# \[APP\]\[Pro\] Device Capabilities - Enhance the capabilities of devices **URL:** \ **Category:** Apps\ **Tags:** flow, virtual-device, homey-pro, device-capabilities, avd\ **Created:** [February 19, 2021, 8:20am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287 "2021-02-19T08:20:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 25
**Author:** ![Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/arie_j_godschalk/32/63027_2.png) [@Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://community.homey.app/u/Arie_J_Godschalk)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/487 "2022-09-08T21:23:52Z")
> [@HuisCHovens](#): > > Could it be a possibility to reverse number and text in status ? sometimes it looks even tighter. Example of thermostat mode and then the set temperature behind it. Do you mean at the Sensor Tab or the Device Tile? ---
**Author:** ![HuisCHovens](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/huischovens/32/16973_2.png) [@HuisCHovens](https://community.homey.app/u/HuisCHovens)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 9:26pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/488 "2022-09-08T21:26:15Z")
The first you can change with flows status indicator field ![Screenshots_2022-09-08-22-54-09](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/b/7/b7cb909a95aef00401118de5c895e823b278a0b2.png) Standard is this number and then text. ---
**Author:** ![Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/arie_j_godschalk/32/63027_2.png) [@Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://community.homey.app/u/Arie_J_Godschalk)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 9:30pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/489 "2022-09-08T21:30:46Z")
> [@HuisCHovens](#): > > Standard is this number and then text. No, i cannot reverse it (as far as i know). Maybe in the future, but i got a lott of work re-writing the Device Setting, that comes first. ---
**Author:** ![HuisCHovens](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/huischovens/32/16973_2.png) [@HuisCHovens](https://community.homey.app/u/HuisCHovens)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 9:33pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/490 "2022-09-08T21:33:35Z")
Oke is not bad its great app ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 10:05pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/491 "2022-09-08T22:05:17Z")
> [@Arie\_J\_Godschalk](#): > > Yeah, i am not done, just wanted to show you šŸ˜‰ Not important now, Iā€™m just surprised you come up with that ā€˜workaroundā€™ or ā€˜hackā€™ or whatever you call this. Iā€™ll be happy if it works when adding AVdevices to add the desired fields. Question (DareToAsk): Is it even possible to copy or clone an existing AVdevice? Or, base a new device on a ā€˜templateā€™ device? Usecase: I create a AVD for a window blind, with numericfield position indicator and a on/off button (like on=down off=up) I need that for each of my 15 blinds. So I can create another 14 of them, or (the question) just copy the first one as a new device, and then on and on. ---
**Author:** ![Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/arie_j_godschalk/32/63027_2.png) [@Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://community.homey.app/u/Arie_J_Godschalk)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 10:07pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/492 "2022-09-08T22:07:26Z")
> [@Peter\_Kawa](#): > > Is it even possible to copy or clone an existing AVdevice? Yes, that would be possible, i allready had a working function for that before (for testing). Now that the device settings is in my full control, yes we can do this very nicely šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Caseda](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/caseda/32/138695_2.png) [@Caseda](https://community.homey.app/u/Caseda)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 10:10pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/493 "2022-09-08T22:10:46Z")
Playing with it more and more, liking it more and more too, and notice that Iā€™ve got 2 (more) feature requests šŸ˜‡ 1, Donā€™t necessarily need it myself (yet?), but I can imagine that someone wants it: `step` (size) for number capabilities, things like thermostats often have a step size of 0,5Ā°C, I can imagine more devices have this behaviour. 2. Contact/Motion alarm beside the regular ā€œalarmā€ for the yes/no capabilities, with that you can active a zone, just a regular ā€œalarmā€ wonā€™t do this. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 10:11pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/494 "2022-09-08T22:11:08Z")
Absolutely stunning! _In reality Iā€™ve only 3 ā€˜smartā€™ blinds šŸ˜‰_ ---
**Author:** ![Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/arie_j_godschalk/32/63027_2.png) [@Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://community.homey.app/u/Arie_J_Godschalk)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 10:12pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/495 "2022-09-08T22:12:00Z")
> [@Caseda](#): > > 1, Donā€™t necessarily need it myself (yet?), but I can imagen that someone wants it: > `step` (size) for number capabilities, things like thermostats often have a step size of 0,5Ā°C, I can imagen more devices have this behaviour. > 2. Contact/Motion alarm beside the regular ā€œalarmā€ for the yes/no capabilities, with that you can active a zone, just a regular ā€œalarmā€ wonā€™t do this. Indeed, both will get on the list šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/arie_j_godschalk/32/63027_2.png) [@Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://community.homey.app/u/Arie_J_Godschalk)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 10:14pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/496 "2022-09-08T22:14:37Z")
