Music, Weather, Spacers, and Media Tiles

Looks great, Josh!

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@josh 2 things.

  1. I can’t remove these ‘placeholders’ I edit and click on the ‘X’ but nothing?

  2. I installed a couple switches today that control lights. Why can’t I make the icon do what other bulbs do? Light up.

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Thanks for the heads up on not being able to remove the placeholders. I’ll take a look and see what’s going on. In the meantime, you might try removing the tile from another device.

What type of Thing is the new Thing which doesn’t light up? If I remember correctly it’s only Things which implement the switch capability that glow - if you can share the device type, I’ll look into it. I noticed that it shows ‘Held’ in the secondary attribute line which makes me wonder if it’s being recognized as a button.

Edit: Placeholders are Things which are no longer authorized. The other workaround would be to reauthorize the Things so you can remove them from the dashboard and then deauthorize them.

The light is a inovelli wall switch. I’m using it as a light. I like the lights.

I’ll try removing the placeholders with your suggestion.

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I was easily able to remove placeholder from tablet. Just wasn’t able to on the phone. FYI.

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I just pushed a hotfix which should resolve the issue with being able to tap the ‘X’ to remove placeholder tiles on iOS devices. Thanks again for reporting it.

PS. I looked into the device in question that you would like to glow when it is active… it reports itself as a button and a switch. I have a few ideas on how to achieve your desired functionality and I’ve added it to the hit list.

Edit: Switches are now prioritized over Buttons for device display. (reference)

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Works awesome. Thanks @josh

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Hi everyone,
in the weather tile, it displays the wind speed of mph despite the fact that the real speed is in kph. What can I do with this?

Robert-
Thanks for the message. Which home automation platform do you have connected to SharpTools which is displaying the weather?

The weather tile will automatically try to pull in the unit of measure for the wind attribute and will fall back to MPH if the units are not available. We’ve noted that the units don’t appear to be coming across with Hubitat events and are looking into it. :slight_smile:

josh,
to SharpTools I have connected smartthings via Smartweather Station Tile 2.0, my location is in Europe and I use km/h (kph). In the mobile application smartthings displays the units correctly…

and something else
I use picoreplayer (LMS). In Media Manager I’ve inserted a link to the dynamic album cover:
http: //picoreplayer/music/current/cover.jpg
The LMS server is local but does not display nothing.

Thanks for the details. I’ll look into it and see if I can reproduce it. :slight_smile:

Does the picoreplayer require some sort of authentication or login to access the specified URL?

If you open up a new browser tab in Incognito mode and then try to access the same URL, what happens? Does the page stream a raw JPEG file (as the URL seems to indicate) or is it some sort of HTML wrapper?

In the private mode in the web browser does not actually display the album cover. There is no problem in the normal mode “http://picoreplayer/music/current/cover” without JPG . There is also no problem in “The Home Remote” and “The Home Remote Designer” windows apps.

Edit:

I apologize for the correct link to http://picoreplayer:9000/music/current/cover.jpg course with 9000 port. In private mode the web browser is displayed.

So in Incognito/Private Mode, if you access the URL http://picoreplayer:9000/music/current/cover.jpg you are seeing the raw image as expected without having to login at all? Can you post a screenshot of what your Media Tile configuration looks like?

Yes, without having to login

https://imgur.com/a/woLWAkW

Thanks for sharing the album with the various screenshots. :slight_smile: That is odd that the photo isn’t showing.

If you open the browser’s developer tools with F12 and inspect the missing image in the Create Media screen, what does the URL show?

This is what you asked for:

https://imgur.com/a/kqicPdB

thank you in advance :grinning:

Thanks. From what I can tell, everything looks fine with how things are getting setup in SharpTools…

Have you tried in another browser like Google Chrome?

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Yes. This edge web browser is guilty.
I don`t know why I did not check before. :exploding_head:
Firefox and Chrome work.
Thank you very much for your help. :grinning:

ps

Could you add the ON/OFF function to the media player?
It can be helpful when I turn on the media player and my amplifier can turn on too and other operating buttons.

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Hi i was trying to add the weather tile to the sharptools tiles and I do all that is instructed nothing happens in the SmartThings app when I click on it it said “can not connect to device. Chance Device and try again”. Can you help me try to set it up see what I did wrong? Also I will like to put like a radio player on the tiles or any music player what can I do? Thanks in advance

WARNING: The WeatherStation 2.0 will likely stop working in February 2019. It is recommended to use the SmartThings provided WeatherStation Tile instead.

Anthony, thanks for the message. Can you clarify what you’ve tried? Since you are on SmartThings, I would recommend installing the community developed SmartWeather Station 2.0. See note above about the SmartWeather Station 2.0 Tile expected to break in February 2019.

The post linked immediately above includes a link to his custom code as well as some instructions on how to install it. Once you’ve installed and configured the device in SmartThings, be sure to authorize it in SharpTools so you can add it to your dashboard. :slight_smile:

For the Media Player tiles, you’ll need to have some sort of device connected to SmartThings which implements the Music Player capability. Do you have any media/music devices connected to SmartThings already?