New SmartThings app device history

[jlv]

@Tseyvar

I hope they plan on bringing this over into the new Smartthings app soon.

People have reported it as a significant missing feature for over a year. Don’t count on “soon”.
(my reports of it are more recent, because I didn’t even try using the “new” app until a few months ago)

Device recently/history view in classic vs. new app (Android)

Here’s the same device and a screenshot of the history - the classic on the left and new on the right. The new app is missing tiny feature – one of the things that makes the classic app so nice. When I scroll through the ‘recently’, it keeps the last date pinned at the top of the window. This means I can always see what date I’m looking at. For devices that produce hundreds of events per day, this can be really useful for when you need to look through the history. [image][image] I split this off from a different thread. For tracking down that problem, I had to look back 3 days in the history of 40 devices. Having the date pinned to the top of the screen made that so easy. It would have been much more annoying in the new app to find events between 5PM and 6PM via scrolling.

Updates to the SmartThings Platform

Yes, you can you not see what SmartApps are using a specific device. Not only that, but in the history view you can’t tell what SmartApp acted upon the device. It makes it impossible to figure out what turned on a lamp when you have multiple SmartLighting rules that can act on it. E.g., this light can be turned on by motion or by the door opening. The Classic app shows the SmartApp (motion or door opens) and show the commands (on, setlevel, etc). The new app hides all the helpful details. [image] [image] (and as I’ve noted before, the history view in the Classic app kept the date it was showing at the top (“Today” in the screenshot); the new app doesn’t!)