Using emojis

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Tue Jan 31, 2023 6:32 pm
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Using emojis

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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Tue Jan 31, 2023 7:46 pm
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Re: Using emojis

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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Tue Jan 31, 2023 10:11 pm
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Re: Using emojis

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!

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Wed Feb 01, 2023 6:21 am
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Re: Using emojis

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

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Wed Feb 01, 2023 7:58 am
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Re: Using emojis

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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Thu Feb 02, 2023 10:39 am
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Re: Using emojis

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.

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Re: Using emojis

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

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Fri Feb 03, 2023 9:40 am
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Re: Using emojis

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

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