Something big is coming! (June 2021 app update)

Ugh and now nothing works for me

As I have commented before, I believe that ‘one app’ is one too few apps and it would be nice to have ‘our app’ back. I don’t have a problem with there being a weather tile, but as you say why does it link to a web site when it could be showing us the data that is in SmartThings? If you ask the API the right questions it will spew out the current weather conditions, a forecast of sorts, and the air quality information (and there is also an option for weather alerts but I’ve never seen what that looks like). So there is plenty of interesting stuff in there.

Maybe that sort of thing is all in the works, but I just worry it will be kept out of sight even more than mobile presence information is.

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Whatever you did to the app has totally broken my home setup. I cannot open a single device on my phone ST app. All devices online per the web but the app is essentially dead and unconnected.

The smartthings app, this version and the previous one, takes the weather information from that same web page, as seen at the bottom of the favorites page, with the time of the last update.

It seems logical to me that it shows you the weather information from the same source that it uses to run the automations with weather conditions in your area.

I think is the same weather web in IDE for smart lighting app, sunrise and sunset time.


By the way, time for sunrise
and sunset in IDE Location, it is not updated if you do not have the smat lighting app installed, but this does not affect automations with sunset and sunrise in the smartthings app. They run fine even if you don’t have that data right in IDE.

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Why not show the information SmartThings actually has though?

{
  "locationId": "REDACTED",
  "weather": {
    "iconCode": {
      "value": 4
    },
    "cloudCeiling": {
      "value": 1400,
      "unit": "m"
    },
    "cloudCoverPhrase": {
      "value": "Cloudy"
    },
    "expirationTime": {
      "value": 1624287799000
    },
    "relativeHumidity": {
      "value": 89,
      "unit": "%"
    },
    "sunriseTimeLocal": {
      "value": "2021-06-21T03:40:43.000Z"
    },
    "sunsetTimeLocal": {
      "value": "2021-06-21T20:22:51.000Z"
    },
    "temperature": {
      "value": 13,
      "unit": "C"
    },
    "temperatureFeelsLike": {
      "value": 12,
      "unit": "C"
    },
    "uvDescription": {
      "value": "Moderate"
    },
    "uvIndex": {
      "value": 3
    },
    "visibility": {
      "value": 11.27,
      "unit": "Km"
    },
    "windDirection": {
      "value": 30,
      "unit": "°"
    },
    "windDirectionCardinal": {
      "value": "NNE"
    },
    "windSpeed": {
      "value": 16,
      "unit": "Km/h"
    },
    "wxPhraseLong": {
      "value": "Rain"
    },
    "weatherDetailUrl": {
      "value": "https://weather.com/weather/today/l/BORING?par=samsung_stdash"
    },
    "vendor": {
      "value": "TheWeatherChannel"
    },
    "version": {
      "value": "v3.0"
    },
    "lastUpdateTime": {
      "value": "2021-06-21T15:00:42.000Z"
    }
  }

}
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Is anyone else noticing ‘different’ behaviour when adding devices? I had to re-pair one of my Ikea Buttons as I have done many times lately. Normally I just treat it like adding a new button and you end up with the existing label and indeed the same device so you don’t have to mess with automations. Today it was different. Apart from some cosmetic tweaks to the onboarding pages, the device paired as a new device with the ‘Ikea Remote Control’ name and I’ve had to add it to webCoRE again.

did your hub blink green mine is not, Cant add new or old devices, it says it is ide but devices not pairing.

Oh yes it paired fine. Just as a new device instead of the existing one which is unusual.

It also did the annoying thing where it showed several devices that had previously been paired successfully using ‘Scan Nearby’. That’s been happening for yonks though.

at least you can pair. Came home from a 3 hour drive and all the z-wave and ZigBee devices not work the main issue is one dimmable bulb my wife uses to put my son down for a nap wasn’t work spent most of fathers day trying to fix it GGRREEAATT. LOVE SMARTHING UPDATES.

So maybe they’ve just decided that long-term smartthings will go for being the primary android UI for matter and they’re going to abandon iOS users?

Because they have now without warning dropped the Apple Watch app, cut the number of iOS widgets from 8 to 4, and really really messed up the most recent iOS update (Which arrived later than android update, adding insult to injury but at least delaying the injury by a few days).

That’s a serious thought, although I don’t have any evidence one way or the other. I’m just going by what I see. :thinking:

Without the intention of offending anyone, lt show this for me, I like it better.
It seems to me that the information is the same!
Also, I see that it comes from the same source “The Weather Channel” and updated at the same time

To me it is like clicking on a tile for a Hue bulb and having the Hue app open up.

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SOMETHING BIG IS COMING

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I think it’s perfect that you don’t like it.
But the comparison does not seem correct to me, hahaha

Clicking on a mosaic with basic weather information, temperature and current weather, have to give access to all the information that each user can and wants to see, not just the one that the app developer wants to show.
In this case it seems perfect to me. I can see all the information without having to open another weather app.

There is nothing written about tastes and we need an app for each user.
The most important thing for all, that it works well

I use the rboy “Low Battery Notification and Monitoring” app to monitor battery levels and it has a summary of all battery levels for devices. http://www.rboyapps.com/

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My iPhone no longer shows up in webcore after the update. Anyone else have this happen?

If you uninstalled/reinstalled the app, you would need to enable get location from this phone in the ST app > menu > settings. You can add it to your webcore instance > settings > available devices > available devices > select device by capability > capability group 2 > which presence sensor

Thanks @jkp, that worked! I don’t recall having to go through those steps when I first started using webcore. I’m not sure I would have ever found these steps to fix my issue. I appreciate it!

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Can anyone point me to where I control the items enabled for the top row of the new “favorites” page (which in my case show tiles for weather, STHM and a couple of seemingly randomly chosen devices I’d prefer to not see there)? “Edit Favorites” only shows stuff below that row.

if you click on the 3 dots in the upper right of the screen… you will see two options:

Edit favorites: where you can remove STHM, Smart Lock Guest Access and Scenes
Show status information: to hide the weather tile and the Monitoring tile

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