Smart switch wiring experience in an older house and 1 switch I need advice on

[johnconstantelo]

Here’s something I did as a work around a while back:

Updated: Device Name instead of an Icon, here's how I did it

I now have a lot of devices, and putting them in groups does help quickly locate what you’re looking for, especially when a room may have a few sets of similar lights like ceiling cans. My wife really likes to see the name of the device instead of an icon, and shaking the phone kinda wigged her out a bit, so I came up with this process. I’ll say it isn’t as simple as an attribute you can put in “standardTile” in your own device type, but it isn’t too bad considering it works and now my wife is using ST more and more. Here’s how I did it: Create your own device type in the IDE modeled exactly from “Z-Wave Switch” Add “canChangeBackground: true” to the standardTile for “switch” to give you the ability to use your own pictures (credit to twack for showing me that!): // tile defini…

It’s kind of a PITA, but it works. The code referenced is old, but step 2 is still the important thing - “canChangeBackground: true”