Im very much new to all this and just learning…at the moment I have life and Philips hue light bulbs and a eufy doorbell…I think I might try pick up a SmartThings Hub and then look into a thermostat, door sensors etc…
Hi Carlos - I don’t have a physical Hub either! 
All the devices I use can connect to Smarthings via the linked skill (for the most part except for my Tuya Switches which require a convoluted virtual switch arrangement) In fact I purposely try to avoid having to use devices which require the hub. Shelly devices are great, those are a simple integration as are TPLink/Kasa Switches - I wasn’t sure about the Shelly Door/Window wireless sensors initially as they were problematic to set up but fine now. Even my plug n play bulbs work directly without a hub.
I can even put my Nest Thermostats in there too but annoyingly, even though in SmartThings, they won’t port over to Sharptools yet (Google issue, not Sharp issue)
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Wow !..thanks, and how does “via the linked skill” work ?.. where can I find some of this ?
Add a device and select ‘by brand’ then just follow it from there - it will give you instruction to link the the cloud account for the brand you have purchased. Shelly devices are awesome - have you checked those out? The Relay series are tiny and will fit inside a normal switch box.
https://shop.shelly.cloud
See the separate thread on here on Tuya devices - what is odd is that some will work directly and some won’t. (If I knew before what I know now, I would have bought Kasa/TPLInk wall switches instead of the Treatlife (Tuya) switches.
But even those that don’t, you can create Virtual Switches in SmartThings, let Alexa discover them and set up automations in Alexa to link the virtual Switch and the actual switch. So you still don’t need a hub.
But many many devices don’t even need that and will link directly without requiring a virtual switch
Some.of the shelly vintage bulbs are awesome
@rog889 So I need to correct and walkback my statement a bit. My Hikvision cams aren’t on my main page because of the basis of wanting to have a page to go see all of them. My 8Mbps network usage that I said is what BlueIris uses when the cameras aren’t displayed. It jumps up to like 64Mbps (8Mbps per) network usage when the 8 cameras are on the external cams dashboard. That’s me streaming them at 720p. If I drop it down to 480p it would drop to like 32Mbps or about (4Mbps). I truly don’t care to see 1080p on my dashboard. It’s more to quickly see what’s going on either outside or in the house. That’s what we have the Hikvision NVR for the high quality. That being said since it’s just internal we use the 720p as our house wifi has 200mb down so no issue.
Here’s a bunch of the tweaks I made by the way:
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Would anyone be willing to help me create a dashboard, I a, very new to this, I am more than happy to pay for someone’s time , I’m literally wanting to have Amazon music and YouTube music to be able to be played in the centre screen with artwork, I want to control my hive system and then my lights, maybe air possible I can tweak a few bits, but happy to pay decent mo ey if someone can help me.
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Thanks so much for sharing!!!
Your killing it BRO!!!
When I turn on the heat to the hot tub I put this on my phone with an announcement when the temperature reaches 95 degrees.
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How/where did you get those volume up/down icons? I’m using media tiles that link to a rule to adjust volume which works great but the image I’m using is hideous.
Some dashboard examples using the Weather Widget Custom Tile.
Live Weather Widget
Horizontal (header) Weather Widget
You can find more information and import the Weather Widget for your dashboards here.
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With some help from @Michael s CSS examples I was able to come up with this pretty clean looking Alarm Dashboard that I am digging. Still want to modify the dashboard tiles at the top.
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Little late here but I found setting my blue iris ul3 link as a hyperlink tile worked the best for me. Included the tile on my alarm and main dashboards. So if I want to see my cams, pop the tile, and ul3 opens with all my feeds.
That’s really cool. I like the gradient on the tiles. And how you have differently sized tiles. Would you be willing to share your CSS so I could do something similar?
Sure. Little help for someone that doesn’t share often as the file is quite long. What’s the best way. Michael used a link for the original CSS that I have modified quite a bit, but not sure if that was to a shared drive or something else
Thanks! I imagine GitHub would be the best way to share.
Lets try this. Made it shareable from Google Drive. If it doesn’t work I will wait for the best practice once someone responds.
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Here is a link to Michael’s original post for some explanations. I changed the names from ex1 etc to names that helped me remember what each style was for…modified some colors etc, and embedded his background images in the code.
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