SmartTiles Dashboard v5.5: Added UK 🇬🇧, 5 × Dashboards, and more! Nov 6, 2015

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Well… It would be pretty dumb if a garage door control device doesn’t claim “Capability (Garage) Door”, so the Device Type really should try…

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Version 5.6 - Release Staged for Rollout…

Just a heads up that SmartTiles v5.6 will be deployed over the next 48 hours, barring any last minute bug discoveries.

We currently have the ability to deploy to individual child SmartApps (e.g., SmartTiles [5]), as well as UK vs. USA. So the deployment will start with a relatively small set of users in the UK, with only a subset of child dashboards, and then continue in a couple more waves.

More details, including pre-release notes, will be in a new Linked Topic soon, so please stay tuned. Other channels (Twitter, website, and email list) will also be notified. (This is a relatively minor release with a few good bug fixes and a few new features, including enhanced diagnostics to your Live Logging – to help us pin down the persistent but randomly dispersed fatal errors some folks are experiencing…)

Updates are automatic – there is no need to uninstall or reinstall or reconfigure. But … If you wish to check your version number; see the top of the SmartApp Preferences / Configuration screen for each child.

Thanks for all your continued support! Please keep in mind our current "User Support Policy" as questions come up about this release. Seeing multiple reports here in the Forum will help identify any bugs we might not catch in advance: SmartTiles Dashboard v5.5: Added UK 🇬🇧, 5 × Dashboards, and more! Nov 6, 2015

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Actually the device we are using (the GD00Z series of openers) has a sensor to determine door status and I believe the opener won’t function remotely if the contact sensor is not synced to the door opener module.

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That’s what I thought…

I actually don’t think there is much need for a difference between “Capability Door” and “Capability Garage Door”; except that the latter is more likely to have motorized open/close commands. But I have an ongoing pet peeve with the lack of consistent granularity in Capability definitions.

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@garyd9, @625alex, and @tgauchat, with much help from @Ron I was able to perform a diff on the code I am using and the code @garyd9 posted in January and it is an exact match.

@Ron also has a device type with code posted on github that makes a few (16) changes including adding the Garage Door Control capability. See RG Linear GD00z Garage Door Opener if you are interested in seeing his code.

I really appreciate all the help you and all the members of the community have given me to overcome the few shortcomings of SmartThings. It really is amazing what can be accomplished with group effort.

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Sorry to divert from the current topics, but I wanted to see if someone could help.
I finally managed to get my D-Link 7010L wired and linked to my Dashboard. This camera will get relocated to the front door over the weekend once I run ethernet cable to my front porch. My question is rather simple, but I cannot seem to figure it out - how do I change the size of the tile for the camera? I want it to be slightly bigger and square if possible. Any help or guidance is gladly appreciated.

@tgauchat @625alex

Here is my current layout on my dashboard

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From within the latest version of the SmartApp there is a section names Preferences > Video Tile Size

There are only 2 choices - Small and Medium. Medium makes the camera feed appear in a larger tile.

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Thanks @BD0G… it was right in my face and I overlooked it. Thats exactly what I wanted - much appreciated

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Hi All,

I just added the garage door control capability to the capability reference docs. There is no technical difference between door control and garage door control.

The specific use case for one over the other is to have the ability to only choose devices with the specified capability. i.e. If you have a garage door smartapp, you probably only want to be able to choose devices that implement the garage door capability instead of getting a list of all doors.
That is the only difference I could see/think of. If I find some more information regarding this capability, I will update the docs and respond to this thread.

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Hi Dave – Thanks for the clarification and you’re mostly right …

I’d like to correct your assumption and say “you might only want to offer to allow the choice of devices with Garage Door Capability”. If you have a SmartApp that’s, say, checking “Are any of my doors open?”, then any door would do. a SmartApp that’s call “Let Someone into the House” also would work with any automatic door (or, even a door with a motorized connected Lock).

I guess we are off Topic, but the idea is we’d really like for the Capability filter on the input() preference to allow boolean operators (and, or) … so that Capabilities could have varying degrees of granularity. Instead of a Garage Door Capability, your input statement could say “Capability Door OR Capability Garage Door”, or it could say “Capability Contact Sensor AND Capability Open/Close”. This would also allow a lighting SmartApp to not present overlapping lists of devices if you want nearly “everything” and could set the filter to “Capability Sensor OR Capability Actuator”.

For further discussion, please feel welcome respond over in the Capabilities Category where I discussed this concept many months ago…

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SmartTiles v5.6.x is now fully deployed.

For further information and discussion, please head over to the new Topic:

@slagle, @jody, or @Ben: At your convenience, Please feel welcome to lock :lock_with_ink_pen: this here SmartTiles “v5.5” Topic from further posts, but keep it publically open for reading / reference. Thank-you!

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Can I change the size of the Home Mode tile? I don’t understand why it is a double-tile when the extra real estate is not required.

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Good idea to make this an option perhaps in an update release. The Tiles for Mode and SHM were designed to standout from others; no particular reason.

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On my fourth dashboard when I go to get the URL, I get:

{“error”:“OAuth token is invalid or access has been revoked”}

The first three worked fine.

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Go to the Preferences / Security page in the child-dashboard SmartApp configuration and select “Tap to revoke Access Token”. Then go back and fetch the new URL.

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@darrenofkent You can also change it in the css by using .tile.mode{width:150px}

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How/where do I make that change to the css?

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Enter the full URL of your Dashboard into a browser, but replace “ui” with “css”…

  • CSS can now be edited outside of the SmartTiles “SmartApp configuration pages” by going to URL: https://graph.api.smartthings.com/api/smartapps/installations/<your_SmartTiles_AppID_from_the_Dashboard_URL>/css
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Got what I think is an odd one. I have two instances of the same device showing up in my dashboard. BUT, when I go to look at the smartApp where I can choose which devices appear in smartTiles, there is only one of them.

I have Breakfast Bar showing as a light in Tiles, and it responds just fine. The device type is Z-wave switch in SmartThings.

I also have Breakfast Bar showing a non-dimming switch, and it does not respond to commands.

I’ve looked through My Devices and there’s no rogue Breakfast Bar switch. This is probably a result of having to remove and re-add a misbehaving in wall switch, but that switch is gone from SmartThings, while it still shows up in SmartTiles.

Help?

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It would not be unusual for SmartThings’s cloud database to be messed up (i.e., where it stores the settings / devices for the SmartTiles SmartApp).

You deselect both devices and wait a while to see if things sync up eventually.

Or delete the entire child dashboard and rebuild it. That will delete an entire record from the Cloud and is more like a clean slate…