Looking for implementation inspiration

[josh]

Thanks for sharing, @Alex_Burrows!

@James posted details on a similar approach using virtual devices to aggregate status using the Rule Engine in the following post:

Request: Link to Dashboard from Aggregated Data

I believe @Thomas_Howard meant he aggregates the status literally in “SmartApp” in SmartThings IDE. Alternatively, you can aggregate the status using Rule Engine without coding. Create virtual device in SmartThings, and use Rule Engine in SharpTools.io to update the virtual device’s status when real devices’ status change. Then this virtual device can be added as in the dashboard as the aggregated status. Here is a quick Rule Engine example: In Triggers: Trigger the rule when any of lights is…

I would also note that with the newest beta features, you could use a true/false variable in place of the virtual devices - making this a bit easier to setup.

We also just added a new feature to the Variable tiles (in beta) this evening that enables you to change the action of the tile to Hyperlink. I believe this will help you achieve the full vision of what you are looking to do as you can choose to either make the ‘container’ tiles run a Rule which toggles the lights in the ‘container’ on/off accordingly (using the new $.runRule("RULEID") syntax)… or even just use it as a normal hyperlink to navigate to another dashboard showing all the lights in the ‘container’.