Always have to click Location first in IDE

[Jeff_H]

When I log into IDE I always have to click on a location first before I can look at hubs or devices. If you go right to hubs or devices, it says you don’t have any. It is rather annoying. If you are logged in properly why does it not remember all of these things.

[marktheknife (Mark)]

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…

[bobbles (Bob)]

Just make a note of the url when you get to your shard, save it and then use it in future.

[Jeff_H]

Thank you, I have changed my saved bookmark.