There are two names displayed on a tile - a title header and a tile name. The modern skin uses the “tile name” field which always mirrors the native name of the tile. The custom name replaces only the title header which is hidden in the modern skin. To fix this you need to hide the tile name field for all tiles and unhide the title header field for all tiles. This can be done in the editor or by editing the skin file directly. You then need to style the title header to look the way you want it to. Again, that can be done in the editor or via CSS editing. I don’t know why I did it this way - just seemed to offer maximum flexibility to have both names around. I probably should update the modern skin to do this by default.
I'll play around with it... On another note, the hub does not always seem to be in sync with the HP. I'm using a Raspberry Pi to run my page... I have the IP of my Pi in the settings and using the port 19234 as recommended... I read a post from someone else about the ports and saw your responses... I'm assuming I have that setup correctly... I am interested in the pistons part, but from the reading I've done so far, WebCore is not recommended for Hubitat?
I'm an IRIS user and just getting up to speed on this platform. Sorry for all the questions. I really do appreciate all that you and others have done here...
Yes, I would avoid WebCore on the Hubitat platform.
Do you have the Node.js program set up and running? You will need that for the instant updater to work. It is a bit finicky to set up but once set up it works great.
the node app is running but it isn't capturing any events - hence the journal is empty. Not sure why this would happen unless perhaps you have a firewall blocking your hub from sending packets to Node. This is done in the groovy file with the HubAction call. It could also happen if you have the wrong IP address for Host IP. Make sure that is set to the IP of your rPI - not your Hubitat Hub.
I'm finally home so I can do some troubleshooting on my end tonight to confirm I didn't break anything in the Hubitat version while I was updating HP on the road. When I'm on the road I can only test the ST side.
Yup, all of that matches... There should not be a firewall unless there is something native to the RPi OS I don't know...
On the subject of the tile header, I played around with the built in editor but can't figure it out. I've looked at the css files and not sure what to do there either... Is it in the customtiles.css file? Within the Modern skin folder?
As for the editor, it is point and click. Edit using the green dot, then click on a header element then click unhide. Then change the background and font alignment then hide the name field. The CSS dire file edit is far easier for changes like this.
I might change the code to use the edited name. Stay tuned. Then you won’t have to do anything.
I posted a minor update that fixes this issue in code so you can just update your housepanel.php file and reload your browser and all the custom names should now show up.
If anyone was counting on having the original names intact in the name field this update will break that. With this update all original names are lost when any user custom name is given.
Okay - I did some troubleshooting on my Hubitat server tonight and found out a few things. First, I found that the Node server can get confused if it connects multiple times to the same server, and that sometimes happens. I don't have a clean fix for this but you can just restart your service and you should be fine. Second, I found a straggling old housepanel-push.js file in the main folder that needed to be removed. This could have been run by mistake. In the latest push I removed this file. On your server log into your main housepanel folder and enter:
sudo rm housepanel-push.js
Then navigate down to the housepanel-push subfolder and make sure everything is there. It should look like this:
Ok, just noticed a glitch with the new php file...
At first launch it does bring in the custom names... however, a few seconds later, it switches back to the real names on its own... a simple reload of the page brings custom names back but a few seconds later it does it again.
I tried restarting the RPi and clearing out the browser cache but it still happens... Any idea? I'm including a sample to show how they switch between the easier common name and the more complex naming convention I use to better manage devices from the hub...
I was able to see the clients connected on the push page after removing the extra file and completing the commands you gave... tried to run the sudo journalctl -n 30 | grep node command after but it still returns nothing...
Thank you. I'm gonna wait until you make the other change... I started to go into each tile and individually show/hide but I don't want to mess it up if your change occurs somewhere else...
I’m working on it now. It turns out that doing it right is harder than I thought it was going to be because I store custom names in the room list and I should store them in the index list. Fixing this is an architecture change that I can’t take on now, but I can change the update query to remove the native name so things don’t get overwritten. That is a quick fix until I do the architecture change later.
Also, what you are doing will still work and will always work. This is basically how I use custom names. Another thing that will work is to use the tile customizer to replace the name field with your custom name. Custom fields apply after tile updates so you could do that now and it will fix your problem; however, tile by tile customization can be tedious.
