Feature Request: BRING BACK THE ABILITY TO GROUP A LOCK AND SENSOR INTO A "DOOR"

[VipZ28]

Seriously, this is ridiculous. I should be able to see that my door is closed and locked on the same screen.

[tgauchat]

This is essentially a duplicate of several Topics; this one links to many:

Smartthings give me back my dashboard and shortcuts

I use to love to be able to look at the dashboard and see if some lights are on if there's motion, if all my doors are locked closed etc. Now the only thing on the dashboard is the short cut to smart home monitor its really pointless. The other big grip is yes it's automation but I'd like to still easily turn on groups of lights with shortcut and you took the ease of that away. I don't want to have to create a routine when it use to be so easy. Anyway it really bums me out, I was so excited about the new hub and after reinstalling all of my devices and locks I find this out. It was like a kick in the jewels and a ha ha got yah. Please fix this only Apple assumes they know what's best and refuses to fix their mistakes.

[JDRoberts]

Seriously, this is ridiculous. I should be able to see that my door is closed and locked on the same screen.

They’ve been saying this would be coming back for 15 months now, so I don’t think it’s going to happen anytime soon.

You can create an alternative, but you can’t get it to display on the dashboard in the smartthings mobile app.

If you would be willing to use smarttiles to display the status of these “doors” then you could use core to turn on a virtual switch when both the lock is locked and The contact sensor is closed, and to turn off the switch when either of those two were not true. So the virtual switch represents the door which is made up of the two separate component devices.

I know it’s annoying to have to do that amount of work and To have the second display, in this case smarttiles, but the functionality is pretty good.

1. SmartTiles: customizable third party dashboard:

www.smarttiles.click

2. creating a virtual switch:

FAQ: Creating a virtual Device

Need a FAQ for the simplest version of this: a virtual on/off switch. Maybe even two FAQs, one for why you would want one with use case examples and one step by step how to for creating one in ST. Thanks!

3. CORE, to create a rule (which core calls a “piston”) to turn that switch on or off based on the status of both of the door devices:

FAQ: What is WebCoRE? (And what was CoRE?)

CoRE (now WebCore) is a very powerful community – created rules engine for SmartThings. It allows you to set up stacked conditionals like “If A then B but only while C and not if D.” Setting it up can be quite complex, but there are many community members who will be glad to help you. For example, here is a piston that one member created to notify him if the dog had already been fed twice that day and he picked up the dog bowl for a third time. He needed this because he has a large family and people didn’t always remember whose turn it was to feed the dog. [image] The original version of CoRE Has now been replaced by a new version, WebCoRE, which moves the data entry to a web interface. This allows for flexibility and an architecture that requires more memory than is av…

Like I said, I’m not saying this is a good choice; like you, I would much rather see the functionality of the old dashboards restored. I just thought I’d mention this method in case having this level of functionality right now is of any help to you.

[tgauchat]

1. SmartTiles: customizable third party dashboard:

Thanks again for the mention, @JDRoberts!

I just added a related Feature Request to ActionTiles’s to-do list: Allow the creation of a hybrid-Tile that combines a Lock Tile with a Contact Sensor Tile in one. This would help ensure that a customer cannot Lock a door that is still physically open (i.e., cannot throw the bolt outside the strike plate)… and provide a simplified display at the same time (saving one Tile space on a dashboard Panel).

[VipZ28]

I should have added that: PS: I know this is a duplicate and there are work arounds, I just wanted to voice my complaint at the top of the page for a moment

I’m also already a SmartTiles user!

[RobinWinbourne]

I use CoRE to send me nagging text messages every 10 minutes if my back gate is left open whilst mag lock is trying to engage.

I like the idea of displaying this on SmartTiles as well… Thanks for the idea @JDRoberts

@tgauchat - Will ActionTiles be able to display flashing attention grabbing warning tiles? Can this feature be included on your to-do list?

[tgauchat]

Will ActionTiles be able to display flashing attention grabbing warning tiles? Can this feature be included on your to-do list?

It’s on the feature request list.

[Navat604]

It’s on the feature request list.

Great idea. I think I am going to create a virtual switch and use CoRE for this.