403 Forbidden when installing Edge drivers

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Hi - I’m trying to install an edge driver via the CLI app but I’m getting a 403 error. I’m using a personal access token that has access to all of the permissions listed here. When I run smartthings devices I get a list of devices. I was able to upload the package using smartthings edge:drivers:package [path_to_dir] with no problem. But when I go to install a driver, I’m getting:

> smartthings edge:drivers:install aeotec/multisensor/7
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 #  Name                     Channel Id
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 1  Aeotec Group           [redacted]
 2  TAustin Shared Projects  [redacted]
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
? Select a channel to install the driver from. 2
    Error: Request failed with status code 403: {"requestId":"A34197F3-7C48-4777-B9E8-1C118AB03560","error":{"code":"ForbiddenError","message":"Forbidden","details":[]}}

Any ideas?

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Hi, @TinyDancer!

Where is this value coming from?
The parameter next to edge:drivers:install should be the driverID. You can also omit the parameter so you can choose the driver from the list.

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Hi @nayelyz - that may be my fault - I am not sure where to retrieve the driver ID. I’d like to install this set of edge drivers for use with an Aeotec water sensor. I just realized that I did not in fact upload the drivers correctly using smartthings edge:drivers:package [path_to_dir]. How would I go about uploading this package to my hub?

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Why do you think the upload was incorrect? Did you get an error or was the package not found?

There are two things:

  1. When you package a driver, you get its ID, but, you can also list those that you have packaged and get the ID with the command:
smartthings edge:drivers
  1. There’s a command where you can directly install, publish (assign to a channel) and install the device, but you need to know the Channel ID and Hub ID:
smartthings edge:drivers:package [path_to_dir] --channel=ChannelID --hub=HubID

//To get the channel ID:
smartthings edge:channels

//To get the Hub's ID:
smartthings devices --type=HUB
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I think it wasn’t uploaded because when I run smartthings edge:drivers:install, I only see channels that appear to be unrelated to the one I linked to.

I didn’t specify the --channel and --hub options when attempting the the upload, though, so that may be my problem.

However, I’ve run into another problem. When running smartthings edge:channels, I get:

no items found

Sorry, I’m just thoroughly confused - I’ve been trying to follow the commands listed here to build, upload and install a package to a hub, but maybe that’s the wrong approach.

The reason I’m doing this is because I bought an Aeotec Water Sensor 7 sensor, but Aeotec does not have an edge driver developed for it yet. It appears to pair with Smartthings using the “Z-Wave Water/Temp/Humidity Sensor” DTH, but it reports errors when polling for data. I know DTHs are going away soon so I thought I’d be proactive and see if the edge driver that’s available from Smartthings would work any better.

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aah ok, sorry about that.
The steps to upload your own driver are:

  1. Package it
  2. As you didn’t get any results in smartthings edge:channels, you need to create one using smartthings edge:channels:create
  3. Assign your driver to that channel using smartthings edge:channels:assign
  4. Install the driver.

If you create the channel, you can do steps 1, 3, and 4 with the command I shared above.

I’ll report the document you shared. Thank you for bringing this up!

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Thank you so much for your help! After creating a channel, I was able to follow the three commands you provided:

smartthings edge:drivers:package [path_to_dir] --channel=ChannelID --hub=HubID

//To get the channel ID:
smartthings edge:channels

//To get the Hub's ID:
smartthings devices --type=HUB

After running these commands, I deleted and re-added the device and it was recognized properly as a Water Sensor 7 using the edge driver. Thanks again!

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