Icons and Colors based on States + Window Shades

Initialization idea would also work well, I think. It is currently tough job to update all color states if you have multiple sensors.

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My bad on the fan. Was using the wrong virtual driver in Hubitat! Fixed that and it works fine!!

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Hi Josh, tried to use the Temperature Sensor tile to map a 3 states switch (CAR ALARM: OFF, ON, TRIGGED)…

  1. Is there any other option than the Temperature Sensor?
  2. If Temperatire Sensor Tile is used, the icon seems to be forced to the Thermometer.

Maybe I also found a kinda bug when you try to use the == statement (having 3 states I tried to set temperature at 1,2,3 and I didnt work)

Thanks

Hi @Daniele_Vigna, welcome to the community!

Can you please post the link to the 3-state switch’s DTH, so we can take a look? Thanks.

Sorry James, im a newbie, whats DTH stands for?

You can customize the icon in the Tile Settings. :smiley:

Thanks! I’ll take a look at what it would take to loosen the equality comparisons. They’re currently a strict comparison, so we may need to loosen this a bit.

DTH = Device Type Handler, a custom device definition in SmartThings. Equivalent to a ‘Driver’ in the Hubitat ecosystem.

Edit: I would also note that it’s on our hitlist to bring this type of State Mapping / Color Configuration functionality to the Hero Attribute tile layout as well.

ok, got it… as I see from Josh I tried using the Thermo Sensor (Simulated Temperature Sensor)

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I’m glad there is an icon for blinds. I recently installed the IKEA smart blinds and have them set up as a device in SmartThings. When I try and add it to Sharp Tools it doesn’t show up. I went to my account, and manage my connections, logged in to my account, and it isn’t there. Am I missing something. I would love to monitor the blind in Sharp Tools. The blinds are IKEA FYRTUR and are one of the smart blinds in ST.

I had to authorize mine manually as noted in the original post

Thank you, that worked great. I’m new to ST and I always forget about using the classic app to solve problems. I hope they never kill it. What is interesting about the blinds is, ST appears to treat it like a dimmer. In the history you can see how it reports the stages as the blind opens, measured in % dimmed. 100% being fully open. Thanks again.

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This enhancement is included in the latest platform release:

:link: Security Icons and Thermostat Improvements

For some reason my IKEA blind disappeared from Sharptools. I had to use the Classic app to authorize it again. Any idea how this can be done in the new app when classic goes away?

You should be able to use the new app to manually authorize devices that don’t support one of the core capabilities. The instructions in the link @Chris_C posted were updated recently to reflect the steps in the ‘new’ app.

:link: How To Authorize Unrecognized Things

Once the new SmartThings API is ready and we transition over to it, Window Shades should come across with the default set of authorizations.

Yes @josh I agree, icons for Open Gate and Closed Gate would be great. Moving from ST and AT and this is one of the things I am missing.

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I’ll see if I can prioritize getting a basic ‘open’ variant of the gate icons in place for an upcoming release.

I might have been overthinking it trying to show the ‘perspective’ of the gate being partially open (eg. slanted) and I just couldn’t come up with something that looked nice. It might be easiest just to have an empty gate with just the posts showing.

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Partially open is how they usually are. The top icons are what is on my current AT dashboard. The bottom icons I used before on Home Remote.

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We recently implemented a proper Feature Request category with voting capabilities, so we can better understand the level of interest in various feature enhancements. If you are still interested in your feature request, please cast your vote in the relevant topic.

While you’re there, feel free to check out the other feature requests and cast your votes on the ones that interest you!

Hi @Turo_Jantunen - you can find the feature request for Templated Color States here:

:link: Templates for Color States

Hi @Kakadu_Dreamer and @Shawn_Raschke - you can find the request for an Open Gate Icon here:

:link: Icon Request: Open Gate

Hi I am looking into Sharptools as I am interested in the temperature state mapping - I would like to see at a glance if the temperature at certain devices is outside a particular range. But I need to know if the settings are per tile/device or a general template applied to all temperature tiles, since the reference range will be very different for my refrigerator than it is for my living room.

State mapping settings (including for temperatures) are per tile. :grinning:

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Is there a way to combine the power of the Hero tile rules with the Window Shade?

I’d like to have specific icons/styles for opening/closing/partially open in addition to open/closed.

I can do this with the Hero tile, but the actions are only do nothing/open hyperlink so essentially makes it a read-only tile.

The window shade icon/style can be edited but only for the two default values.

thanks!