I am having trouble getting two CCTV cams to stream to a tile. It works some the time then it dies for a day or so. I believe this is a camera issue as it occurs in a regular browser as well as in Hubitat dashboard. Anyway thats one story but It got me thinking that maybe another way is to use a tile button to pull open the CCTV app. However I cannot see any way to open externals software apps from the Habitat dashboard.
Does anyone know how to do this? or does this feature not exist. I using mac OS most of the time but would also like to be able to do it on Windows and IOS.
I see no one has responded yet, so I'll make a try. On iOS, I believe this should be possible if the app registered a custom "URL scheme" as described here: Apple Developer Documentation (that's really for developers and won't help you much as an end user of an app). If you can find a link somewhere that you knows opens the app, which some websites may provide as a (sometimes annoying, IMHO) feature, copying and pasting that may work. Theoretically, I think macOS supports something similar, but the exact same URL is unlikely to work for both. There are likely also other ways, though I don't know any off hand. You'll likely have to create different dashboards or at least use different tiles for different OSes, and the key here will really have more to do with your OS and browser than Hubitat itself--you'll just be using a regular "link" tile on the Dashboard, with the trick being to find or create a link that works.
