Creating a workflow and smart app

[unix4linux]

This will be my first attempt at developing with SmartThings so I have a few questions about which route I need to be exploring. IFTTT does what I am trying to do but IFTTT is very slow. With that said, I’d like to write my own directly talking to the API for the tool I’d like a return value from

I’d like to get some ESPN scores for certain games and teams. Based on the return value via the ESPN API, I’d like for my lights to change certain colors and/or flash. What I am not sure of is the following:

1. Do I need to create a SmartApp in SmartThings that’ll supply the GET request to ESPN’s API?
2. Will the SmartApp then allow the return value from the ESPN API to trigger a workflow to do something? For example, if the return is true, flash my living room lights blue
3. Or is the workflow separately done?

Where should I be getting started in terms of what I need to do? Is a SmartApp what I need to be working on or do I need to be doing something differently?

[ritchierich (Michael)]

Somewhat similar but maybe this thread will get you started:

[OBSOLETE] NHL Game Notifications

Update: Future development has been moved to a new SmartApp that will support multiple sports. See Sport Notifications SmartApp [BETA] I’ve created my first SmartApp to generate game and goal notifications for my wife’s hockey team. My goal is to allow me to duplicate what the Budweiser Goal Light does, but I’ve also added push/text notifications during game day for times we are not home or it is not on TV during the game. It’s working, but still in development … sharing it here for those interested in using it and helping me test features I’ve implemented but unable to test fully yet. You can get the app from here:

[unix4linux]

Thanks for sharing this

[ejluttmann (Eric Luttmann)]

You’ll want to probably look at the following code here, as it is more current and also written to allow future plugins for different sports. Not sure if you want to just write your own child sport service or not, but it would at least be a good starting point for your own app if that is what you plan on doing. I’ve just not had the time to investigate other APIs for other sports - we just use the NHL child service for now.

[OBSOLETE] Sport Notifications SmartApp

I originally created a NHL Game Notification app for my wife so I could send notifications for her favorite NHL team (go Pens!) as well as flashing lights and play the goal horn over a wireless speaker. Once I shared it, there was also interest for other sports as well - so I created a Sports Notification app to start to address these requests. Below is a link to the “Sports Notifications” app - this is a Parent/Child combination of applications. The Sport Notifications app is the Parent which will manage the installation, scheduling and execution of each sport child service app. The ‘NHL Notification Service’ is the first offering of child notification service apps (NHL only right now, there will be more to come). I’ve also created a simple “virtual switch” devicetype that allows the S…

[unix4linux]

This should be a good starting point. I don’t have to create it from scratch if most of the work is there. I’ll see where I get. Thank you for sharing!!!