Choose a custom icon on a Quick App HC3

[anthonyc0603 1]

I have created a quick app that toggles my Kasa Smart Wi-Fi Plug and would like to add a custom icon.  However, in the general tab, there is no 'Add Icon' button.  I am logged in locally and the Add Icon button appears for regular devices (such as my motion sensor)  but not for Quick App devices.  Any thoughts?

 

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[SmartHomeEddy 1,005]

@anthonyc0603
It depends on the type of quickapp device you create whether you can add an icon

 

 

 

Edited July 12, 2020 by SmartHomeEddy

[anthonyc0603 1]

I created a generic device.  Do you know which ones allow the add icon feature?

[SmartHomeEddy 1,005]

I don’t have a complete list. I created temperature, humidity, multilevel, binary. All of them can change the icon. I think if you look at all your devices, if you can change the icon, you know the type. 

[RH_Dreambox 189]

@SmartHomeEddy

You are talking about devices like sensors, switches etc. There you can change the icons.

@anthonyc0603 wondering how to change the icon on a QuickApp which does not work, yet. In any case, I have not found any way to change it on a QA.

[SmartHomeEddy 1,005]

Here are Quickapp and child devices with a custom icon (except temperature, I can change it but is not necessary) 

 

 

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also for the Unify presence quickapp 

 

 

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Edited July 13, 2020 by SmartHomeEddy

[RH_Dreambox 189]

@SmartHomeEddy

You are partly right, but then you have to choose that your QA should be e.g. a sensor. But in my case, my QA is neither a sensor nor a switch, and if I then choose Generic or Device controller, it is not possible to change the icon

[SmartHomeEddy 1,005]

If you choose for eg a binary or multilevel sensor, doesn’t your quickapp work ?

[RH_Dreambox 189]

Well I suppose it works. But there should be a reason to choose a certain category.

Why else would you choose from several different categories?

And if you choose the wrong category, then it is not possible to change it to another.

[SmartHomeEddy 1,005]

For the Kasa Smart Wi-Fi Plug from @anthonyc0603 a binary switch would do ?

[anthonyc0603 1]

Yep @SmartHomeEddy and @RH_Dreambox that is exactly what I did and it works.  

 

Each category is, in fact, a LUA template and it expects certain methods (functions) to be implemented. The binary switch has  'turnOn' and 'turnOff' functions and the interface has an automatic on and off button. I implemented a 'toggle' function which I then use in a scene.  So it is kind of a kludge but works fine.  I have no idea why they do not allow an icon change for a generic device.  

[10der 832]

Find humidity sensor 

change / add icon (ok add a new one)

memory icon NO

back to your genetic device 

add code like self:setIcon(NO) 

ta dam you changed icon for generic device 

 

do not ask me why Fibaro prevents to change icon natively 

[Martin_N 154]

On 7/13/2020 at 8:57 PM, 10der said:

Find humidity sensor 

change / add icon (ok add a new one)

memory icon NO

back to your genetic device 

add code like self:setIcon(NO) 

ta dam you changed icon for generic device 

 

do not ask me why Fibaro prevents to change icon natively 

 

Oh great 10der, ..
Your contributions are invaluable.
Probably many of us are dealing with the same thing: changing icons in QA.

The problem is not if you want to do it in your own installation, but how to insert the appropriate icon to QA so that it is part of the package and there is an automatic import (probably also with the help of preparing the encoding in QA). After all, you can't expect all users to be able to edit it.
Fibaro has to work here ... Please!
eM.

 

 

 

Edited July 16, 2020 by Martin_N

[powerpower18 0]

Hi 

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can you sahre the Quick app? thanks

[Jay Ess 6]

would it be possible to elobrate on how i can set an icon in a qa

[SmartHomeEddy 1,005]

 

@Jay Ess to use a user defined icon in a QuiciApp: 

 

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Edited February 10, 2021 by SmartHomeEddy

[Jay Ess 6]

@SmartHomeEddy Thank you for the reply,

i have added your code to the qa and it now shows me a blank white box as the icon, i have a few icons which i have added how can i specify which icon to use?

thank you

[SmartHomeEddy 1,005]

You can add a icon with an other device. You don't have to change the icon of that other device, only add the icon. If you click on the added icon (right mouse) and try to save the icon and at that moment you can see the number of the icon, in the filename, for example 1020. 

 

That number you can fill in the quickapp variable. 

[Jay Ess 6]

when i right click on the image i get this

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[SmartHomeEddy 1,005]

You need to login locally, on the homecenter