Custom capabilities and tiles are coming, but severely delayed, and timing is horrible with all the news about the Classic app retirement. If you’ve written custom DTH’s, then you’ll be interested in keeping up with this discussion:
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 follow along with the example set forth in this guide, you will want to have the CLI set up, so make sure that you take this step first.
You can download the CLI here from the releases tab and read more about it in the README .
It is also recommended that you familiarize yourself with the concepts:
Custom Capabilities
Capability Presentations
Walkthrough
We are going to walk through a simple example of updating our Device Type Handler (DTH) so that devices installed with the DTH will be …
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