Only nominally related, but would love to see Tile used for presence with ST to set Home and Away status! Not sure if that would require some Harmony integration work given Harmony’s BT capability (and also assuming that doing something along those lines with iOS is virtually impossible). Android might be simpler? I get home/away notifications throughout the day from my iPhone as I move through the house and change WiFi access points (all same SSID so it’s virtually seamless to me, but clearly not to ST).
I think @magnus is talking about “Tile” as in https://www.thetileapp.com not ST tiles… I have the same desire because I have 4 of them and have considered doing it as a cloud-to-cloud integration but it just doesn’t make as much sense - seeing as how my phone will be gone most of the time I want to check on things that have “Tiles” I am waiting for Hub 2.0 and a more open standard API for Tile over BT because right now it can only be accessed by a single “paired” device…
Depending on whether or not your SmartApp created the device-type (Tile), which could be one of many types, then the answer is Yes - a parent smartApp can create/remove childApps and childDevices as often as desired - childApps show up in which ever category they are “coded” into and the device-types show up in “things” (things that have Tiles)… In either case the smartApp and device-type have to be published and in the same name space to be created/deleted… So in a certain sense you could do “dynamic” “things” that have data specific formats and “dynamic apps” by creating them as childApps…
I seems so strange to me that this wasn’t a part of the 2.0 app. I mean @Ben said it was coming in Jul 2014 so I assumed that it would at the very least be in the 2.0 version but it seems we still can’t dynamically control tiles. Many devices including the one I am working on now have various states which have features associated only with certain states. For example I am working on the Aeon Smart Switch 6 (Gen 5) device code and it is supposed to be able to dim when in nightlight mode but not in the other two modes. So I would like the dimming slider to only display when that mode is set. But alas this is not possible with the ST api.
I am trying to create a generic device type that adds and removes tiles based on the device it detects. From this thread it seems like the feature hasn’t been implemented. I’m trying to shoehorn it, but haven’t had success. The problem I am running into is that I cannot find a way to communicate data between the devices meta code and the rest of its code. I’ve tried state, settings, attributes, etc. and nothing exists inside of meta. I really wish this functionality was in place.
You can do it via a smartapp connect app, basically have a bunch of DTH that based on what you find, it adds the child device. Not dynamic, but will probably be the best for now.
HTML tiles will be the answer, we know its in the wild, but we don’t have docs or examples on how to do it, yet…