I’ve only just received this so I’ve no idea if anything is new or fixed.
Update: I can’t see any obvious changes. The geonames for the Location remains broken.
I also didn’t find any changes.
On this version the light status on the favorite screen is no longer displaying any lights when they are turned on. I disabled the status toggle and even the whole status feature on and off several times and it makes no difference. Normally when any light in my home comes on it shows up in that status bar area making it simple to see which lights are on to turn off individual lights or turn them all off with a single click… that is no longer displayed. I believe that status bar is also supposed to show at the top of each room that has lights so you can perform the same function that also has disappeared.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
I am have the same issue with lights not showing in the status bar.
It seems to be working well for me on two phones. The phones have different users logged in and the settings are per user so they weren’t showing the same thing.
Since this version of the app has rolled out the presentation for the tiles has been updated and the lighting tile now includes devices with the Switch category as well as Light and SmartPlug. I don’t know if that might have confused anything.
It was working just fine I’ve noticed something changed in the last week where lights switches or dimmers are no longer listed. The tile is gone, it never displays regardless of which lighting device is on. I have 30+ lights and switches from different manufacturers so this is not a device or category problem this is a bug in the app or some nonsense the ST is doing in the cloud that is preventing the lights and tile from displaying. I also have the app installed on three wall hubs, two tablets and 4 phones and the experience is the same on all of them.
Curious. What does the ‘Show <location> status’ menu item on the favourites page show? Has Lights disappeared from there too? If not is it still enabled and have you tried updating the list of selected devices?
Lights is checked along with every other status tile. I tried unchecking and rechecking lights as well as turning off status and turning it back on with no change. All of the other tiles show up just lights is refusing to display when any light is turned on.
After updating to this version, information about temperature and humidity received from the air conditioner (Samsung AR9500T) disappeared from the application. Now the information appears only when the AC is running, if you turn it off, the information will disappear. In the old version of the application, information about temperature and humidity was always available.
I haven’t looked at this for a while. The geonames seem to be working now. Unfortunately the maps are no longer being displayed.
As if by magic, having confirmed the maps were missing on two existing Locations and one new Location for two users and two phones, the maps have were back within seconds of writing the above.
Well I’ve seen no change to the Lights Tile it is still missing in action regardless of which device the app is running on. Lights come on, the tile never shows up.
Found a bug.
The Home Status Temperature devices are different on Android compared to iOS.
On iOS I see the multipurpose sensors listed in the Home Status Temperature list, but on Android’s Home Status Temperature list I’m not seeing the multipurpose sensors listed. So there is a bug in the Android version of the SmartThings app since it is not showing the multipurpose sensors on the Home Status Temperature list.
This is causing a problem for me when I’m looking at the Map View in Temperature Only view because on iOS I’m an able to unselect the multipurpose sensors in the Home Status Temperature list so that I only see the motion and thermostat sensors on the map which is what I want to see. However on Android, since I cannot see the multipurpose sensors on the Home Status Temperature list to unselect them, when I look at the Map View in Temperature Only view on Android, it is showing all the multipurpose sensors, yuk!
I was going to add that on Android you could only select devices by clicking on the temperature tile and going to the ‘Select devices’ option, because when you go into the ‘Show Location Status’ option on the Favourites tab it doesn’t list Temperature at all so there is nothing to click on.
However as I am writing this the temperature tile has completely disappeared too.
While we’re talking about location status and tiles…
Can we get this?
The first one shouldn’t be that difficult because all the data is available from the energy monitor.
The second is already implemented but only in the quick settings panel.
That would be awesome!
Actually, after looking at it closer, I do see a few multipurpose sensors in Android’s Home Status Temperature list. It’s rather ‘interesting’ since the few multipurpose sensors that I see are the ones that are using a 3rd party Edge driver, and not the native SmartThings multipurpose Edge driver. All of my other multipurpose devices are using the native SmartThings Edge driver and those are the ones I’m not seeing on the Home Status Temperature list in Android only. Very interesting…
I might be able to explain this.
A new TempHumiditySensor category has been added to a number of stock Edge driver profiles and has now been rolled out to beta. All my temperature sensors are using the beta drivers and also handle humidity so have a new icon in the app.
I can see that the ‘manufacturer’ category on the devices is indeed now TempHumiditySensor and curiously the ‘user’ one (normally set in the mobile app) is TempSensor. Not sure where that appeared from.
Neither the TempHumiditySensor or the TempSensor are yet considered for the temperature summary tiles. By contrast the humidity tile only looks for the capability, not a device category, so that is fine.
I am wondering if perhaps the profiles in the third party driver have been liberally sprinked with ocfDeviceType metadata that doesn’t appear in the stock driver. However even if that were the case it would still need the iOS to be using version 1 of the summary tiles even though Android has been using version 2 for a long time.
Version 2 replaces device types with categories for filtering devices for the tiles. It also displays temperature and humidity ranges instead of averages if the spread of values exceeds a threshold, and now also includes devices in the Switch category in the lighting tile. Plus it handles some other stuff like shoe care devices. So you’d probably know if iOS is using it.
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in the Android app Temperature and humidity status tiles show devices without updating the values.
I don’t know since when because I don’t use them at all since I can’t correctly choose the devices I would like, but today I realized that the tiles show an not updated value and if I click on the tile it doesn’t show the same data.
Maybe they have put another filter just like in the history of the devices, who knows!
For temperature example:
Something similar is frequently seen in all the device tiles that show temperature and power values, the information it shows does not match the details view, they must have different update intervals, I don’t understand anything!
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I haven’t had the temperature tiles for a while now, presumably because all my sensors have switched to TempHumiditySensor, but yes I am seeing the Humidity tiles with the wrong values. Temperature and Humidity tiles should update every ten minutes but my Humidity tiles don’t look like they’ve updated since about 3pm yesterday (GMT+1).
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So after having issues with temp displaying, I opted to delete and re-download the app. Now I have no home status bar at all despite it being checked off.
Hooray.
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