Hello, I would like to understand how to get a full list of capabilities. I try to list capabilities using the rest API call : api/v1/capabilities. But for example, I’ve got a cooktop device from samsung. When I ask capabilities for this device, I’ve got some result with samsungce prefix, for ex…

[image] lo92fr: Hello, I would like to understand how to get a full list of capabilities. I try to list capabilities using the rest API call : api/v1/capabilities. But for example, I’ve got a cooktop device from samsung. When I ask capabilities for this device, I’ve got some result with sams…

Hello, Ok, thanks for your answer. I was a litle disapointed about this because detail endpoint return the capability, but not the listing endpoint. Laurent.

[image] h0ckeysk8er: @orangebucket might know of an unpublished API that might. I am not aware of one, but I don’t really see why there would be one. The /capabilities endpoint shows the stock capabilities and users can see the custom capabilities created in their own namespaces, or those of …

[image] orangebucket: to be useful but only the stock capabilities in the defaultsmartthings namespace are really a shared resource. Developers should be using the stock capabilities and if those aren’t adequate they should be using their own custom capabilities. If they use those belonging to a…

Hi, @lo92fr . Welcome to the SmartThings Community! [image] lo92fr: If I undestand you, the correct way to do things is to ignore this organization / custom capabilities, and just work with stock capabilities. It’s not about a correct/wrong way of doing it. The thing is that custom capabiliti…

[image] lo92fr: If I undestand you, the correct way to do things is to ignore this organization / custom capabilities, and just work with stock capabilities. Custom capabilities are created by users or organisations for their own purposes. We don’t know what those purposes are or how the capa…

Extended capabilites list,

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lo92fr (Laurent) December 18, 2024, 11:46am 8

Hello Graham,

Thanks for this precision, this is now clear for me.
We can close the discussion as I’ve got no other question for now.

Laurent.

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