ActionTiles

Not using the Inject integration. There is no paw anylonger and the inject driver is broken (have to jump through hoops just to delete the driver and associated virtual device that allows the edge clickable resize)

Were you able to drag to resize? or did you use the 3 dots on the tiles?

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Sorry, my post wasn't clear. I did use the 3...

This is really nice

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It's been 24 hours now with no update from Alex, so one has to assume AT is gone. Which is a shame. We have (had) tablets running AT prominently displayed in two homes. The displays were both easy to read and tasteful, something I cannot say for the HE dashboards (sorry, HE devs, but it's true). Hopefully, the folks at Hubitat see the need to up the dashboard game. I would gladly pay for another HE subscription if they could emulate the look and feel of AT. And if AT is gone for good, I wish Alex the best. AT had a good run.

As a user of ActionTitles; SharpTools is a drop in replacement.

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I think I will give SharpTools a look. I have enjoyed and loved Actiontiles for at least 7 years.

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Thank you for pointing that out. Sharptools is an excellent replacement for AT, and includes additional extras. I’ll also add that @josh is an active member of this community.

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Another vote for sharptools.

@josh is very helpful / active.

The dashboards are amazing.

Shame this couldn't have been worked into hubitat as a native app. All personal preference of course, but I find all of the alternatives result in over-complicated, 80's-style, knightrider-esque creations.

The local dashboards are the snappiest, but i feel decent results require a working knowledge of css etc.

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This feels like another topic...

EOL is a pain but understandable, but EOL without any notice is very unprofessional and is causing many people a lot of stress and work rebuilding panels they thought were stable. A tiny bit of of forthought from the developers would have saved so much pain!

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Yes, but....

Ok, I'm torn in this case.... Ultimately I'm willing to lend other dev's some leverage... for, well... anything... But if they choose to discontinue support for their offering, I am willing to offer them more than 2-3 days grace to respond....

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Even beyond 2-3 days... I'll cut other some slack...

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At least we can rely on HE staff to respond in record time :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: Hmmm...

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The signs suggest something significant is happening — hopefully nothing serious — especially since we saw infrastructure activity as recently as last month. Knowing the team behind ActionTiles, it would be very unlike them to leave their users in the dark without any communication. Let’s stay hopeful that this is just temporary and not anything more concerning.

​Regardless of the outcome, this is a good wake-up call for all of us that we need to reflect on our critical dependencies and to ensure we have redundancy in place to avoid being left in the dark—literally and figuratively—if a cloud service goes offline.

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Remember that Actiontiles for Hubitat was supported only in beta. They never charged for beta access. They provided a free service for several years. Presumably, operating the service cost them money. Thus, they did now owe you anything.

If, however, they discontinued support to Smartthings paying customers with zero notice, then that is not professional, but there could have been circumstances that forced that change. Let's wait to see what happens in the coming days.

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Yes, best to give most people more than 24 hours to resolve an issue,,, Ideally more...

I was an early adopter of a platform about two years ago where the developer sorta fleeced people into paying to beta test (asked people to test the e-commerce platform, saying you wouldn't be charged, but you were and he wouldn't refund the charges). Then he flaked out and abruptly shut it all down on no notice. Since then I just use apple home. Keeps my wife happy, it's aesthetically pleasing. For the rare time it isn't working, or when I'm doing major work on the hubitat network, I have a set of native dashboards set up, but Apple home is the daily driver.

I will add I did use Sharptools for a while. It is a great , very flexible platform, but I just have a hard time paying an annual subscription for a dashboard, and the free tier it too heavily restricted. I would happily pay a one time license, but i'm just generally being subscribed to death. its as bad as the tipping thing.

Ah the elusive Grant and HubiVue. It's a shame as that app was kinda unique in that it was both local and worked across all platforms with the same look. It proved that it's possible so I'm not sure why no-one else has bothered to develop similar (local and cross platform). There must be a market there.

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If I recall, @thebearmay was about to do something to keep it going, but Grant pulled everything before he had a chance to look into it. I heard a rumor he did the same thing over on Homey too.

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If any of you have a Tile Builder key then you also have access to SmartGrid with which you can build grids of controls with collapsible groups, additional information, completely local solution that can be used with or without a Hubitat dashboard. An example.

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