Ability to turn tile on/off based on variable

[simon]

I am moving from Allonis MyServer. One of the nice features of that platform is the ability to have objects appear and disappear based on a variable state. You could also have this happen in the same screen real estate through the use of layers.

For example, I have a button appear in the same place at different times of day - such as wake up routine, then later in the day evening lights, then get ready for bed, etc.

I found one discussion on turning tiles on and off - perhaps there are more that I couldn’t find:

Launching a particular dashboard or tile based on rule

With Fully Kiosk Browser, yes, the media tiles will continue to refresh in the background when the screensaver is active. Fully Kiosk Browser basically just layers the screensaver on top of the existing page.

If this is worthy of a feature request then I could provide more information? Thanks.

[simon]

As I dig around I feel like I should be able to use the configure style/icon to accomplish some if not all of this:

Configure Style/Icon by Attribute Value

We’re excited to announce the next SharpTools.io release which brings with it Style / Icon State Mapping for Custom Attributes. [State Mapping for Custom Attributes] This release closes the following popular feature request: https://community.sharptools.io/t/style-icon-state-mapping-for-custom-attributes/4163 This release builds upon the existing state mapping feature, but opens up the ability to define custom states for the following tiles: Hero Attribute Tile Nu…

However, I don’t know where to get started with this? Some specific examples:

I want to create a tile that display alarm status - Armed - Home, Armed - Away, Off. I could create multiple things - one for each state and then use rules to set a text string in a single variable. Then I could set states for one tile based on the variable states. Am I on the right track? I built all of this but I don’t know how to add the display of that variable on a tile with the cascading state options as described in the style icon by attribute. For example display one of three different icons and text line based on the state of this variable. Thanks.

[josh]

@simon

For example, I have a button appear in the same place at different times of day - such as wake up routine, then later in the day evening lights, then get ready for bed, etc.

In theory, you could have a single tile do different things based on the time of day using Rule tiles. The idea would be to create a rule that ran different actions based on time (or other conditions).

If you wanted the style to have a different look or different words displayed, you could probably accomplish it with a Variable - for example, a Text variable that would have it’s value set at different times of day based on a rule. Then the tile would be configured to run another rule which could run different actions based on the value of the variable.

@simon

One of the nice features of that platform is the ability to have objects appear and disappear based on a variable state.

One of the challenges is that tiles are automatically reflowed left-to-right, top-to-bottom. So if a tile actually disappeared it would shift the rest of the content around.

There’s some tricks using Styles that could achieve a tile visually disappearing (going transparent) or swapping out the icon/text based as alluded to above.

My suspicion is there’s probably certain scenarios that could be accomplished today… and certain scenarios that would require a different layout model.