Teki
August 9, 2022, 1:36am
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Controlling devices via a touch screen other than your phone has become increasingly popular, and we’re constantly thinking about how to provide a feature that allows you to control your smart devices more quickly, to utilize an idle tablet and even be able to choose which devices to display on the screen, so we launched CAST, hope you like it!
Learn more about Cast: eWeLink CAST - eWeLink
How to use the Cast:
eWeLink Cast allows you to create different cast dashboards of devices & scenes, you can control the devices right on the dashboard, and customize the dashboards by simply drag and drop the icons.
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Tips for Cast
How to display eWeLink Cast dashboard in full screen:
Problem you may encounter
When you’ve configured the Cast dashboards and want to use the tablet as a control panel for a long time, you may find that the tablet cannot hide its status/notification bar (as shown below), and even the address bar of some browsers can take up a little screen height, just a little bit away from perfection.
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Possible Solution
To solve this problem, you can use a specific browser which enables full-screen display of the Cast pages.
1.For Android tablets
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Drag & Drop to pin your favourite devices & scenes on top of the dashboard:
Do you know that you can customize your Cast dashboard?
When you need to place a few favorites from many devices on top, just drag & drop the icons (on settings page) to sort them, and the same for scenes.
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Please feel free to express your experience or suggestions!
How to prevent others from switching your Cast dashboards?
eWeLink Cast allows you to create up to 5 dashboards and to switch between them on a single tablet, when you display a dashboard on your tablet and don’t want others to switch to another, try setting PIN code, if the dashboard is PIN encrypted🔒, you will need to enter the correct PIN🔑when entering it.
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:raised_hands:This is helpful when you display a dashboard for everyone including guests and want to keep other dashboards private.
How to keep the tablet cycle charging automatically?
Intro
Since we launched the eWeLink CAST beta version on August 9th, we received lots of feedback and tiles or widgets support requests from our dear users, all requests will be evaluated fully, and sort out these FAQs into tips and keep posting them out, such as Dispaly in full screen or Drag and drop feature hoping to inspire more users and shape the CAST feature together.
One of the frequently asked questions is, is there any way to keep the tablet cycle charging automatically without ke…
Just set this up and found that my iFan03 isn’t supported.
yitie
August 9, 2022, 10:41am
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we are working on more device and widget integration, and collect more feedbacks as possible.
dgg006
August 9, 2022, 12:48pm
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I think it is a great idea!!!
It lacks a bit of customization. Different wallpapers, being able to separate device widgets from 2 or more channels.
Something that personally would be very useful, the integration of third-party widgets, “google calendar”, “keeps notes”, “a clock!!”
None of my scenes show
I can select device and they work but when I click select scene there are none?
I do have many scenes
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Teki
August 10, 2022, 1:33am
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Only manual scenes ( “tap to perform” ) are supported
yitie
August 10, 2022, 2:54am
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Yea, we are working on feature requirements collection and evaluate them fully,
for now, in next version, planned to bring the tiles of lights, sensors, and charts of TH and POW devices to the Cast, and yes, pre-set wallpapers and widget for calendar and weather are on the list too, stay tuned with us.
yitie
August 10, 2022, 2:55am
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Planned to bring the sensors to the CAST in next version
yitie
August 10, 2022, 3:02am
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working on the new tiles of sensors
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when will we get the ‘new version’?
yitie
August 10, 2022, 8:58pm
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Planned in the middle of September.
yitie
August 16, 2022, 7:35am
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New tips released, How to prevent others from switching your Cast dashboards?
check it here
eWeLink Cast allows you to create up to 5 dashboards and to switch between them on a single tablet, when you display a dashboard on your tablet and don’t want others to switch to another, try setting PIN code, if the dashboard is PIN encrypted🔒, you will need to enter the correct PIN🔑when entering it.
[Dingtalk_20220816150846]
[F_PIN-1290_1624]
:raised_hands:This is helpful when you display a dashboard for everyone including guests and want to keep other dashboards private.
yitie
August 16, 2022, 7:38am
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Another two tips posted earlier to leverage the CAST experience
Problem you may encounter
When you’ve configured the Cast dashboards and want to use the tablet as a control panel for a long time, you may find that the tablet cannot hide its status/notification bar (as shown below), and even the address bar of some browsers can take up a little screen height, just a little bit away from perfection.
[withBar]
Possible Solution
To solve this problem, you can use a specific browser which enables full-screen display of the Cast pages.
1.For Android tablets
…
Do you know that you can customize your Cast dashboard?
When you need to place a few favorites from many devices on top, just drag & drop the icons (on settings page) to sort them, and the same for scenes.
[F_Drag & Drop-1290_1624]
Please feel free to express your experience or suggestions!
hi, the project is very interesting especially if it manages to integrate many devices
There remains a problem when internet connections fail and this sometimes happens with us, can integrating a mini server locally be an idea?
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hope to support POWER Elite device soon
Great feature, thanks project
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yitie
August 19, 2022, 2:39am
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Great idea, maybe we should considering make a local bridge sth like a mini server and CAST feature build-in😎
yitie
August 19, 2022, 2:40am
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Working on POWER monitoring devices and charts👨💻
yitie
August 19, 2022, 6:53am
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Check our new tryout of making an automatic cycling charging and keep the health of the battery.
Intro
Since we launched the eWeLink CAST beta version on August 9th, we received lots of feedback and tiles or widgets support requests from our dear users, all requests will be evaluated fully, and sort out these FAQs into tips and keep posting them out, such as Dispaly in full screen or Drag and drop feature hoping to inspire more users and shape the CAST feature together.
One of the frequently asked questions is, is there any way to keep the tablet cycle charging automatically without ke…