Contact Tile questions

[kampto]

Whats the difference between “Icon States” and Style States" clicking on the brings the same options for a contact sensor. Both have same Icon and state selections

And for Contact sensor, for it to change the Style(color or what ever) between the 2 states is actually looking for an “Open” or “Closed” primary value? Because I have contact devices that run a custom DH which sends the states as “Full” or “Empty”, etc… These will show up as the primary attribute in the tile which is what I want but the state Styles wont change.
Thanks…

[James]

Icon is to select specific icon for each state (open/close in this case) and Style is to use the predefined style or custom style (color, border width, animation and etc) for each state. Both are related to the “state mapping” concept, but just to configure different things.

@kampto

And for Contact sensor, for it to change the Style(color or what ever) between the 2 states is actually looking for an “Open” or “Closed” primary value?

That’s correct. It will look for the expected state based on the available states documented for the specific capability, and you may want to update the device handler accordingly.

[kampto]

Is there a way to set the secondary attribute for a Contact tile? I can do it in Hero but then cant change tile style+icon with contact state change. Or will Hero change style with Open/Closed states? Contact layout is auto populating 2nd attribute with no way to change it. That way I can write the DH to pass my custom text to 2nd attribute, like; “Full”, “Empty”, “Off”, etc…

Edit: Doesn’t look like there’s a way to accomplish this, tried several things. Would need the following added.

1. Add Icon to theme/style customizations
2. Add “None” to primary attribute. So its Icon only if thats whats wanted.
3. To get a bit more crazy, Add secondary attribute selections to the primary attribute selections as a sub menu. Buts states would still be detected by primary attribute.

[josh]

@kampto

Or will Hero change style with Open/Closed states?

The Hero Attribute Tile can be configured to change styles with the contact states and will change with open/closed values. More generally speaking, the Hero Attribute tile will switch between the ‘active’ and ‘default’ styles based on the Active Color Attribute that you configure within the tile settings.

It must follow the defined capability model though.

Since you’re using a custom device, you could set the primary and/or secondary attributes as any attribute that you wanted to display even custom attributes that aren’t part of the capability models. Then for the active color setting on the Hero attribute tile, you could configure it to point to an attribute which properly implements whatever capability you want (Switch, Motion, Presence, etc).

[josh]

@kampto

I can do it in Hero but then cant change tile style+icon with contact state change

There’s a feature request open to customize the icon and/or color settings for the hero attribute tile that you can vote on in the following thread:

Style/Icon State Mapping for Custom Attributes

Request: It would be great if the Hero Attribute tile could have a State Mapping feature similar to what’s available in the Temperature Sensor tile. – This feature is now available! – The fully customizable state mapping feature is currently only for Temperature Sensor tiles. [image] Other tile types like Switch, Contact Sensor, and others with a fixed set of states have a simplified state mapping feature. [image]

@kampto

Add “None” to primary attribute. So its Icon only if thats whats wanted.

I don’t think that there is an existing feature request for this, but you could definitely create one!

Feature Requests

[kampto]

Added feature request, thanks.

Hero Attribute Tile: Icon Only Display (None for Primary Attribute)

For the Hero Attribute tile, it would be helpful there was an option of “None” for the Primary Attribute that could be selected if you want the tile to be Icon Only.