Alexa vs Google for SmartThings integration

[JDRoberts]

The method in that blog article is the same one linked to in the community FAQ In post 2 above, except that the blog article gives an old IDE URL which will only work for people on a particular shard. It doesn’t use the universal sign on URL (which works for anyone), so more and more people will find that the method given there does not work, unfortunately.

FAQ: How to find out what "shard" (cloud slice IDE URL) your Account / Location is on?

When SmartThings went for sale in the UK, they added the first of what will be many “shards” to split the SmartThings Cloud workload into multiple, somewhat independent, clusters of servers. SmartThings automatically replicates a lot of stuff between the shards when they deploy updates and so on, but if you are doing development and you Publish “For Me”, then you need to be sure to be logged into the correct shard, or your self-published SmartApp or custom Device Type Handler will not work. You won’t find it in the mobile App! Eventually you may not need to know your shard. Eventually, SmartThings may make this process automatic and when you self-publish, it will go to the “right” shard without intervention. Update: The URL: https://account.smartthings.com should take you to your correc…

But the community FAQ has been kept up-to-date.