# \[APP\]\[Pro\] 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Le\_Cactus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/le_cactus/32/9727_2.png) [@Le\_Cactus](https://community.homey.app/u/Le_Cactus)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2022, 11:05pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/105 "2022-08-25T23:05:46Z")
> [@Peter\_Kawa](#): > > Works like a charm to refresh the status You do you use it? Do you have an example? TIA ---
**Author:** ![Joka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Joka](https://community.homey.app/u/Joka)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 6:19am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/106 "2022-08-26T06:19:31Z")
Hi Arie, little bug here: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/7/9/79e1d2fcce584850fcc7a5572e70157ff9775a00.png) If I use the number field and start the flow it works correctly. If I delete the number value after that the number stays visible in the tile and is not deleted in the tile after a refresh. ---
**Author:** ![Joka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Joka](https://community.homey.app/u/Joka)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 6:24am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/107 "2022-08-26T06:24:29Z")
The more we get the more we want 😉 @Arie_J_Godschalk is it possible to make the icon files selectable like in the VD app. Maybe in a future version, no hurry! ---
**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:** [August 26, 2022, 6:34am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/108 "2022-08-26T06:34:10Z")
Hey Joka, For the Device you can set custom icon’s through the Homey Mobile App, enough choise there. For capabilities (properties), i don’t believe you can pick them yourself in the VD app?! But i am allready working on including icons for capabilities, almost done with it. Just finishing the settings page. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2022, 6:36am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/109 "2022-08-26T06:36:45Z")
Sorry, i am not completly following you. Delete a number from a DC VD? How do you delete a number? You mean if you delete the whole capability? Perhaps wait a moment for version 1.9.4, i really did a lott of work and fixing last 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:** [August 26, 2022, 6:38am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/110 "2022-08-26T06:38:16Z")
Comming up: customisable icons: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/2/d/2d1e57702532ec16a7c0ae5a0d51f41d6e0781c7.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:** [August 26, 2022, 6:39am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/111 "2022-08-26T06:39:36Z")
In my develope version, right now, if i select a tag in a flow and delete the capability-name in settings, the tags get’s invalidated: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/d/6/d60927d738d8c3f45baf496aa4995142d59940fb.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:** [August 26, 2022, 6:40am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/112 "2022-08-26T06:40:31Z")
1.9.4 is in test now: > **[Device Capabilities](https://homey.app/en-us/app/nl.qluster-it.DeviceCapabilities/Device-Capabilities/test/)** > > Enhance the capabilities of devices ---
**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:** [August 26, 2022, 6:45am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/113 "2022-08-26T06:45:56Z")
Changing properties Icon, Show as Alarm and Show as On/Off will causes Flow-Tag IDs to be changed and thus may break flows. ---
**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:** [August 26, 2022, 6:54am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/114 "2022-08-26T06:54:22Z")
Just found a bug where it is not removed with a yes/no, fixing it 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:** [August 26, 2022, 7:02am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/115 "2022-08-26T07:02:22Z")
1.9.5. is in test now and fixes some small issues. ---
**Author:** ![Joka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Joka](https://community.homey.app/u/Joka)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 7:16am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/116 "2022-08-26T07:16:41Z")
Sorry, but my opinion is that the choice of DEVICE icons is really limited in the homey mobile app. In my use case no mower icon. Maybe it is an idea in future to make the DEVICE icon files selectable like in the VD app. But I understand not the highest prio. ---
**Author:** ![Joka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Joka](https://community.homey.app/u/Joka)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 7:18am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/117 "2022-08-26T07:18:54Z")
I mean this number field: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/d/8/d8eb15c329985d77e16b6aad0a7e8f5654f34b64.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:** [August 26, 2022, 7:33am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/118 "2022-08-26T07:33:26Z")
Ah, you mean you want to clear the number? I don’t know of a way to do that (numbers cannot be empty in Homey, only when creating a new capability), allthough i just thought of a possible way… I’ll try something… ---
**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:** [August 26, 2022, 7:46am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/119 "2022-08-26T07:46:06Z")
Great, found a way to reset them to empty values. All actioncards text, number or yes/no fields are now **optional** , giving the ability to clear capability values. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/e/0/e02ac36a449d43bdbc0ea4ed37ca179c389ddb09.png) But please note that Status should have the text “Clear”. But when the value is empty, it will not show there, only in the DeviceButton. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/c/4/c4a61c4fbf179cfdcb0ed44b906779bbe2e7ab52.png) **In test now!** ---
**Author:** ![Joka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Joka](https://community.homey.app/u/Joka)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 8:06am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/120 "2022-08-26T08:06:22Z")
App reinstalled. Device readded but since v1.9.5 I don’t get any status shown in a tile: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/a/f/af09b4c365b78498fa30044ff90a06e8aa4345d0.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/6/4/6468937ec062b14d8d87e9bc15fd0ae1d659bbfe.png) In the iOS Homey mobile app no status is shown, too. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Cactus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/le_cactus/32/9727_2.png) [@Le\_Cactus](https://community.homey.app/u/Le_Cactus)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 8:07am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/121 "2022-08-26T08:07:03Z")
While your at it, another request; for my use case it would ne nice if the device could be turn on and off but without a button, just as an indicator. And, maybe unlimited text/number/yes-no/buttons. Like @Joka said, “The more we get the more we want” 😉 This app is what I missed for a long time, now with advanced flows and this app I was able to get rid of soooo many basic flows 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 ---
**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:** [August 26, 2022, 8:21am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/122 "2022-08-26T08:21:23Z")
> [@Joka](#): > > readded but since v1.9.5 I don’t get any status shown in a Did you reset the Status Indicator to the status? Can you share a printscreen of the device-tab-with-all-capability from my.homey.app? ---
**Author:** ![Joka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Joka](https://community.homey.app/u/Joka)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 9:00am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/123 "2022-08-26T09:00:47Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/e/d/ed5ae10fbedf80f830cdea5aef3821ca6c86a061.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/a/f/afacc991af3a24ed9079294cca63294693665a1e.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/4/7/478c67a3f8da94b44d6253a353e8e86c78a1171f.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:** [August 26, 2022, 9:03am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287/124 "2022-08-26T09:03:56Z")
And if you fill in a Number yourself, like 24? [Previous page](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287.md?page=5) [Next page](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-device-capabilities-enhance-the-capabilities-of-devices/43287.md?page=7)