Collecting data from devices via web API

[tgauchat (ActionTiles.com co-founder Terry @ActionTiles; GitHub: @cosmicpuppy)]

Yes… Those are both good examples of logging to an external web service and the code of those SmartApps would be educational.

Makes me think, though, that external logging would be a useful overall service to abstract and encapsulate some day, probably as “service” Device instances of various types.

Capability externalLogging

Just thinking it would be nice to abstract and encapsulate services (outside of SmartThings own event logs) which are meant to log events and/or data series. More details later… But there are already some good examples in SmartApp form (or are they also Devices?). Various examples… GroveStreams Xively Slack http://community.smartthings.com/t/slack-integration-with-smartthings/6337 . .