Overview At SmartThings we want to provide tooling to allow developers to get their device integrations working in the SmartThings app. These changes will allow an integrator to move from using custom commands and attributes to custom capabilities. DTH Migration For Custom Capabilities In order to…

[image] DavinD: With the “caching” issue, do I have to rename all my devices or will it eventually refresh itself? I’m ok to wait a few days for all my devices to display correctly. Renaming them all would be a chore. It might update by itself after approximately a day. If you want to force a…

[image] cscheiene: you can rename the devices in the IDE This is how I do it now. Do you have to rename it once, then look at it in the app before you rename it back to the original name, or can you just rename it and rename it back?

If you set what you want to be displayed in the label field you can update the name field whenever you want without it changing what’s displayed in the app. The app will display whatever is in the label field, but will only trigger an update if the name field changes.

I’m really struggling with these custom caps! My Echo Speaks device has a lot of attributes and commands so I broke the capabilities into multiple items. When I first uploaded I at least got the media player card to show, but now that is gone as well Would someone mind reviewing my configs and te…

[image] cscheiene: The app will display whatever is in the label field, but will only trigger an update if the name field changes. Anyone tried to modify the device.name to trigger an update? I cannot get it to set the device.name.

@tonesto7 Looks like @kurtsanders has figure it out how display capabilities correctly. [image] Schema Devices and Custom Capabilities Tutorials WOW , thank you moneybag @philh30 ! Those two CLI steps along with editing the output file worked like a charm to create the basi…

Dear @tonesto7 , I only have basic supported capabilities displaying in my updated Ambient Weather Station DTH’s which is Phase 1 of n and only represents about 20% of the weather information that was/is displayed in the classic app. With my Ambient Weather Station and your Echo Speaks apps, we bot…

[image] cscheiene: If you want to force a refresh you can rename the devices in the IDE. I have found that changing the device type to something else and then back again seems to work. In this case, I have also found it runs the update() function instead of the initialize() function.

In your device-config file, I believe the dashboard view will only show one item. I usually delete everything from that list except the one item I want displayed. Since your first item is “refresh” I don’t think it will display anything. Everything else looks ok as long as everything is initialized.…

Regarding a custom “Switch”. I’m looking to make a switch to turn on/off the color loop function. When adding the custom capability do I have to add an attribute or just commands?

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@tonesto7 Looks like @kurtsanders has figure it out how display capabilities correctly.

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