# Changing the attribute shown for a device in the new app (show temp instead of humidity) **URL:** \ **Category:** SmartThings (Samsung Connect)\ **Created:** [August 8, 2021, 9:35pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/changing-the-attribute-shown-for-a-device-in-the-new-app-show-temp-instead-of-humidity/229951 "2021-08-08T21:35:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JoshB](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/smartthings/user_avatar/community.smartthings.com/joshb/32/143680_2.png) [@JoshB](https://community.smartthings.com/u/JoshB)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 9:35pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/changing-the-attribute-shown-for-a-device-in-the-new-app-show-temp-instead-of-humidity/229951/1 "2021-08-08T21:35:19Z")
I’m having trouble finding a resource that I can understand on how to set up the dashboard view for the new app. I’m a slightly code literate mechanical engineer so I don’t exactly need the crayon version but I’m not the best developer out there. What I’m tryin to do is change a DTH that is working well for temp/humidity sensors so that the dashboard shows temp instead of humidity. I would like to believe that this is an easy change but I can’t figure it out. I would love it if someone could point me to a good resource. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![orangebucket](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/smartthings/user_avatar/community.smartthings.com/orangebucket/32/81590_2.png) [@orangebucket](https://community.smartthings.com/u/orangebucket)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 9:49pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/changing-the-attribute-shown-for-a-device-in-the-new-app-show-temp-instead-of-humidity/229951/2 "2021-08-08T21:49:41Z")
It is less trivial than you might imagine, but a two minute job when you know how to do it. That’s not to say that the app will honour the change immediately as it once did. There is so much caching I’ve lost track of what the current situation is. I’ve written at obscene length on this subject several times (mainly because I can never find my old posts when I want to). I’ll see what I can find. Here is one … > [@How to change the value shown in the device card on the Home screen](https://community.smartthings.com/t/how-to-change-the-value-shown-in-the-device-card-on-the-home-screen/205099/10): > > OK, firstly bear in mind that you may find the process a bit arcane, complicated or think that it just sucks. Fair enough, but it is functionality designed for the ‘new’ environment being retrofitted into the legacy environment, it isn’t going to be pretty. The following content is based on an actual example that appeared in another post. The object of the exercise was to have a device display the illuminance in the dashboard tile. The tool that will be used is the [CLI](https://github.com/SmartThingsCommunity/smartthings-cli/blob/master/packages/cli/README.md). Yes, that is CLI as in Command Line Interface. It is essentially being used to make it easier to use the SmartThings REST API. Capabilities have their own ‘presentations’ that define how they look when they are used as the status on the dashboard tile, as the action on the dashboard tile, as tiles on the detail pages, an… Things have changed a bit but the meat of its still correct. ---
**Author:** ![JoshB](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/smartthings/user_avatar/community.smartthings.com/joshb/32/143680_2.png) [@JoshB](https://community.smartthings.com/u/JoshB)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 11:58pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/changing-the-attribute-shown-for-a-device-in-the-new-app-show-temp-instead-of-humidity/229951/3 "2021-08-08T23:58:38Z")
Thank you! I’ll give it a go.