If those attributes don’t have any data in them from your source platform (eg. SmartThings / Hubitat / Home Assistant), then they won’t show anything in SharpTools.
If you need additional logic or customization of the actions, Rules are generally the way to go. If the device has a command that supports adjusting the volume in bigger increments, you could use rules.
Also note that you can pass parameters to the rules using the special $.runRule() hyperlink syntax. That way you could use a single rule, pass in a parameter (for example, the target device name), and have conditions in the rule that acted accordingly.
Super Tiles support the data that comes from Things and Variables along with the ability to map those into Icons.
From the Comparison: Super Tiles, Custom Tiles, and Regular Tiles help article:
Many of the basic tiles are almost like mini “apps” – they provide a smooth, tailored experience that’s intuitive to use ‘out-of-the-box’. If you could pull back the curtain, you’d find quite a bit of logic to provide such a smooth experience. As such, you may find that Basic Tiles are more feature-rich (for their targeted use-case) than you could accomplish with Hero Attribute or Super Tiles.
The goal with Super Tiles is not to recreate all the features of every single tile (as each one is like a mini app… and that’s what a dashboard does). The design goal was was for those cases where an existing base tile did not exist for the data/icons/actions.
I would recommend reading the linked article, but I might summarize it as:
- If you need the rich features of a basic tile, use the basic tile.
- …to display 1-2 custom attributes, use a Hero Attribute tile
- …to display multiple data/icons in a custom layout, use Super Tiles
- …a fully custom tile (like a mini ‘app’), use a Custom Tile (developer)