SmartApp endpoints are a powerful way to securely control your SmartThings with familiar REST calls GET,POST,PUT or DELETE. You have the freedom to define your URL schema and can pass query values through the URL path or through JSON. This tutorial will guide you through the process of setting up …

Just started to look at this. The video is still marked as private. Can you share it to public?

Just wondering whether you can comment on the security of this solution? I installed it today and set up a few test devices, including my garage door. While I was away, I saw an alert that the garage door opened, and figured it was my wife coming home. When I came home an hour later, no one was here…

Is it necessary to set up the PHP site? What I want are some URLs to use to control lights or devices from Tasker. Isn’t the PHP code just doing that in this example? I have installed ActiON4 that even runs the web-pages in Groovy, and it seems to work pretty well. [image] 625alex/ActiO…

It’s not the most robust example, but this part of the docs covers everything you need to know to make an HTTP API access smart app. Definitely not intended for non-developers, but it covers exactly what you’re trying to do. To see a working HTTP API smart app example, look at this Groovy code for…

@noisygecko I’m pretty sure one of my friends mentioned the app SharpTools which provides Tasker plugins (as well as Android widgets) for SmartThings in another thread of yours. In that thread, you mentioned the following: I want Tasker to be able to trigger the SmartThings app to do things that I…

Is there a way to implement an endpoint that can control devices at different locations owned by different accounts without the need for each location/user to publish the endpoint?

Did anyone every get a similar setup working ? I have an endpoint and a Spring Boot app which is trying to implemented this example. Steps 1 and 2 work just fine. But step three which is supposed to return a list of endpoints and a list of switches granted permission does not work. The http g…

[image] Ron: Does anyone else have a working example ? There are tons of real-Apps in the wild, so finding “examples” in some language should be “easy”… I’m not speaking from much personal experience, though, but from a position of wanting to grasp this quickly as well – perhaps to do some v…

[image] tgauchat: There are tons of real-Apps in the wild, so finding “examples” in some language should be “easy”… I’m not speaking from much personal experience, though, but from a position of wanting to grasp this quickly as well – perhaps to do some very basic Echo integration. Maybe we sh…

Tutorial: Creating a REST SmartApp Endpoint

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Ben (Ben Edwards) August 20, 2014, 3:56pm 3

Updated. And also here:

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