Garage Door Controller - OPEN/CLOSED status on home page

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The only problem with the keyboard emoji is if you are using Alexa. It used to ignore it, but now it reads it, which is confusing. So in the example above it says “Car Garage” when you are just expecting “Garage”, lol.

Those emojis do wonders though if you are creating rules, and want to know what cameras are involved at a glance:

Creating More Descriptive Rule Names Using Emojis

Rule names are restrictive in that you can’t use a lot of characters in the title. This makes it very hard to manage them, as you often have to open each Rule to see what it does, especially if you manipulate a lot of devices in the rule. I’ve solved that to a degree by using emojis. I put one as the first character of each camera name. When you get used to your selections, you can tell what a multi-event rule does just by reading the emojis. Here are the camera names I commonly use: [Scr…