[ST Edge] Can presentation include multiple detail view display types for same custom capability?

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I tried to create a presentation which includes both a ‘slider’ and a ‘state’ in the detail view. Is that not allowed? Each works fine if it’s the only entry, but when combined, I only see the ‘state’. Nothing was dropped from the presentation when viewed from the CLI.

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Not at present. A custom capability can display one attribute using one display type per view (dash/detail/conditions/actions).

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Indeed, you can only use one display type in each view of a single capability presentation.
If your custom capability has an attribute that can receive a command, the current value is displayed and you can control the widget included (slider, +/- symbols, etc.), so there’s no need to show them separately.
Generally, we use the dashboard view to show the status of the capabilities and you can create a custom device configuration to show multiple capability status and action buttons there.

For example, in this presentation, I added the status of the “main” switch and the one of “switchTwo” in both dashboard.states and dashboard.actions, and assigned a different name to the property “group” (that’s what does the trick):

{
   "type":"profile",
   "dashboard":{
      "states":[
         {
            "component":"main",
            "capability":"switch",
            "version":1,
            "group":"main",
            "values":[]
         },
         {
            "component":"switchTwo",
            "capability":"switch",
            "version":1,
            "group":"Switch-2",
            "values":[]
         }
      ],
      "actions":[
         {
            "component":"main",
            "capability":"switch",
            "version":1,
            "idx":0,
            "group":"main"
         },
         {
            "component":"switchTwo",
            "capability":"switch",
            "version":1,
            "idx":0,
            "group":"Switch-2"
         }
      ]
   },
   "detailView":[
      {
         "component":"main",
         "capability":"switch",
         "version":1,
         "values":[]
      },
      {
         "component":"switchTwo",
         "capability":"switch",
         "version":1,
         "values":[]
      }
   ],
   "automation":{
      "conditions":[
         {
            "component":"main",
            "capability":"switch",
            "version":1,
            "values":[]
         },
         {
            "component":"switchTwo",
            "capability":"switch",
            "version":1,
            "values":[]
         }
      ],
      "actions":[
         {
            "component":"main",
            "capability":"switch",
            "version":1,
            "values":[]
         },
         {
            "component":"switchTwo",
            "capability":"switch",
            "version":1,
            "values":[]
         }
      ]
   }
}

This is the result:

multiTiles
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In my scenario, the ‘slider’ has an integer range 0-3 and the ‘state’ shows a textual representation of the same attribute via ‘alternatives’.

I didn’t know that the ‘dashboard’ view supported multiple attributes. I’ve never seen such a device in the wild. All my current devices display a single attribute and the tiles are all uniform height.