Add one and then use “Inspect” of your browser debugger 
… if you have a browser debugger installed. Quite indispensable (I usually use Chrome now, instead of Firebug).
Thanks. I ended up making it 240 x 120 and it worked fine for the first try. Now just to mess with the actual pic a bit more.
Through the custom CSS, would it be possible to modify the positions of the tiles? Maybe make an image of my home’s floorplan as the background, and adjust the position of the tiles over their respective rooms?
It seems like it should be doable, if each tile is in it’s own DIV.
UPDATE: So far, I was able to override the tile placement using “!important” in the custom CSS section, which I’m sure will have some unintended consequences, but it at least gives me some creativity.
Possible? Yes. Recommended due to the complexity? No.
Add in blank tiles as needed, re-size items as needed, and good luck.
ouch screen burn in…and think of the environment…i use tasker to make a proximity sensor so the tablet powers on when you walk infront of it
I’m very new to SmartTiles and am trying to rename a tile in CSS. I am able to center the text and change the color of the tile but can’t figure out how to rename it for the life of me. Thought content: “Living Room”; would work but it doesn’t seem to do anything. Here is what I have so far
.tile.dimmerLight[data-device=‘c0718960-84ad-4328-9d49-6f5b64b709d6’] {content: “Living Room”; text-align: center; background-color: red;}
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Is there a reason you aren’t just renaming the device in SmartThings?
It pulls the name from the SmartThings device name.
I was going to do that but I have 2 lights in my living room that I named Living Room Light Left… and then Right. This way I know which one I’m dimming in SharpTools. But I’m beginning to think it not worth the hassle and I should just rename them in SmartThings.
If you’re trying to find a cheap tablet to use these ideas with, there’s this:
Gets a 4 star average review.
ASUS Nexus 7 (7-Inch, 32 GB, Wi-Fi + 3G/4G) Tablet (2012) (Certified Refurbished) $89.99
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS
Hey guys,
I have a custom device that I programmed to send IR signals to my TVs in my house, What I have now is that only one of the button functions is able to be access via the smart tiles page. That one function is whatever action is tied to the Switch or Push button capacity, Currently I have is set to toggle the power on the TV.
What I want to have is a menu that pops up like the routines or modes when I tap the device tile, then inside that menu have all the function buttons that I can access from the buttons that are in the device when I use the Smart things app to control it. Any suggestions or resources would be welcome!
Here’s the Details page of the IR device I built, I want these to be accessible via the smart tiles too.
Thank you!
James
Unfortunately, SmartThings makes it very difficult to work with non standard capabilities.
What you need is a “proxy” app that would bind a set of virtual Momentary Button Tiles to your custom commands. Then, you can add the button tiles to SmartTiles, as usual.
Sadly, my trusty “travel/gym” Nexus 7 screen went wonky last night (faded and ghosty). Pretty convinced it’s a hardware fault… Perhaps loose LCD connection or something more technical in the graphics system.
But… Perhaps still completely useful for a SmartTiles Dashboard!
Yup… The metadata{} section of a DTH where all the special custom Tiles are defined is not exposed in any API to Community Developers.
Of course, if we can manually read the code, then there are possibilities. SmartTiles will probably have to start trying to accommodate popular custom device types.
Here’s my layout so far. I don’t have very many Things, so when I add more, I’ll likely make more adjustments to the sizes of the tiles as well as the colors to help them stand out yet fit with the floor plan and background. I’m not a pro at CSS, but this was still quite doable without too much complexity. Thanks to Alex and Terry for making a great app for SmartThings!!
That looks good so far!
I wouldn’t attempt it with the number of things I have.
Especially when you start factoring in the units that offer multiple tiles (Multi sensors offer open/close, temp, acceleration, battery percentage, and even a lot of motion sensors offer temp, too)
Because I’m an experimenter & don’t have much sense, I wanted to find out if Modes could be named with emojis.
They can. SmartTiles supports this.
No text at all works too:
Hmmm. It wouldn’t let me change “TV Time or Early Night” to :
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Is there any benefit for an iOS phone person to use an android tablet for Smarttiles? Does tasker or sharp tools do anything useful without being tied to your phone? I like apple too much to go to an android phone but I would consider an android tablet to be my controller
I’ve been looking around and can’t seem to find an answer to this:
I’d like to mount a tablet on the wall(s) to make a control center. Here’s the rub, there is no way my wife is going to have a backlit display running on the wall. Can anyone point me in the direction of a non-backlit tablet?
In a perfect world, I’d like the tablet to have backlighting that comes on with touching the screen or home button, but then fades out, leaving a full screen non-backlit display running 24/7.
Ideas?
You can set one up that will have the screen off until it detects motion using the camera. This might be your easiest and fastest solution.
As an alternative…
If you don’t want to have some app constantly running the camera on your phone (unnecessary power drain), you could consider going the route I took here…