ST App the weakest part of the system?

[geko]

Here’s just a few threads asking to add labels to ‘things’ view:

Today:

App Use Best Practice - Control from 'Things' or 'Lights & Switches'

So, as I’m adding new connected switches to the app, I’m amassing a lot of ‘Things’, but they’re hard to identify. As extensive as the icon library is, there are only so many ways you can iconize a light fixture. I noticed that you can shake the phone to reveal the names for a split second, but that’s inconvenient, and I find that I’m turning lights on and off through muscle memory alone. I can make groups of lights for rooms with several, but this gets inconsistent with a room with just one light (e.g., Laundry Room). It doesn’t fit into another category, but I can’t make single-Things their own group. Then it occurred to me that maybe I’m using it wrong. Is “Things” supposed to just be a library, while “Lights & Switches” has the intent of setting up single or multiple groups of li…

Jun 2014

Device Names viewable and displayed by default on home screen

My arms and hands are paralyzed, like millions of others. Shaking the mobile device like my iphone or ipad in order to display device names is IMPOSSIBLE for me and others. The default should be just like the image on smartthings website homepage. A person must click the gear icon on each individual device in order to identify the name of the device. When you have 10+ device unnamed icons don’t cut it, period! Please fix this. Other necessary changes needed: View in Landscape mode (A must) Device list appear immediately when opening app. I pray for these fixes to fall into the hands that can make it so.

Jun 2014

Naming things on the "Things" page

How do I name the icons in the “Things” page? I look at it and cannot see, for example, which player is which player. They all have the same icon and no description. What will happen when I add 200 zwave nodes? Thanks, Pete [image]

May 2013

Seeing Thing Names in Main Menu

I don’t know if anyone else has mentioned this little trick already, but I have seen several posts asking for Thing names to be shown on the main menu in the app. I too would like this, nice bold letters at the bottom of each tile with the name I gave that Thing, such as front door lock or whatever. Anyway, until that occurs, if you shake your phone when on the main app menu page, the names of each Thing temporarily appears in the center of each tile. Thought this might be helpful to someone.

Feb 2013

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…