Different Computers wrote:why you would want a pic of a control page on a control page. Why not just put all the elements you want from the first on the second?
For something where real-estate is a premium... like iPads. I have a few around the house and I want the most important information to come to me... not for me to go find it. A map of the house is a great way to cover most devices. A couple of the icons will open up other menus (like temperature on the main screen..... clicking on the temp goes to a climate control screen).
An iPad is too small to have all that info plus have a picture from my door cam pop-up if there is motion at my front patio or if the doorbell rings. So, this way the iPad main screen is dedicated to information... not control.
That works alright because most everyday stuff I control via Alexia, not the iPad. I look at it to see if the kids lights are still on, if I left the garage door open, etc. That's why an image of that control page is sufficient.
With the dynamic feature.... front motion detected or door bell rings and the iPad screen goes to a full screen of that camera to show the image that caught the motion. When there is no motion, it goes back to a screen of the other control page. If I want to control stuff with that control page, clicking on the image loads the actual control page so I can interact. I may have to re-evaluate once my two year old learns how to pronounce "Alexia".
I could see this being useful if you wanted to have a display that rotated through control pages. Since you can't programmatically tell an iPad to keep changing pages or set up triggers to send a control page to a device.... this works.
I can also see a use for this for displaying web site data on an indigo page.... like a screen shot of a google calendar, or traffic information, etc... You could have an action button that would call up that image.