HD+ Tile

Create a variety of custom tiles on HD+ without typing on your phone/tablet

Background

There's a lot of device types that HD+ supports which aren't Hubitat apps/drivers. For example, you can create a Calendar tile on your dashboard or an animated radar image.

You can add these tiles directly in HD+ by going into Edit mode -> click on the "+" sign for Add Tile

HOWEVER, entering a URL on a phone or tablet isn't the easiest thing to do!

Solution

An easier way to create these custom device type tiles is to install the "HD+ Tile" device on your Hubitat and set it up on the Hubitat instead. This device supports most of the HD+ tiles that can be added directly on the device and includes Calendar, Image, Stock Tracker, Video, Radar and more

INSTALL HD+ TILE DRIVER

• The easiest way is to use Hubitat Package Manager -- select install -> keyword search -> "HD+ Tile"

• Next, for EACH device you want to create, create a new virtual device in Hubitat -> Devices page, give it any name and select "HD+ Tile" as the type:

• In the driver page pick a device type (ie: image/video/calendar/etc) and enter a URL for it. You can also enter a refresh rate (ie: 30 secs)

  • see Examples below

• Make sure to give the tile a name

Add Tile to MakerAPI

• Add the new tile to MakerAPI so HD+ will see it the next time is syncs

Examples

• Image URL

  • animated radar

  • this site has some good radar images

• Video URL

  • stream video from your local camera (ie: rtsp://user:pass@192.168.0.70:554/h264Preview_01_sub)

• Web URL

  • any website (ie: http://windy.com)

  • embedded HTML snippet

    <iframe width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https://embed.windy.com/embed2.html?lat=35.136&lon=-80.767&detailLat=35.136&detailLon=-80.767&width=600&height=600&zoom=5&level=surface&overlay=wind&product=ecmwf&menu=&message=true&marker=&calendar=now&pressure=&type=map&location=coordinates&detail=&metricWind=default&metricTemp=default&radarRange=-1\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe>

• Calendar

  • Enter 1 or more iCal URL's separated by a comma

  • You can find an iCal URL in Google Calendar
  • Most sports teams offer iCal URL's

• Pollen Count

  • Enter your zip code in the URL field

• Radar

  • Enter your zip code in the URL field

• Stock Symbol

  • Enter 1 or more stock symbols in the URL field

  • Example: AAPL,PZZA,RBLX

• Dad Jokes

  • The URL field is ignored so just enter anything here

The end result is every device running HD+ will now have a new image/video/etc tile