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Not a Bug

Smart Home Monitor tile only showing armed status

Nathan Davis 7 years ago in Panels (dashboards) updated by Alex (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 3

Started yesterday morning. I've tried removing the tile and re-adding it, but still the same.


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Answer

Nathan, to change the alarm state, tap the tile to open drawer with available options.


This change is done to prevent accidental alarm status changes and to accommodate the upcoming Tile Security features.

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Not Reproducible

Routines Showing "*"

ChrstnMchl 7 years ago in Browsers Tablets Phones / Android updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 2

I have had it happen a couple times now, but only on my Android (and my wife's). I'm looking at right now. The specific routine does not show up and the tile just has * and says routine. On the desktop it is actually saying the name of the routine and has the routine symbol. When this happened before it eventually changed to what it should be so I think it might be a refresh issue?


Edit - hitting Reload in the options does get them to show up right.

+4
Deferred: Voting Open

Intercom feature (between Panels)

sec dom 7 years ago in Panels (dashboards) / Special Tiles updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 1

Intercom via a Tile intercom (not a shortcut for others app) for speak with other panel.   Ex.  Push on intercom Tile, choice kids panel or Kitchen panel and talk. If panel that would you talk  is open, you automatically hear voice.

Answer

This could certainly be a handy function in many households, and it is built into the hardware of quite a few some home control products out there (high-end, and some not yet on the market, like Amazon Alex "Show").


The complexity of this is beyond our scope at the moment. We're hoping that the workaround is for folks to run ActionTiles along with a built-in or 3rd party "intercom app" on the same device. If some particular implementations become popular, then we might save ourselves a lot of work if we can just integrate with them... provided that they have an open API.

+4
Declined

Alarm Panel - Exit Arming Delay

Peter 7 years ago in Security updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 1

Hi,


Would be great if the security panel could mimic a standard alarm panel when arming the monitoring system on exit where it would have a 45 or 60 or 90 second arming delay so you can close up and exit  the house.

This is more convenient that the phone, as:

1. my phone isn't glued to my hand

2. good chance you will get distracted and forget to arm the system

3. Probably just and "old school thing"


I've sent as a feature request to smartthings, but unlikely they will act on it.


+22
Fixed

Music or Sonos Player Tile is inconsistent (reverse) of industry standard media control and not intuitive

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

The AT Sonos tile shows current state of the player where the native Sonos and ST interfaces show what happens if you touch it.


Example - in AT if you have paused your Sonos - the AT tile shows pause. But if you look at the same player in Sonos or ST the image is a play button. You touch it and it plays.


Not being consistent with the "normal" interface can be confusing. Beyond this it is more confusing since it isn't consistent across the 3 buttons on the tile itself. The forward and back buttons do not show state, they show what happens if you touch them. The play/pause/stop button should be the same. Besides - state is shown in the description at the bottom of the tile "stopped, volume 45%"


The following are the Sonos App, SmartThings App, and ActionTiles Music Player Tile


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Please consider making this change or making it an option for users to pick how they want it to be for their panel.

Answer

Just to clear up any confusion...


The Music Player Tile was implemented the current way on purpose, in order to be consistent with every other ActionTiles Tile.

Every Tile that is a "control or command Tile" (i.e., is clickable), shows the current State of the Thing, not the next State. For example...

  • A Switch that is Off will show that it is Off and tapping it will turn it On and show that it is On.
  • A Garage Door that is Open will show that it is Open and tapping it will Close it.

Therefore:

  • A Music Player that is Playing will show that it is Playing (▶️) - i.e,. the current State, rather than showing Pause (⏸️), i.e., the next State.

We acknowledge that for Music Player Tile this is not consistent with the User Interfaces of other Apps (though some Apps / Devices use a single "play/pause" icon (⏯️), and show the State separately!

+20
Implemented

Allow setting any Tile to be a multiple of grid size

WB70 7 years ago in Panels (dashboards) updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 3 1 duplicate

It would also be great to be able to specify for ALL Tiles added whether it is a 1x1, 2x1, 2x2, 3x1,4x1, etc...

+6
Thank-you!

Great Work by the Action Tiles Team

Adam 7 years ago updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 6

ActionTiles looks great, guys... I'm looking forward to working with it! keep up the great work!

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Discuss

Adding Tiles for Logitech Squeezebox

949BFN 7 years ago in Panels (dashboards) / Special Tiles updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 1

I'm using the Device Handler discussed here to control my Squeezbox Devices: https://community.smartthings.com/t/squeezebox-and-smarthings/1622/31


The DH is set up as a Virtual Switch and we can only use it to Start/Stop Playback. The Squeezebox Devices show up in Action Tiles as Switches, but I would like to add the Squeezebox Devices to show up as Music Players in Action Tiles (to make it easier to identify and to get them to look the same as other music players using the Elements Theme.


I've added the following to the Custom Device Handler in the hope that that would cause the Squeezebox Device to show up as a Music Player in the Active Tiles, but that did not help:

metadata {
    definition (name: "sqVS", namespace: "mmaxwell", author: "Mike Maxwell") {
        capability "Actuator"
        capability "Switch"
        capability "Refresh"
        capability "Sensor"
        capability "Music Player"
        capability "Polling"
        capability "Speech Synthesis"
    }

Is there something else I can try?


