How to change the order of Things in My Home?

Apps & Clients
1

Is there a way the change the order of the Things in My Home? I see you can change the order of the Rooms by pressing the cog in the top right hand corner but there is no cog in the Things tab? (iOS)

2

Can’t to it easily. It’s alphabetical. So you can fudge it. Like my Solar system is named A Solar so it’s up top. You can also use punctuation ahead of the name to get it up top. Like a period.

3

I was just about to suggest that only using numbers:

0_Livingroom1
0_Livingroom2
1_Bedroom1
1_Bedroom2

4

It is something that should be done, but I don’t expect it. I also would like to see it done in the style.

ROOM NAME
Device Name
Device Name
ROOM NAME
Device Name

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5

Was afraid it would mean resorting to something like that. Still I can live in hope that they deem it worthy of a fix soon…

Thanks anyway.

6

I wouldn’t hold your breath. It has been this way for a while now and all the complaints haven’t changed it yet.

7

It’s one favorite feature of ActionTiles… The ability to arrange Thing Tiles in any order on any dashboard Panel. www.ActionTiles.com (@joelw135 coulda told you that! :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:).

8

I am a Bad Boy!!!

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9

Here’s how I do mine.
Just makes it easier for my tiny mind.

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10

I prefix my device names by rooms or logical groups as well.

You can also assign devices to a room or logical group that you have created under Rooms. This allows you to easily see all Things associated with certain Rooms.

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11

All these solutions are well & good unless you’re using Alexa as I do & try to name items as distinctly as possible to ensure successful capture by voice command…I pretty much gave up renaming to reorder. I don’t have hundreds of devices as many others do (few less than 90) so perhaps not as much of an issue. I try to use rooms to help but for some reason just not as appealing as a quick scroll in the app sometimes.

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12

Having just bought an echo dot I have discovered the same problem with placing things in order and now having to rename everything so I can use them with voice commands. Fortunately I am new to converting to a smart home so only have 20 odd things to change!