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Fixed

Shortcut Tile names should wrap like Thing Tile labels

btcompute 8 years ago in Panels (dashboards) updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 8 years ago 4

Hi

I see that text labels on tiles for "Things" will automatically wrap to a second line of text in the case of a long title "Outdoor Garage Spot Light" for example.

It appears as though the text on shortcuts does not wrap around and therefor some characters of the title are not shown.

Is there a way to correct this?

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thanks

Brian T

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Fixed

ActionTiles Not Updating - April 25, 9:45am Central

Nezmo 8 years ago in Panels (dashboards) updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 8 years ago 4

My ActionTiles is not updating as of about the last 30 minutes. Anyone else?

+3
Fixed

Halo+ smoke detector not working in ActionTiles

miodek81 8 years ago in Things & Capabilities updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 8 years ago 26
hello,

I was wondering if you are planning on supporting halo+ smoke alarms with action tiles?
Right now i have them added in ST but it is not being recognized by action tiles.

Thank you.
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Confirmed Bug

Light bulb color picker not working Windows Edge browser

Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 8 years ago in Browsers Tablets Phones / Windows updated 8 years ago 1

The color-picker on switch Tiles will pop-up normally on Windows 10 Edge browser, but tapping it gives no response.


(There are a couple other glitches in the color-picker which we are investigating).

Windows
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Answered

Simulated Presence Sensor not listed

I've added a virtual presence sensor (as a "Simulated Presence Sensor") which supports the presence capability. But it is not showing up on my list of things when I authorize...

+34
Implemented

Copy Panel or "Save As..."

Royski 8 years ago in Panels (dashboards) updated by Alex (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 8 years ago 11 2 duplicates

Could there be any way to have a save as, or copy one panel to another name etc. I would like the same settings as another panel, but for another device, and screen size. Is there no other way than configuring from scratch for each? Great work BTW loving this!

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Not a Bug

Smart Home Monitor tile only showing armed status

Nathan Davis 8 years ago in Panels (dashboards) updated by Alex (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 8 years ago 3

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


Image 944


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 8 years ago in Browsers Tablets Phones / Android updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 8 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 8 years ago in Panels (dashboards) / Special Tiles updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 8 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 8 years ago in Security updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 8 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 8 years ago in Panels (dashboards) / Special Tiles updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 8 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 8 years ago in Panels (dashboards) updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 8 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 8 years ago updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 8 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 8 years ago in Panels (dashboards) / Special Tiles updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 8 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 8 years ago in Browsers Tablets Phones updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 8 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 8 years ago in Media Tiles updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 8 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 8 years ago in Security updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 8 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 8 years ago in Panels (dashboards) / Sharing updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 8 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 8 years ago in Panels (dashboards) / Sharing updated by Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 8 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.