Hey I created this thread to avoid “hijacking” this one 
A few questions from a new user:
- How do I display the indoor temperature from a Nest Thermostat? I see it in the screenshot above, is that just an in-development build?
- Is there a way to send a command to a switch simply by sending an HTTP request using the data from your app?
Thanks.
You can go into the “View an control these things” → “Which Temperature” section of the ActiOn Dashboard and any thermometer devices will be displayed there.
Thermostat integration is not complete yet.
To display Nest’s temperature, add a temperature tile. Your Nest will show up under Temperature and Humidity sections.
Yes. Look in this thread above.
Thanks for keeping up the great project! This thing almost gets the SO approval! Finally a Win for Home Automation.
I’m not seeing the nest in the Thermostat list either… I can however find it in humidity. I’m using a custom device type from https://gist.github.com/Dianoga/6055918
You should be looking in Temperature list, not Thermostat. There is no Thermostat list yet.
I’m using the same device type. Works perfectly.
It should be under Temperature and Presence. I was using the wrong device type. Switching my Nest to the same one you have fixed it for me.
Thanks. Fixed both of them. Great work.
That’s the thing about unofficial device types. Each of us has the same device with a different flavor…
Sorry, meant temperature… Only the weather tile showed up. I changed it to a different device type and it’s there now. I’ll have to dig into the prev device later to see if there is a typo or some other reason it’s not advertising the capability properly.
Hi Alex. Love the dashboard! Is this the correct place to ask you questions? I have a few humidity sensors that are registering the temp with actION, but not the humidity or batt level.
@kevintierney I just received my Foscam F9812 V2.1 and got it to work with the Action Dashboard from @625alex. I look at the link that @randypaine had in his reply and did the following step
- Open web browser and put this address in
http://ip address:port/cgi-bin/CGIProxy.fcgi?usr=admin&pwd=&cmd=setSubStreamFormat&format=1
this put the 9821 foscam streaming mode for mjpeg format=1 is for the MJpeg stream - put this address into the Action Dashboard
http://ip address:port/cgi-bin/CGIStream.cgi?cmd=GetMJStream&usr=admin&pwd=xxx
and it now stream to the action dashboard. I have also restarted the computer and it has no problem streaming from the 9821 ver 2.1 camera that I brought. You have to put in the address number 1 with the admin name and password into the web browser address bar. Mine work good and has a good picture.
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@625alex Slick interface. Maybe I’m daft but I don’t see a way to view the activity logs for the device, e.g., when did my daughter arrive home (presence device) or when was there motion in the hall? I can see them in the native ST apps by clicking on the gear icon, but how in actiON?
@mharvey23 did you find the reference by alex of how to send an http command?
@llcanada I tried that, but something isn’t working for me
The first step goes fine and it returns 0 as expected
Step 2 keeps returning a 404
I did a firmware update, but I already had the latest version 2.11.1.10
@kevintierney what browser are you using. I’m using Firefox and Opera not a problem. Let me know what browser your using and I will try that. Thanks
@625alex - I seem to be having an issue with the ST temp/humidity sensor. In The ST Thing tile, it shows the humidity properly and I can see it in the logs. However, the humidity tile in the web interface shows n/a%. It shows the temp fine for the device, though. Also, my two Nests show both temp and humidity fine. It’s just the ST humidity.
Yes, there is no better place for questions!
@Billybnyc, @brianlees
It seems that you have the new ST humidity/temp sensors.
Well, they never worked. They don’t report humidity correctly. Whenever humidity is being read, a NumberFormatException is thrown.
I don’t own one, so I could spend too much time debugging, some other community members tried to help me with no success.
I poked a number people in ST, but no one ever responded. This device type is not published either.
If you want to try to figure this out, write the simplest app to print the humidity level:
device.currentValue("humidity")
You will get an exception. Try to be creative and see if you can get around it and get a value.
I would be very happy to see this resolved.
There is no activity log.
This is not a clone of the ST native app. They have feature that ActiON doesn’t and vice-versa.