Clicking actually DOES in fact cause the displayed order of devices to change. What it does not do is anything that could be called "sort".
At first, I thought it might be a case of there being an underlying device state and then possibly different UI representations of that state for different types of devices. For example, the state of a dimmer device might be 0. The displayed state of an on-off device might be "Off". The displayed state of a door sensor might be "Closed" or whatever. So perhaps sorting by State might cause multiple such different UI representations to be jumbled together when Indigo sorts/groups by their underlying state value.
However, when sorting by state, even if I look only at dimmer devices, for example, I see a group with dim level 0, then one with level 30, then a bunch more with level 0, So there is nothing like sorting happening here with the exception that I observe that devices without any state (state field is blank in the UI), do group together and toggling the sort direction causes the group to move to the top or bottom of the list.
What are some things that could be done if sort by State somewhat worked:
- quickly view the set of lights or appliances that are on
- group together a group of devices that are having problem communicating (e.g. displayed state is "no ack" or "device not found")
- scan a list of sensors such as temperature sensors in order by their values.