SHM mode selection is now a slide-up-drawer (like a dimmer or Routines selection)
  • Music Player Tile: Play & Pause, Play & Stop are reversed to more common app conventions (i.e., shows "pause" button when playing, etc.)

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


Overview:

  • Some additional tweaks, wording / spelling fixes, and various back-end improvements.

Note:

  • This is an update of the front-end web app only. The SmartApp "ActionTiles (Connect) V6", ie the connector to SmartThings, is unaffected. The SmartApp will change very rarely; but, this time, we actually do have a pending SmartApp deployment.
  • The version number of the front-end web app is found on the upper right corner of the Login Page and in the About section of in-app Help.
  • You will all receive the update automatically and simultaneously as we force a "reload" of the web page after deployment.
  • You can use in the Reload App button if you suspect your browser did not refresh to this version.
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On Hold: Discussion Open

Media Tile Stream has stopped working

needlerp 7 years ago in Media Tiles / Video Camera Feeds updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 3

I've been very successfully viewing a media stream of my Synology Surveillance Station for the last month or so, but it's suddenly stopped working in Action Tiles - the preview no longer displays the stream either. I know the URL is correct as a can copy and paste it into safari and it streams straight away.


Anybody any ideas what might have changed? The stream is in the following format:

https://[URL]:5001/webapi/SurveillanceStation/videoStreaming.cgi?api=SYNO.SurveillanceStation.VideoStream&method=Stream&version=1&_sid=[sid]&cameraId=3&format=mjpeg

Answer
needlerp 7 years ago

Thanks. Looks as though the SSL certificate on my server has expired, so it's giving an error - console pointed it out for me!

Answer

Hi Darold,


The Rachio Device Type Handler (DTH) you have depicted is apparently non-compliant with SmartThings's specifications for Capability "Valve".


The value for Valve must be either "open" or "closed" (not "close"; the attribute value is missing the trailing letter "d").


Please contact the developer of the Device Type Handler to have them correct it.


...Terry.

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Problem Withdrawn

Confirming Safari on iOS 4.2.1 (Gen2 iPod touch) is not Compatible

kroyster 7 years ago in Browsers Tablets Phones / Apple updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 5

Update for your browser compatibility notes: My 2nd generation iPod Touch worked with SmartTiles, but no longer works with ActionTiles.  It is running iOS 4.2.1 and cannot update further, nor can I install any other browsers from the app store.  The behavior is that the login page will not display, so I cannot authenticate to access my panels. I have no idea if the panels would work post-auth.

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Discuss & Vote

Panel Navigation Tile for small screens

Bergstrom, Gunnar 7 years ago in Panels (dashboards) / Special Tiles updated by JB Bentz 7 years ago 2

When using a small screen, it might make sense to have an additional Panel Navigation tile option that works like the initial Routines tile, where you press the tile and get a list of which panel you would like to navigate to. Otherwise, setting up multi-panel navigation on a small screen takes up a lot of screen space or causes a lot of scrolling.

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Declined

Google Music Tile

Nick D'Auria 7 years ago in Panels (dashboards) / Special Tiles updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 2

Hello, is there a way to add support for google music? Even just for basic playback like pause and close which displays normally on the top bar of an android device if streaming using a google device. Ideally it would be more robust like the ability to pick a playlist if possible.