2.2.2 In test now: Okay, in Test comes the new version right now: It will fix some old settings, but devices should not be recreated. The normal settings are still there, but you cannot save from it anymore. **You can have as many fields as you would like !** ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/5/1/515bf7febd1244ad2e611d2c32c9b12120c191fe.png) ---
**Author:** ![Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/arie_j_godschalk/32/63027_2.png) [@Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://community.homey.app/u/Arie_J_Godschalk)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 10:14pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/497 "2022-09-08T22:14:46Z")
Night Night! ---
**Author:** ![Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/arie_j_godschalk/32/63027_2.png) [@Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://community.homey.app/u/Arie_J_Godschalk)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 5:17am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/498 "2022-09-09T05:17:54Z")
I just removed the Settings from the app.json (in develop). It went fron 500k lines to 142k lines(!). Saves about 1.1Mb. And the installation goes much faster again. ---
**Author:** ![Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/arie_j_godschalk/32/63027_2.png) [@Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://community.homey.app/u/Arie_J_Godschalk)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 5:53am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/499 "2022-09-09T05:53:29Z")
This also means that the overhead of icons is greatly reduced. Thuse, at a later point, we can at more customisable capabilitiy/field icons. ---
**Author:** ![Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/arie_j_godschalk/32/63027_2.png) [@Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://community.homey.app/u/Arie_J_Godschalk)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 8:10am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/500 "2022-09-09T08:10:21Z")
New version in Test: Saving device settings goes much faster now. ---
**Author:** ![Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/arie_j_godschalk/32/63027_2.png) [@Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://community.homey.app/u/Arie_J_Godschalk)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 9:43am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/501 "2022-09-09T09:43:29Z")
New version in Test: the New Device Settings are almost done. Fields and there properties are only shown when applicable. Please let me know if you find a bug or mistranslation. Also worked on better explanations in settings. Tooltips have been reviced. ---
**Author:** ![Undertaker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/undertaker/32/53278_2.png) [@Undertaker](https://community.homey.app/u/Undertaker)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 11:21am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/502 "2022-09-09T11:21:38Z")
All status displays are gone and can no longer be activated. The field is greyed out. The advanced settings can also no longer be accessed. ![Screenshot_20220909-132125_Homey](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/7/c/7c71b79077b8279219f0457e786f0998fca9820e.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/arie_j_godschalk/32/63027_2.png) [@Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://community.homey.app/u/Arie_J_Godschalk)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 11:27am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/503 "2022-09-09T11:27:35Z")
> [@Undertaker](#): > > All status displays are gone and can no longer be activated. The field is greyed out. > The advanced settings can also no longer be accessed. Click on Wartung (and again click) and press Save. ---
**Author:** ![Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/arie_j_godschalk/32/63027_2.png) [@Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://community.homey.app/u/Arie_J_Godschalk)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 11:58am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/504 "2022-09-09T11:58:44Z")
Sorry about that m8, that should not have happend. The newest Testversion has pretty wel Device Settings, just go there (through Repair/maintenance) and press save. ---
**Author:** ![Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/arie_j_godschalk/32/63027_2.png) [@Arie\_J\_Godschalk](https://community.homey.app/u/Arie_J_Godschalk)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 12:16pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/505 "2022-09-09T12:16:55Z")
I just updated Test so tooltips also work on Mobiles (click on tooltips). Also changed the texts about hidden capabilities, i hope the text makes it clear now whay the option is there. Each checkbox for Create Hidden Fields (old create Separate Capabilities) has its own tooltip(!). @DirkG ---
**Author:** ![Undertaker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/undertaker/32/53278_2.png) [@Undertaker](https://community.homey.app/u/Undertaker)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 12:43pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/506 "2022-09-09T12:43:29Z")
> [@Arie\_J\_Godschalk](#): > > Click on Wartung (and again click) and press Save. Does not work for me. The fields remain greyed out. [Previous page](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287.md?page=24) [Next page](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287.md?page=26)