With hundreds of devices, I must label things like “Lamp, Bedroom” which often too many letters to fit cleanly on a dashboard. Naming things like “Bedroom Lamp” solves nothing.
I like the HomeKit approach of removing the room name if it appears at the beginning of the name. Ie “Bedroom Lamp” appears in the room called Bedroom as simply “Lamp”, but anywhere else it’s listed by its full name.
In addition, I would love to know what features improvements are coming on the dashboard in general. Now that Patrick has moved on it seems to be dead from an externally facing feature improvement standpoint.
Then there's the case where a combination device such as a Qubino dual relay and temp probe module are used. I have one installed in my crawlspace to cut the power to my doorbell transformer to work around an intermittent lock up issue with my video doorbell. The module is named "Doorbell Power Relay Module". But I'm also using the temp probe capability to monitor crawlspace temps to automate turning water pipe heat tape on and off. Not surprisingly, my dashboard tile has a label that makes ZERO sense and conveys nothing about its purpose:
This has been asked for sooooo many times it's a bit frustrating that nothing's been done about it.
Oh I am disappointed we're not able to specify the text. I tried changing the template to Text after specifying the device, thinking it would operate anyway if I tapped it, but then it wouldn't operate as a switch any more.
That was helpful. Now may you please, please explain to me how to change the Tile "Date-Clock' to get the font size bigger. On a standard 10" wall tablet, its too small. In actionTiles it was pretty decent.
Another year passes, and seems we still don't have a ready (non-coding) approach to changing the label text on dashboard Tiles. Has someone introduced a n00b-friendly GUI method since we last visited this topic?
To amend my earlier statement, it appears that TEXT tiles only permit midline, centered placement of the label. So overlapping them with other active tiles in a vain attempt to introduce custom labels, results in ugliness (e.g. text placed directly over centered icon). Furthermore, to my astonishment, no matter which of two tiles (Device vs Text) you place first in a given grid position, the Text tile (perhaps because it was created later?) always seems to live in the foreground, rendering the underlying Device tile un-clickable.
This situation just begs for:
A non-CSS way to control text alignment within a Text tile;
And, a readily accessible means of setting z-depth for (overlapping) tiles;
I don't think things like that are "asking too much" although admittedly low-priority.