Hi JD,
Thank you for responding and being so helpful. You have helped me in the past and I am very thankful each time.
So, I have Smartthings v2. And I’m not going to lie, I haven’t kept up with the hardware situation very closely, so I don’t know the capabilities of my hub fully with regards to edge.
I was wandering if you were going to speak of home assistant. Since it is the case, now for a little story time. haha, lets just say, I got a little aggressive and found out the water is deep with regards to Home Assistant. I moved everything from smartthings over to home assistant because I didn’t want to use multiple “systems” and wanted control of everything in one spot.
At that time (less than a month or so ago), I was under the understanding that there really wasn’t much of a path for me with regards to sending mqtt commands from the smartthings app/ environment to the falcon pi player. This very well could’ve been determined through poor/ incomplete research. I am writing as I am concurrently reading your reply, so I think I’m getting ready to learn a hard lesson. (hopefully not)
Also, what you said, is exactly what I was wandering with regards to groovy/ soon to be past architecture. I felt like anything I potentially setup that relied on pre-edge software components would crash and burn as soon as the switches began getting flipped at smartthings. So, I have been in the weird state of flux with regards to integrating, essentially what it amounts to is a addressable rgb sign into my smartthings environment.
Thank you for the link you posted with regards to the potentially historic method of integrating HA and ST. I will have a look as education. I agree, I feel like it is possibly futile for me to go down that path.
Also, thank you for providing me with the edge link, all I currently know is that it is causing a good deal of heartburn amongst the community. But I will read the link you provided and get up to speed.
Node Red, yes, good ole node red. I had a run in with her one day. She was also not very kind to me but made pretty pictures.
I appreciate your honesty/ directness on this one. I felt the same. I did a good amount of reading/ research before I posted (but I won’t lie, some of this stuff get’s deep fast for me) and I was kind of left in the state of “well, it’s looking like this is not going to happen in ST based on the state of architecture etc.”-- I def wouldn’t want to put in a bunch of effort on setup and it being for nothing in 2 months time.
Essentially at this point, I’m just trying to come up with a good reason to get my devices back into ST from HA. It is more technical in that world than I thought it would be and some things that you would think would be simple are a nightmare in that environment but I do see how powerful it would/ could be if you were a pro in/at it (HA that is ).
Thank you again @JDRoberts. Maybe we’ll see something developed when necessity strikes.