I migrated my SmartTiles to ActionTiles this week.
My Nest thermostat tile reports the temperature in celsius rather than fahrenheit.
On the developers page, My Devices for the Nest thermostat shows the temperature in celsius, even though my Nest app and Nest thermostat are displaying fahrenheit.
SmartTiles automatically converted to fahrenheit.
ActionTiles displays the temp in celsius directly from My Devices. According to support, there is currently no way to tell ActionTiles to display temperatures in fahrenheit.
Has anyone figured out how to do this?
Is there a different device handler for the Nest thermostat I can use?
I donāt understand why Current State displays Celsius when Nest app is set to Fahrenheit.
Under My Location it shows:
Temperature Scale F
I contacted ActionTiles customer support about this and they said Nest is not fully supported device. And since Current States is displaying temperature in Celsius, ActionTiles would display temperature in Celsius.
Curious that SmartTiles Nest tile displayed temperature in Fahrenheit.
So I thought Iād ask the SmartThings community whether any had a fix. I figured there must be loads of SmartThings users with Nest thermostats who have this problem.
I asked whether ActionTiles would consider adding a global temperature scale setting.
If you login to IDE at https://account.smartthings.com go to my locations, do you only see one home location? And if you only have one and click on home, does the temperature scale show F?
tgauchat
(ActionTiles.com co-founder Terry @ActionTiles; GitHub: @cosmicpuppy)
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Our philosophy is that if SmartThings has a function to do something
(e.g., the handling of ātemperatureUnitsā), then SmartThings and/or the Device Handler developers should properly and correctly use and conform to that functionality, rather than adding complexity and bandaids to ActionTiles.
Conclusion (?): I apologize, but have to be blunt: This is clearly a bug in SmartThings and/or the Device Handler and/or your configuration. ActionTiles uses the data that is shown in the IDE. That is the official source of information about the state of your device.
I only have one location and itās temperature scale is F.
Iāve been using the old nest thermostat device handler which appears to be obsolete.
Iām trying to switch to the NST manager now. I installed it but it doesnāt show up in My Apps. And Iām pretty sure I installed it in the right shard.
tgauchat
(ActionTiles.com co-founder Terry @ActionTiles; GitHub: @cosmicpuppy)
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Determine your Shard using my FAQ
And let me know if you have any questions regarding App / DH installation. It will be great if this is fixable through a DH update.
20 celsius is not a valid temperature, it should be 20.
Iām personally using the excellent āMy Next Tstatā DTH by @yvesracine and it works great with ActionTiles.
ActionTiles doesnāt do any conversion on data thatās sent by SmartThings. We have to rely on ST to provide valid data that confirms to their own specifications.