Directly Connected Device - Healthcheck Offline Notification

[Phil1972]

Hi everyone!

I built a directly connected device using the C SDK and an ESP8266. When the device goes offline, it is reported properly in the app and marked as offline. My question is: Is there a way to display a notification on the phone that this device went offline ? It does it automatically for example when my Samsung router goes offline, but it seems some extra steps are required for a custom a device.

anyone can help ?

thanks,

[nayelyz]

Hi, @Phil1972! Up to now, there’s no option to send Push notifications based on the Health Status. A worth to try workaround is:

• Create a SmartApp and create a subscription to devices health (subscribeToDeviceHealth - this includes all the devices in a location).
• When the events online/offline are received, turn on/off a virtual switch, or change a virtual dimmer value.
• Create an automation in the app based on the switch/dimmer events to send notifications.

[nayelyz]

Hi, @Phil1972.
Just a quick update, there’s now an option to create push notifications from a SmartApp, so, when you receive an “offline”/“online” event from the Subscription, you can show a message.
Take a look at this post, there’s a simple sample of this feature:

Automation Smartapp permission problem

Good news @fison67! As there’s no official documentation about the Notifications API, you can base your configuration on the notification.ts module from the SmartThings Core SDK. Actually, it is very simple, check this “hello world” example to have a basic reference on how to implement it. Note: Specifying posts as Solutions will help other to fast track them if they need.

[Phil1972]

Thanks, I will look at it and see if it works

[Phil1972]

It seems I am not too sure about doing a SmartApp, I will have to dig in. I thought SmartApp could be hosted on SmartThings server directly but it looks like I need AWS or my own server for which I am not too familiar.