New Map View Feature (to visualize where devices are located in your home)

@AlejandroPadilla seems like ios map view works. Android still have issues

I’ve started tinkering with Map View on iOS. Doesn’t android have a way to upload a picture of a floor plan for the map to be automatically built? iOS you can only manually build the map.

I don’t remember if I uploaded a file or took a picture of my floorplan, but I didn’t have to build it from scratch in the app. I had created a floorplan a couple of years ago to calculate the amount of flooring I needed to buy to cover my entire house, I used that layout in ST’s and it worked perfectly. I just had to name the rooms.

I guess you can’t build on the web somewhere? Found it incredibly painful to build a simple floorplan on my phone.

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I don’t think I’m going to even try unless I can import a floor plan. It would take me forever manually. Having pretty bad OCD doesn’t help.

I may give it a go for one room like my media/home theater room.

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Ok….I just updated my iOS app and I can’t find map view anywhere.

How do I access it?

Suppose to be on the top right side of your screen with a house logo.

I’m pleasantly surprised since the Maps feature is available on an iPad Air 4 which only has 4Gb of RAM because the Android specs they advised requires 6Gb of RAM. Interesting…

@DaWeav , im not sure if the RAM will play a part if the feature is made available or not on the device, as all the device with the right OS will still update accordingly to the same version. Likely the RAM will just play a part in whether the device can load and use the feature smoothly

The first post of this thread shows their announcement about the Android device requirements needing 6Gb of RAM when the Map feature was first released back in November. And now, their current announcement below shows the same thing for iOS.

That’s why I’m pleasantly surprised that my iPad Air 4 has access to the Map feature since all the websites show the specs of the Air 4 only has 4Gb of RAM. Even the Device Monitor app shows just 4Gb of RAM.

The Map view on iOS needs some background tweaks because the color shading of the ‘glowing’ Lighting and Temperature views are understated compared to Android.

@DaWeav yes i know about the announcement of the 6G RAM for both IOS and Android requirement, just that i dont think the updated apps / features can be push only to those devices with 6G RAM.

I think I figured out my problem. I have an iPhone SE. It is a lesser common iPhone where they cram the newer technology insides in the smaller iPhone 8 case. My phone is only a few years old so still has most up to date iOS, however because of the smaller phone my screen resolution is smaller than that listed as the min requirements for mapping

Finally made it to iPhone and iPad, needs the newer iOS, not available on iPad Pro with iOS 16.

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Would like stairs going down. Stairs only go up:P

Would like a deck room type.

Would like more then 20 rooms.

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Nicely done :clap: :clap: :clap:

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I’ve got the map view on my iPad but can’t figure out how to move the device icons to their proper locations. Tried everything I could think of. Any ideas?

You have to select “Edit Map View” from the 3 dot menu. Then, select an item by clicking on it and then long press and slide the icon.

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Got it. Thanks.

Ron Marsden

Good News @AlejandroPadilla !!!

My 1 (out of 4) Map View/Layouts that was rendering off center/freezing is working again :hugs: :hugs: :hugs:

I’m still running SmartThings v1.8.13.22 (since March 13th) and I don’t see any other recently updated underlying/related apps. So not sure what the fix was, or if you/SmartThings fixed just my one (when troubleshooting) or if you/SmartThings found the cause and fixed it for everyone??? But thank you in either case !

Any changes/good news for you @reinaldots @mikedtrd @Declankh ???