Capability externalLogging

[tgauchat (ActionTiles.com co-founder Terry @ActionTiles; GitHub: @cosmicpuppy)]

Just thinking it would be nice to abstract and encapsulate services (outside of SmartThings own event logs) which are meant to log events and/or data series.

More details later… But there are already some good examples in SmartApp form (or are they also Devices?).

Various examples…

GroveStreams

Xively

Slack

Slack Integration with SmartThings

Hi All, I use Slack as a communication and collaboration tool for my business and I am interested in setting up a ‘Channel’ to post all my ST activity into it so I can keep an eye on things…anyone done something similar or have a smart app that may do this? Its the general feed I would want the stream from so when people come and go or Mode Changes etc. The method used to get data into Slack is as follows Sending Messages You have two options for sending data to the Webhook URL above: Send a JSON string as the payload parameter in a POST request Send a JSON string as the body of a POST request For a simple message, your JSON payload must contain a text property. This is the text that will be posted to the channel. A simple example: payload={“text”: “This is a line of text in a chan…

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