The removal of adding modes now seems to mean that you cant make sonos play certain music. i.e. i want to create a party mode and then on triggering party mode through alexa, it starts playing my party soundtrack and changes the lights etc. but the triggers on the setup of the speaker mood music smartthings app dont seem to have any relevant triggers without the modes being variable.
tgauchat
December 29, 2016, 7:41pm
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You can still create Modes using the web IDE/API page.
First be sure to login to the correct IDE web page for your Shard:
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…
alexsimpson:
The removal of adding modes now seems to mean that you cant make sonos play certain music. i.e. i want to create a party mode and then on triggering party mode through alexa, it starts playing my party soundtrack and changes the lights etc. but the triggers on the setup of the speaker mood music smartthings app dont seem to have any relevant triggers without the modes being variable.
As @tgauchat mentioned, It moved to the IDE, but it wasn’t removed altogether.
on September 15, 2016, an update was released to the android and iOS smartthings mobile apps which removed the ability to add a new mode through the app. Hopefully this was just a glitch and it will be re-added soon. Meanwhile, you can still add a new mode through the IDE. Instructions in the following thread.
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Many people use modes to manage which actions are automatically triggered. To begin with, Smartthings starts you out with a few basic modes, like Home and Away.
However, many people like to add additional modes. For example, I distinguish between Night, which is when we have a lot of lights turn on when there is motion, and Asleep, when the same movement will not turn on the ceiling lights, but will turn on a soft night li…