Bloomsky Weather Station

[schapper05 (Jason)]

@Tomforti

Hope a device type can come out of this.

Yeah These two posts below give me hope for a device type. I would think that if enough of us ST users get these it should come along pretty quickly from the community
https://community.smartthings.com/t/current-device-deals-best-prices/34950/389
https://community.smartthings.com/t/current-device-deals-best-prices/34950/393

And as was mentioned earlier Bloomsky itself was looking into creating a device type for it =D

Web Service or Cloud Devices?

This is Yongfeng from BloomSky (http://www.bloomsky.com). Our company sells an out-door device that measures the temperature, UV index, luminance, raining and pressure. It uploads the data along with a picture of the surroundings taken by a mounted camera to our server every 5 minutes, through Wi-Fi. Our users use our smartphone app, which uses a bunch of APIs to poll the server to get those data. Our device doesn’t have any action or accept any commands, it just provides data. According to my understanding, I wonder whether it belongs to Cloud Devices or Web Service SmartApps? I don’t quite get the differences between them. If it should be Cloud Devices, I want to know where I should write my Service Manager and Device Handler in the developers console? Do they correspond to “My Devices”…