Did they ever make a replacement for the things shield?

[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.