Lights and switches shortcut:request for feature

[tgauchat (ActionTiles.com co-founder Terry @ActionTiles; GitHub: @cosmicpuppy)]

It’s definitely possible, but SmartThings has a few higher priority things at back end, and are concentrating on speed of Mobile App, it seems (though exact new feature list and road map not released).

And things run into complications that we don’t always think of. If you have different types of light bulbs (wattage, brand, led vs incandescent) in the same Group, they respond differently to the same dimmer level setting… Eg, if you want all the lights to look similar brightness, then your 100 Watt bulbs need a lower brightness level than your 60 Watts in the same Group.

I’ve requested that Groups have much more power including allowing tiles and subtiles to be in multiple Groups and dimming, labels, etc., but it’s good for ST to hear these requests from multiple Community members.

Feature Request: Label on tile "previews" in things view

To be clear: I support the concept of “Groups”, instead of “rooms”, because “Groups”, theoretically, are more flexible. I can choose to group by any criteria or reason that makes sense to my home, habits, or brain-waves. The problem?: SmartThings is hard-coded to only allow a Thing to be in a maximum of ONE Group. Secondary problem is there is no concept of “Sub-Groups”. [The persistent, repeated complaint / issue of lack of Labels could be very easily resolved with an App Settings option or on/off toggle switch in the top area of any tiles screen. This change is only front-end related and should be absolutely trivial to implement. I hope we are being heard!] *The concept of Soft Tiles (shortcuts, ability to put a Thing in multiple-groups, ability to see multiple sub-tile views of th…