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We have no spam on our forum -- don't bother registering if you aren't interested in Indigo. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. Answer by entering in order the first letter of the 4th, 3rd, 2nd, and 6th words in the sentence about the dog. This question is a means of identifying and preventing automated submissions.

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Quote Different Computers

Re: Using emojis

by Different Computers » Fri Feb 03, 2023 9:40 am

heck, the forum breaks if you try to put in a unicode emoji! :shock:

Quote mundmc

Re: Using emojis

by mundmc » Thu Feb 02, 2023 11:04 pm

When do we get a thumbs up button on the forum?

Quote Different Computers

Re: Using emojis

by Different Computers » Thu Feb 02, 2023 10:39 am

I use emojis for house status and they work great.

House emoji for "home", Bed emoji for "Sleep", Arrow emoji for "Away." That way control pages can just show the emoji.

Quote DaveL17

Re: Using emojis

by DaveL17 » Wed Feb 01, 2023 7:58 am

Initially, I didn't think this would be something that I would use since I don't typically use the Indigo UI for control, but I think it does have some good applications for me. For example...

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Quote FlyingDiver

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by FlyingDiver » Wed Feb 01, 2023 6:21 am

They're just unicode characters, so they should show up anywhere that supports unicode.

Quote boisy

Re: Using emojis

by boisy » Tue Jan 31, 2023 10:11 pm

I'm not an Alexa user, so I can't comment on that, but emojis show up great in Indigo Touch and in control pages!

Quote jay (support)

Re: Using emojis

by jay (support) » Tue Jan 31, 2023 7:46 pm

Cool. I'm a little surprised it works. Do those show correctly in Indigo Touch? How about in Control Pages?

Note that they will likely play hell with Alexa (and anything else that tries to interpret the name), so for Alexa you'd want to add a custom name to any devices with emojis in the name in order to get voice recognition working correctly/reliably.

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Using emojis

by boisy » Tue Jan 31, 2023 6:32 pm

Hey all,

I had a bright idea... using emojis as part of the name of the device. This gives me an instant visual cue as to what this device is. I put the emoji as the first character in the device name. I have an emoji for light switches, glass break sensors, gas and water valves, etc.

Hope this is helpful!

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