Did they ever make a replacement for the things shield?

[CR76]

Hi Guys

Been away from the community for a few years after I dropped the beginning of a project to replace the smartthings shield.see link.

Samsung SmartThings Arduino Switch

What is the latest on this whole conundrum so I get can get back up to speed?

[ritchierich (Michael)]

SmartThings dropped it but a community member @drandyhaas recently designed and created a replacement:

Thingshield replacement solution for about $15 - can connect smartthings to arduino again over zigbee!

If you recall the old Thingshield, it was an arduino shield that let you connect your arduino project to smartthings, over zigbee. It makes for endless possibilities, allowing you to create any zigbee device you like, very simply. Unfortunately, smartthings stopped making the Thingshield a few years ago. I believe I now have a replacement, called “Mona Lisa”, based on the cc2530 zigbee chip from TI. It can pass 16 character strings to/from a smartthings device handler to/from the cc2530 device, which then passes the strings to/from a simple serial port that you can connect to 2 pins on your arduino (or anything else, like even a computer with a usb -serial adapter). That’s basically all the Thingshield did. On top of that, it can also have some functionality without being attached to an …

@ogiewon also updated his STAnything library to use the very cheap ESP8266 wifi boards too.

[JDRoberts]

[DEPRECATED] ST_Anything - Arduino/ESP8266/ESP32

UPDATE 2022-08-17 - Per this recent SmartThings announcement, the Groovy IDE will disabled on September 30, 2022. My best guess is that any existing ST_Anything devices will probably cease to operate at this time, or shortly thereafter. It has been a good 7+ year run for ST_Anything users. I want to thank you all for making ST_Anything a successful project! My son and I really had a lot of fun creating it together, and have enjoyed hearing how you have all used it in so many creative ways. As many of you probably already know, I have moved on from ST and have ported ST_Anything over to Hubitat as “HubDuino”. If you have devices running ST_Anything that you ‘can’t live without,’ at least you know you have options. Another option for ESP8266/ESP32 users would be to use ESPHome along …