I see the confusion. I am using "Phone Link", which is a built-in windows app that lets you connect to your android phone and see messages, run apps, etc. The app is running on your phone, but you see the app's output on your windows machine.
Basically, it gives you almost full access to your android phone from your windows machine.
Marc
Ah yes. I'm already using Phone Link. I like it a lot. Just not for Hubitat.
Thanks.
I also want that update, but Google play still says that I have the latest version (1.0.2231) - and I'm a beta tester. Grrrr.
Could you post a couple screenshots? You can resize the window to allow for more tiles/buttons? Or does it just make the current buttons bigger? Thanks for the help! Trying to figure out if it's worth getting a separate device just for this.
Resizing the window increases the size of the tiles on the virtual screen. It does not give you any more screen space to add more tiles. My experience is that it always provides a "Portrait" view of the dashboard; I was unable to get the virtual screen to have a landscape orientation.
Marc
version 1.0.2239 (beta)
Yep, I noticed that one too. The old BlinkChild driver has a different command than the new one. Also, I noticed only the new driver updates an attribute called "Updated" which I use to know when to refresh the image (vs cache it).
Long story short.. if you're a Blink user and want to view images you might want to go into your cameras page on the Hubitat and change the driver type from BlinkChild to BlinkChild-Camera.
This latest version will open a full screen view when you click on the camera tile. It will also fetch the latest image too automatically. You can zoom/pan the full screen image like you would be able to with any full screen image.
If you long-press the tile you'll get the details page which has more options like arm/disarm, motion, fetch image and open Blink app (if installed)
I'll continue to update if anything else changes or if there's some additional options I can add that make sense. I haven't tried live video in a while as I don't think it ever worked for my Blink XT2 cameras.. but, if that ever does work I'll try to add that in too
Thanks, that is helpful.
Love this dashboard. Wish I had found it a while ago. Props to the author.
Anyway to change all the tile settings at once? Looking to have them 2 x 1 instead of the default of 1 x 1.
Thanks!
Not easily, no. You can edit the backup file (ie: backup to Hub's filemanager, edit it and then re-import). But, looking closer that would be a pretty manual process too. FWIW here's what to change: the column size is tileWidth and row size is tileHeight.
But, I'll just add some UI to do this.. there's already a way to select multiple tiles. I'll add tile size as an option there
@jpage4500 have you backup to the hub and restored on a different "new" device before? Noticed that sometimes things don't come over. Like the hub IP i just seen had it down as remote, not sure why.
Yes, sorry been traveling. Crazy work schedule.
Seeing the notification text instead of presence just seemed to be recent (perhaps it wasn't). I wasn't sure if it's by design or a bug. It does keep the stale notification shown. It's only when I change the device to presence does it show present/away.
You could always use Bluestacks on the desktop.
I see.. I did make a change to show the notificationText attribute on the dashboard for a couple of device types -- mobile, HD+ Device -- instead of just the presence icon. I figured that would be more useful to view than just the icon. But, yes the presence device type still just shows the icon.
Continue to be impressed with this app. Did have an issue where when I enabled cloud support, it removed all my folders including all the devices in them. Had to do a complete reset and rebuild everything (restoring backup would not restore the folders).
Suggestion for a future version - when you go in to a folder, the folder label might be nice on the top of the screen.
Also, if you hide the back button in a folder, how do you get it back?
Thanks again. Donation sent. Keep up the good work,
that's not a bad idea.. i'm not sure i've ever loved the back button but I needed some way to go back without relying on the android back button or gesture. I also don't have a normal title bar like most Android apps either to display the folder title
Also, if you hide the back button in a folder, how do you get it back?
It looks like you can't.. at least I don't see an obvious way. I'll figure out a way to do it (unless I replace the back button in some other way)
Did have an issue where when I enabled cloud support, it removed all my folders including all the devices in them
I can't think of how that could mess anything up. Did you initially login and didn't enable cloud support -- and then added it after? I don't know if I've tested that scenario.. let me know if there's anything else I can try to help reproduce
I have two mini's (Owl's) that are not working quite right. They each have their own type. One being MiniCamera and the other WiredFloodlight.
The Mini Camera one will not display an image on the dashboard, even though I can see the thumbnail within my hub. I get "Image failed to load! null" instead.
The Floodlight one will display the image on the dashboard, but the details and controls are very limited. Both devices also do not show as a Blink Camera, but rather as an Image.
Left side of the above works great. Type = Camera. Right side is the Wired floodlight that will display the image, but I cannot change the type to a Camera. Button, Custom, Fan, HTTP, Image, Light, Motion, Outlet, Switch are the options.
thanks for reporting this - I don't have either device so I can't test but hopefully they should be easy to add support for.
Right now I'm guessing these devices are being detected as "Image" device type because they support the "ImageCapture" capability. But, that ImageCapture capability is supposed to have an attribute called image and that likely doesn't exist - which is why the image isn't loading
ImageCapture
Attributes
image - STRING
For the other Blink drivers I look at the driver type which for me has been BlinkChild or BlinkChild-Camera. I'll add -MiniCamera and -WiredFloodlight to that list.
Can you just check that these devices:
Thumbnail attribute where the image is setWired Floodlight
x_hubitat_extra_attributes.Thumbnail="<img height=\"25%\" width=\"25%\" src=\"http://x.x.x.x/local/WiredFloodlight-xxxxxx_Image.jpg\">"
x_hubitat_extra_attributes.Thumbnail_File="/api/[REDACTED]"
x_hubitat_extra_attributes.Thumbnail_Image=null
Mini Camera
x_hubitat_extra_attributes.Thumbnail=null
x_hubitat_extra_attributes.Thumbnail_File="/api/[REDACTED]"
x_hubitat_extra_attributes.Thumbnail_Image=null
Mini Camera
["GetCameraLiveView","GetNewThumbnail","SystemArm","SystemDisarm","off","off","on","on"]
Wired Floodlight
[`"FloodlightOff","FloodlightOn","GetCameraLiveView","GetNewThumbnail","SystemArm","SystemDisarm","off","off","on","on","take"]
I pulled the attributes from MSR, which should explain the x_hubitat_extra bits
version 1.0.2244 (beta)
I added a new tile size option to the multi-select screen:
I also added support for the other 2 Blink camera drivers - BlinkChild-MiniCamera and BlinkChild-WiredFloodlight. I can't test them so please let me know if that works!
Nice addition @jpage4500
I'm starting to consider my smart home as a HD+ system. How the hell do you keep improving so much and so fast.
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