Are custom capabilities created via Capabilities REST API related to the custom capabilities declared in a driver (custom-capability driver sample for example) in any way? If they are related what is the recommended way of maintaining them in sync? How to properly create one or the other? Where can …

Apparently I’m missing something important here. We figured out direct-connected device in the Developer Workspace is not related to the edge drivers. That’s good to know. It is kind of strange though but one step at a time. Custom capabilities and their presentations. Where do they live? When I …

Nayely, I can now confirm that, as long the VID is the same, the mobile App isn’t updated (even if you wait more than 12 hours). Following (minimum) workflow works for me: Edit your local capability and presentation files. Apply the changes with: smarthings capabilities:update -i mycapabilty.json …

Hey, @alex.49.98 I’d like to clear up a few points there: [image] alex.49.98: In the custom-capability sample there is capabilities folder with 2 yaml files, one describing the custom capability and another describing its presentation. It looks like I don’t need that at all. They are not used …

[image] alex.49.98: Custom capabilities and their presentations. Where do they live? When I publish the capability and the presentation I guess they are stored somewhere in a database on samsung servers. Right? They become available in the SmartThings API, and you can interact with them throu…

Thank you for your help. Overall, it became much clear now and I was able to install my driver with custom capabilities after putting custom capabilities JSON into the driver source code file. One more things to clarify. Putting that JSON into lua source code is a temporary solution, right? Normally…

@nayelyz , The 3 custom capabilities that I have created work fine in automations in the Action Part (then), but in the Condition part (if), it doesn’t work. Once the condition is selected, it shows as unknown condition. With this error, it does not allow saving the automation. [Screenshot_20211…

[image] Mariano_Colmenarejo: The 3 custom capabilities that I have created work fine in automations in the Action Part (then), but in the Condition part (if), it doesn’t work. Once the condition is selected, it shows as unknown condition. Double check the capabilities presentations, in parti…

[image] orangebucket: Double check the capabilities presentations, in particular the ‘conditions’ sections. The ‘list’ object should include a line of the form: value: attributeId.value Without that line it wouldn’t know what attribute value it is supposed to use. The similar structure in the…

Just noticed I left the quote marks off. I am too used to writing YAML now. Just for clarity, here is an example I have with a ‘list’ condition. "conditions": [ { "label": "STHM Status", "displayType": "list", "list": { …

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nayelyz October 8, 2021, 8:20pm 22

Great job!
Yes, as mentioned in this post, the team is working on a fix. I’ll let you know in case I receive feedback about that.

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