Hello, is it possible to add printer icon? Thx
I don’t know that there IS a printer icon, is there? If you’ve seen one on another device, let me know what it is so I can look into it.
Hi @TAustin
In order for these icon options to appear in the app menu edit, you must put the profile with the SmartPlug category.
If someone uses any of those icons from the edit menu, they will no longer be able to switch to icons offered in preferences until uninstall and recreate the device.
The icons in the app’s edit menu take priority over the icons assigned in the profiles
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So here’s the deal: I had provided for the ability to change the icon to a specific set of alternatives in device settings. However I kept the device category itself to ‘switch’, so that it would still be recognized as such by other apps (Alexa, for example). The downside of this is that you don’t get the variety of icons available through the device edit menu for different categories of devices.
It is possible to add a device setting to choose to retain the switch device category vs. customize it based on icon selection. This would double the number of device profiles I need to create and maintain and add a little bit of code, but it is doable if it’s a critical requirement.
For me - it is definitely not a critical requirement… Thank you for your reply
Well don’t give up hope. I’m thinking about this some more. And my opinion is that using the switch control in this device (which is used for turning on and off monitoring) from some external source like Alexa or Action Tiles, is probably a pretty rare case. And therefore trying to preserve the switch category should not take precedence over providing a wider choice of icons. Afterall, this is a monitoring device for monitoring all sorts of different things, so it certainly should have a wide choice of icons.
So I think I’ve talked myself into it: I’ll go ahead and make the needed changes so that you’ll have access to more icons. Give me a day or so to get it done.
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DRIVER UPDATE NOTICE
I have pushed out an update to the LAN Device Monitor driver with these changes:
- Fix to labels on device Controls screen (you will have to create a new device to get the corrected labels)
- Change to the way the device is updated when you choose a different dashboard icon from the Settings options: previously the icon was changed without changing the device category, which was always defined as a switch category device no matter the icon. After this change, the device category will change along with the icon. In some cases this will provide access to more icons. For example if you choose a plug icon, then you will have new icons selectable from the device Edit menu that weren’t available before.
- If you have an existing LAN Device Monitor device and want to benefit from this change, simply choose a new icon from the Settings options. If you already have plug selected and want to get the additional icons, temporarily change the icon to something else, then change it back to plug. This way, you don’t have to create a new device. (@Neudy)
- A ‘multifunction sensor’ has been added to the list of dashboard icon options. As noted above, this will also provide access to further icon choices in the device Edit menu. A new device will need to be created in order to see this new option listed in the Settings options.
Updated Driver Version: 2023-01-18T01:17:18.191320741
This update will be automatically installed on your hub, so no action is required other than those noted above.
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Can I ask - how are you doing this? I am new to Tasker and I can’t, for the life of me, figure out how you can switch on and off a device from it?
I was using Life360 - which is now kaput.
Switched to Tasker so my other half can have it running in the background and not even have to do anything which is paramount for my sanity haha
Current way I am doing this is:
Tasker → Wifi Connected → HTTP POST to Sharptools → Turns on Smartthings Virtual Edge Presence
It looks as though you have a FREE version of doing this by your images? How do I trigger a virtual device using HTTP POST? Is the web address a simple api.smartthings.com/v1/home hub name/room location/device?
Please do let me know or point me in the right direction if you can, would save me a fee which I hate paying for
Would just like to say I figured it. Was all spelt out here and took some long winded Googling for it to show up haha:
Works like a dream so far!
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I’m glad it helped. If you need any further help with tasker please feel free to reach out.
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Hi
I am using the driver to retrieve the status of an old samsung smart TV. It works but detects frequent exceptions even when the TV is off.
The TV probably connects even when it is on standby.
Is there any way to avoid this problem?
I’m not sure there is much we can do about it. Are you turning your TV off, or do you just let it go to sleep with the power on?
Your TV definitely seems to be ‘waking up’ periodically and advertising itself on the network and then going back asleep.
I also have an older Samsung smart TV and it just stays offline when it’s turned off.
I’m doing the same and with the Samsung TV on LAN Device monitor shows it going on and off every few minutes. I put it down to the TV.
Sorry for the very big Noob question. Im new to automation. Im enjoying smartthings and Ive invested a lot in products that are compatible with this platform. But I have o little thing that I cannot solve by myself. I no longer wish to use the inboard geofencing from smartthings. I wish to use a presence sensor that gets turned on by my iPhone when connected to my house's Wifi. Ive enrolled in the Edge Driver by the invitation link, but there are many drivers to be installed and I dont know which to choose to do the job. By my sense it's the LAN Presence Sensor, but how do I set it up? I tied to type Iphones IP address but that did no good.
I know that it might be more complicated that that. Is there a Tutorial for Noobs?
Thank you in advance.
Hello, welcome to the community!
Please see the instructions in this README file under the ‘SmartThings Integration’ heading.
Let me know if you have any questions and I’d be glad to help.
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I MADE IT ! Thank you very much. Next, I must buy a raspberry pi to run it. I`m running a windows PC and I’m afraid of the windows updates ruining my setup
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Has anyone had success at getting this to monitor a Windows computer?
I am using it for monitoring a Windows computer.
Follow these instructions: https://thegeekpage.com/enable-disable-dlna-server/
I have found that sometimes the dlna server gets disabled randomly and I have to turn it back on, I haven’t figured out why yet.
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