SmartTiles Dashboard 5.4.2 - July 13 (www.SmartTiles.click)

[daven]

It’s great that the weather tile is back and working again but has anyone noticed the lack of refresh lately? Mine says it’s 18 degrees out and it’s really 26.5! I’ve tried 2 devices and a reboot but still erroneous data.
Cheers

[625alex (Alex, ActionTiles Control Panel)]

Anyone who is concerned about weather not refreshing due to scheduling issues is welcome to follow this thread.

Scheduler and Polling quits after some minutes, hours, or days

I have a SmartApp that brightens lights in a zone when there is motion or a door opens. It dims the lights after a given timeout period. I have 6 instances of the app on one hub, (6 different lighting zones), and 8 on another hub, in another building. When the app initializes, it starts the scheduler to run a scheduleCheck() function every minute, to turn off lights, when appropriate. It was working for months. Then it stopped dimming reliably. I have determined that the scheduleCheck() function stops running as scheduled. I have also noticed that it now usually schedules at the top of the minute, i.e., the seconds are zero. This did not used to be the case. And the time between scheduled calls can be 1, 2, or 3 minutes. I have just installed a workaround, in which I re-initializ…

In the future, I may rewrite schedulers to use external triggers instead.

[Tr0n (Chris)]

Thank you! So buried!

[akoziol99]

Hey Alex,

For the Sonos text any way you can get the text to scroll instead of having it go over the buttons?

[YEM (Jack S)]

Can anyone help me get a Hikvision IP camera working in SmartTiles? Maybe there is some trick I am missing? My camera is functional and viewable from the outside internet. I use NoIP.com for a Dynamin DNS address. That address works fine from a browser or any of the camera apps available on phones these days. When I put the address into the “Video Streams / Generic MJPEG video streams” section and then open SmartTiles, it appears to hit my modem or the camera behind it, and prompts me for a username / password. But no matter what I put in for username/pw, it doesn’t accept what I’ve entered and the login screen reappears.

Anyone experienced this?

[llcanada]

@YEM Have you try putting the user name and password first
something like
http://user:pw/IPADDRESS:554/videostream.cgi?rate=0? i don’t know what model you are using? see if that works for you.

[dchau11 (DaveC)]

@YEM H.264 and port 554 are for RTSP. SmartTiles does not support RTSP yet.

You can use java script to capture still image every 3 or 5 secs.

Or try below steps. Keep in mind that it might not work with all of web browsers. It work for me on Safari, but NOT Chrome.

1. Log into your camera
2. Change the settings for the substream H.264 to MJPEG. Main stream only support H.264
3. Use http://user:pw@IPADDRESS:port/Streaming/channels/1/preview

[YEM (Jack S)]

@dchau11
@llcanada

Thanks for the info guys. I found the substream setting and changed it to MJPEG. Although I don’t know what that means. Do I have to point somewhere else to see the substream as opposed to the Main Stream?

And Dave, do I need to eliminate the use of port 554?

[dchau11 (DaveC)]

@YEM “Channels/1” mean for substream. For port 554, try to avoid it. It is the default transport layer port number for both TCP and UDP. You can use any port that you define as HTTP port for your camera. By default, the camera use 80 for HTTP.

[YEM (Jack S)]

Thanks Dave. I’m a bit noob at the camera stuff so I appreciate your time and help. Should I be able to use this URL in my browser to test to see if the stream comes up? (no I assume it doesn’t appear to be a proper url)

This is what I have inserted in SmartTiles (with a few pw / IP digits and letters changed around ):

http://admin:zebra88@73.83.264.1:9001/Streaming/channels/1/preview

Is that correct?

This is my config screen for the substream:

[dchau11 (DaveC)]

@YEM Yep, you can test out with your browser first.

[625alex (Alex, ActionTiles Control Panel)]

@nineismine

Hello, I hope i didn’t miss anything here but I have a goal to run SmartTiles on an Android Tablet. From what i can see it looks like I cannot use the Foscam videoStream via a browser on android though. Does anyone know if there is a way around that?

There are many people that use Foscam with Android tablets.

Please refer to this thread for video related information.

SmartTiles: Video Camera Compatibility

Dear all, Please post your questions and discoveries on the subject here. Staying on topic will help to find relevant information.

@nineismine

Also is there a way to do a custom tile that just displays the contents of a webpage?

This should be doable with an iFrame, but at this moment I don’t have a plan to implement this.

[625alex (Alex, ActionTiles Control Panel)]

@iSurvive

one of the standard browsers will work; they all say “Flash not Supported” on the Dropcam tile.

The greatest weakness of Dropcam is it’s dependance on Flash. Here it’s a common complaint and there is no easy workaround.

Does Puffin browser give a satisfactory experience when using SmartTiles?

[625alex (Alex, ActionTiles Control Panel)]

@akoziol99

For the Sonos text any way you can get the text to scroll instead of having it go over the buttons?

Yes, will add it to my list.

Which mount are you using for the iPod?

[akoziol99]

http://www.simplewallmount.com/

[nineismine (Chad Torkkola)]

What about a simple tile that let’s me add a url to an image? There’s a bunch of foscam code laying around that just refreshes snapshot. Cgi and doesn’t need any plug-ins to work.

[ehoffman73 (Eric)]

@lmosenko

@625alex. I have the same thing. I had to go to the ST app and refresh the Weather tile for the correct temp to show up.

I confirm the same thing is still true. Between than and Netamo integration not working I am having very different weather out my window than what ST says!

[iSurvive (Rob W.)]

It works, but the big issue is it’s half the tile size. I believe you mentioned there was an auto-sizing, or something like that, might be a fix. Looking forward to that update!

[lmosenko]

It is still happening to me tonight. I was checking to confirm my weather tile was working and it was still saying 84 degrees and no rain. Well it feels like 67 degrees and is raining outside now.
@625alex, are you certain ST is not doing something wrong on the back end which could be translating to this Weather tile issue?

[JDRoberts]

@lmosenko

It is still happening to me tonight. I was checking to confirm my weather tile was working and it was still saying 84 degrees and no rain. Well it feels like 67 degrees and is raining outside now.
@625alex, are you certain ST is not doing something wrong on the back end which could be translating to this Weather tile issue?

Is this the same weather issue?

[OBSOLETE] Smart Weather Station Tile Device

Curious to know whether anyone has had any difficulties with this tile refreshing. I have pollster set to poll the weather every 2 minutes, but when I wake up in the morning nothing has changed from the night before.