Displaying real time information in tiles

Questions & Help
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Hi.

Is there a way to show real time information from certain deveices in a tile? Especially for temperature/light sensors this would be valuable.

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I haven’t done anything in the Nefit app to enable showing the temperature. I guess that Athom decides which info to show for each device class.

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Or maybe only thermostats show this kind of information
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Thanks! That kind of information would be useful in many cases. Dimming level, temperature, humidity, lux etc etc.

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Athom use some sort of Voodoo programming to determine what gets shown, based on both the devices class as well as its capabilities; for example a device which has a contact sensor when added to the ‘other’ device class will show nothing. But when added to a sensor device its shown in the tile.

Personally I think it would be great if the tiles defaulted to their current values, but a user could determine which (one) of the capabilities to show on the tile.

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Hi,

Yes this would be a great addition !

My multisensor 6 does not show anything in the tile also ( despite being classified as a sensor i suppose )

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Indeed , would be very nice if that would be made possible by athom, and also which capability should be shown in the timeline

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Has been requested before, but taken of the radar https://github.com/athombv/homey-apps-sdk-issues/issues/17

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This probably wouldn’t be too hard to implement. Make 6 different tiles with the capability to show 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 different values. In the config, select which value (which is available for flows already) to display. Wouldn’t even have to be for the device. It could be a special tile where you select a device (or maybe more) from the list of devices and then select one or more of the available values to display. Guess this might even be possible to make for a developer.

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Well, it’s possible in homeydash.com and I am not a developer, so… :wink:

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For now, if you want create a tile which shows the temperature - you can use the group app to add a device which is made up of a single device with only the temperature.

Otherwise Athom have stated that they will keep an eye upon the ideas and suggestions forum, so perhaps a thread could be created?

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Have you looked at Homeydash.com ?
Homeydash.com, a Homey dashboard

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How can I do this in homeydash?

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How do you set this up? My homeydash only displays what’s on my home page in homey.

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Nevermind - long press changes what’s displayed :slight_smile:

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When I try to add the HomeyDash app (both the stable and beta) it says it’s incompatible with my homey version (early 2019 edition, software version 2.1.2).

So that’s a dead end for me unfortunately?

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I think you’re trying to install the old HomeyDash app from the app store, am I correct?

That’s not what we’re talking about here, we’re talking about homeydash.com.
See this topic: Homeydash.com, a Homey dashboard

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Yes indeed, thanks for the links, I’ll check them out :slight_smile:

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Yes, it’s a great idea !
I can’t understand why it’s not the case from the beginning : no widget or a tile without info isn’t useful.
The tile is empty, what a loss of space.

It would be great if developers could answer to this query.

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Athom have told us that ideas which are popular are more likely to be read by them, soooo I’ve created a thread in the ideas and suggestions forum.

If you like this idea, make sure you comment in the new thread and we will see if Athom reply.

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