Controlling LED Strips

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And is the viceversa possible

Controlling Home Assistant devices through Smartthings was not as easy as the other way around with that integration. It is possible though using virtual switches. If you create virtual switches in Smartthings, those will show up in Home Assistant, and then you can write automations on either side that trigger different devices off of those. Keeping their status (ie on vs off) in sync was a bit of a problem though.

I also had used Node Red and webcore together, but not sure if webcore is worth investing too much time in since it is Groovy based and likely will not last much longer

Node-Red and Smartthings

With it looking less likely Voicemonkey is coming back, I found a nice workaround to actually trigger node red flows easily from Webcore, and actually pass a string to the msg.payload from Webcore to Node red. This can be nice to take advantage of using both Webcore and Node red, or gradually switch to Nodered without doing everything at once. First step is to setup Node red of course, then use the Http in node. Create any random URL endpoint you want with method POST. Then use Webcore to make a web request using your internal node red IP address adding on the URL endpoint you put in the HTTP node. The expression you put in the plain text of the POST request in Webcore will be in the message.payload in Node Red. You can then use this to make announcements to Alexa of whatever the exp…