Possible to display larger amount of text in new Smartthings App?

Developer Programs Writing Device Types
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Hi, I am currently trying to rework some existing DTH to also work in the new Smartthings app. One information element to show contains a fair amount of text (several lines of maybe 20 characters each). This is read-only information, so I tried to use a custom State capability to show the text, but it seems the element does not resize (or scale down font size). Or I am doing it wrong - I am pretty new at the new app.
Is there a (better) way to display larger text? Thanks for all the help and ideas.

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Welcome, @dasalien! Up to now, the font size of the State display type cannot be modified.
Can you give me an example of the text you want to display, please?

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Hi @nayelyz, thank you for the quick follow-up. Here is an example of what is presented in the classic app currently:
Routines

1 routine1 10:00 11:00
run:[Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat]

2 routine2 11:30 12:30
run:[Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat]

3 routine3 10:00 11:00
run:[Wed]

Hope this helps.

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I’d like to understand the purpose of showing the configuration of those routines. Can you tell me if they are coming from a SmartApp and what they do, please?

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Hi @nayelyz, they are coming from an external control device (think watering system) that is represented by the device type handler and show the routines defined in that device.

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So, you are using the DTH to visualize the routines config or you also send commands to that device?
I can think of two workarounds that can help you out. Let me know your thoughts.

  1. Use a Groovy SmartApp to obtain and display the routine’s value. (this is part of the legacy platform).
    Since you are receiving the value in the custom capability, in the sample below, I used the preferences config to show in a paragraph element its value once the device is selected.
    groovySmartApp_largeText
    groovySmartApp_largeText754×708 49.4 KB
  1. Create a SmartApp using the SDK. (getting started tutorial)
    This one is similar but it needs to be installed for the capability value display.
    smartappsdk_largeText
    smartappsdk_largeText748×759 61.1 KB

https://glitch.com/~smartapp-largetext

If the routines’ value can be queried directly through a REST API, you can do it in both options.