I was trying to think through various ways to get the tiles to 'fit' on a screen as best as possible.
Currently:
tiles must fill the screen width evenly
no horizontal scrolling - only vertical
tiles are also square (height=width); there's exceptions to this one
The best example I could come up with is the Path Finder app (mac).. they show images as thumbnails and have a slider to make the tiles larger/smaller. Notice how the padding changes until some point where another column is added.
Ultimately, I want to use 1 slider like Path Finder does.. but, behind the scenes I think the logic will be somewhat similar to what's there today. Right now the tile size slider just adds/removes columns.
I'm not using a specific number (like 2, 3, etc) because I wanted to handle screen rotations better.. meaning, 2 columns in portrait mode might look OK but would be WAY too large in landscape. So, instead I'm using terms like S/M/L/XL.. So, "S" might be 2 columns in portrait but 3 or 4 in landscape..
anyway, long-story short - there's nothing else between these values.. it's just the next number of columns
The app should send the /on or /off command based on that toggle switch. Maybe that's not the right command to send to turn the light on/off? If you try that command and then send me a log I should at least be able to tell:
This one will take some time.. it's nothing I'm doing in the app - just one of the libraries I'm using doesn't support that version of Android.. 4.3 I believe (API 18 - ~2012)
I know debugging it can be a pain.. but, there should be a way to connect to it wirelessly (adb connect IP:5555); if you can connect that way, you can see the device log "adb logcat"; you might have to try to re-install and then get the logs.. that should contain what library isn't compatible
EDIT: went to the spam folder.. darn google.. there were a few logs in there! I have that email address fwd messages to my primary gmail account so I don't normally login
I am using the -Xiaomi light sensor with this community app from markus. To make sure the device is available to the hub, markus uses a presence check for the device. Some of the reported states are these:
Current States
battery : 100
illuminance : 7.0
presence : present
The Android app is seeing these as a presence sensor. How do I tell the app that they are illuminance sensors and report that to the dashboard? Maybe my question is, how do I tell the app that the sensor is another type of device? BTW, I love the new fan icon!
Fire 10 tabs came in today? If I'm only running the dashboard, do I need to install lineage or will leaving as is and install play store do? I haven't finished the setup on them yet. Not sure it's wise to use my actual amazon account on it.
I received my 2017 10" Fire tablet earlier in the week. I was going to post here what I did to install Lineage but it's complicated enough that I wasn't sure if I'd recommend it to others or not.. Basically, this app should work fine using the stock Fire OS with only 1 exception that I know of (turning screen on and back on automatically).
That said - this is the post I followed to root the device and replace the OS.. it goes along with the first post in this thread but because my tablet came with a newer version of the Fire OS I had to do a few different steps. The other part that isn't discussed in this thread at all is how to create a Linux 'live' USB drive.. that took me longer than it should. Ultimately, I'm not an expert of any of this so the XDA thread is the best place to reference if you do want to take the plunge here
side-note - I'm getting a wall mount from here - they look great and hide the cables too
I was wondering how to use the illuminance attribute a while back.. I have a motion sensor with this attribute but wasn't really show how to display the value.. text only I guess would work but is that value helpful? I was hoping there'd be some set of icons or colors that I could use on the tile (like: full sun, partial sun, shade, etc).. anyway, if this device type is of interest to you can you give me a little details of how it should be displayed?
Is the presence attribute something separate? I can see having a presence device type which would show an icon based on that attribute. Do the 2 attributes go together somehow?
I also created animated gifs of the fans too.. I'll make that an option at some point but the crappy thing is the gif format can't have a transparent background.. so, that background color would have to match the tile background color.. and that wouldn't look great with all of the themes
I left it stock -- installed the play store for the app.
I went in to developers options and flipped the don't sleep when charging switch and it stayed on all night. It does dim, but didn't not have the ad based wake screen.
