Capabilities: Existing and Process to Add New. Note: Capabilities ~= Interfaces?: Capabilities MUST be very strictly defined and enforced (attributes / commands / events)?

[copyninja (Jason Mok)]

@matthewnohr

After that, what do you all feel would be the best way to add new capabilities? Perhaps a tool to suggest/vote on them? Or maybe being able to create your private capabilities that you could publish like device types and SmartApps? I’m not actually sure how we’d do either of those, but we could certainly look into it.

To be blunt, right now this is what we want from you guys; a process to add new capabilities suggested by community. This forum can be a good enough the tool, but needs to be moderated. Just create a topic and make sure you start monitoring on it.

The problem is ST staff isn’t always going through all of the topics. Historically, there has been suggestions for new capabilities in the community but it gets completely ignored by ST staffs. e.g [API Request] Alarm Panel device capability.

If this topic on capabilities wasn’t mentioned in the recent developer meeting(thank God for that), none of the ST staff would have noticed that developers in the community are struggling to understand not only the documentation, but the overall purpose of it.