Thanks

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Discuss

Charging tablet in the wall

Mark 7 years ago in Browsers Tablets Phones updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 1

I'm looking to mount a cheap Android tablet on the wall to run actiontiles.  I did a quick search but couldn't see any recommendations on USB chargers that could fit inside a UK backbox.  I have found lots of links to chargers that screw to the outside of the backbox but ideally I want it to sit inside so that I can make the tablet fit directly onto the wall.

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On Hold: Discussion Open

Can we have a new tile which creates html5 video tag and we provide its source

Kins 7 years ago in Media Tiles updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 1

html5 has video and audio tag where we provide source and dimension (width and height) it displays native player. Is there a way to add custom tile to do that? Custom html5 tags is even better. 

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Answered

Wemo Power Meter Tile for ActionTiles?

Samsung outlets allow a power usage tile, but not wemo. Any plans to Include Wemo?

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Answered

Disable on/off switch, but still see Power?

ericdthomps 7 years ago in Security updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 3

Hi everyone.

Long-time SmartTiles user... just found Action Tiles and and using my free trial.


I have some energy monitors / switches attached to appliances that I want to be able to see stats for, but NOT be able to turn off via panel = ex - Fridge


Is this possible?  If so, how do I configure?


Thanks in advance.  Eric

Answer

Nevemind, I may have figured it out...

It looks like I can just "remove" the switch tile, keeping the ones for energy (I'm dumb)


Really like the new features..  thanks again.  Eric

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Fixed

Shared Panels - Interactive Mode not executing routines

Josh Barnhardt 7 years ago in Panels (dashboards) / Sharing updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 15

Sharing a panel with two simple routine tiles.
I have it set to interactive mode for secondary user.
Using this panel with the primary account, click the routine tile - the routine executes.
Using this panel with the secondary account, click the routine tile - nothing executes.


Am I missing something? Or is this a bug?

+3
Implemented

Option to hide drawer menu FAB (floating button) in Shared Panels

sec dom 7 years ago in Panels (dashboards) / Sharing updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 7

Possibility to remove setting button (three dots), please?


I use ActionTiles in a Wink relay and it works extremely well. There is no way to get out of ActionTiles when it is open in webapp. But my kids or any person have a possibility with the settings button in dashboard for modify the settings or when it is shared make a logout or change panel.

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Fixed

Media Tile not refreshed on initial page load

needlerp 7 years ago in Media Tiles / Images updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 8 1 duplicate

I've got a couple of media tiles (static image with 10s refresh time). I've noticed that when I first load up the panel the initial image is one from several days ago - it takes until the first refresh (i.e. 10 seconds) to load the correct image. Also, every so often on a refresh cycle it reverts back to the 'old' image for one cycle, before properly refreshing again.

iOS
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Discuss

Just a thought: RTSP to RTMP and add Media file to play youtube live?

Owais 7 years ago in Media Tiles / Video Camera Feeds updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 1

Last night I setup my first IP camera Foscam I9800P in my backyard and was planning to get additional 2. I was pretty happy to watch the video from the ST app but it kind of saddened me that Action Tiles does not support video footage from its panel. (Correct me if I am wrong). 


Its Monday and I felt like being unproductive at work and I started thinking on how to integrate my video feed to action tiles and it clicked what if I connect a YouTube live link to action tiles will that work?


I am yet to go back home and do the R&D. Just thought of asking folks in the community if they have tried this out or think it will work?

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Closed

RELEASE v6.3.0 deployed: Infrastructure for License Purchasing: Trials being expired in batches, each with 3 days notice in-App.

Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago in Announcements / Release Notes updated 7 years ago 23

Featured enhancements...

  • This Release is primarily the implementation of Location License Purchasing.
  • Very few new features or bug fixes this time, but we will double-check what was slipped in...

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


When can I buy?:

  • Hopefully soon: To make sure we're not overwhelmed with a payments bug, we will selectively mark batches of accounts with "Your trial is about to Expire!" notices (about 3 days before the Location is "disabled"); a bunch every day, steadily increasing in batch size.
  • The payments process was considered "very easy and straightforward" by our Beta testers, so we hope you find the same. As always, come to the Forum for support.

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.
  • 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 in-app reload button if you suspect your browser did not refresh to this version (check About to see the Version number).
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Answered

Authorized Simulated / Virtual Buttons not available as Tiles

I have authorized my devices, switches etc... including a number of virtual simulated buttons that I'm using to trigger some webCoRE pistons.  For some reason these simulated buttons appear in the 'authorize' smartthings UX, however when I look in ActionTiles they do not appear.  Am I doing something wrong here?  Also, is this the best way to trigger a piston for webCoRE?

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Fixed

Panel shortcut icon ">" does not work; results in default "grid" icon.

Jamin Dawes 7 years ago in Colors Icons Fonts Themes updated by Alex (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 6

Attempting to change the icon for panel shortcuts to "> Right", but it remains the default. All the other icons work.

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Not Reproducible

Tile Stacking / overlapping on iPad 3, iOS 10

Chris 7 years ago in Panels (dashboards) updated by Alex (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago 5

Hello,


I am trying to set up my iPad to use ActionTiles as a replacement for SmartTiles. I have a Tileset configured, but when I pull up the site on my iPad, the icons are stacking on top of each other and the site is not responsive. This is a picture of what I'm seeing. The top left has sonos controls, and a couple of light switches all on top of each other. I am using an iPad 3 and I have tried multiple browsers and they all seem to do the same thing. I am on the latest version of IOS 10.


Image 548


Thanks,

-Chris