Dear @GSzabados,
First of all, I would have loved to get Ambient Weather Station and all my other ST apps to display all the custom data fields and continue development of my suite of public applications. The new ST mobile interface is a train wreck and a 100 car pile up for it… I don’t see the new UI getting any better anytime soon and the dashboard and tile layout is a step backward with limited display, endless scrolling, hidden actions, a 20 room max, huge wasted space, missing device logging, no SmartApp dependancies list, etc. It is perfect for basic end users that have a handful of motion and light sensors only.
I have literally pulled ALL MY {available} HAIR out trying to patiently learn this unsolvable matrix called ‘custom capabilities’ and the new UI over the past 4 months. The gaps/bugs, holes, totally missing API parts, tricks, removing Echo Speaks, having to add virtual switches for new ‘less functional’ ST Alexa integration, painfully slow device data updates in the UI, annoying device plugin cache issue, etc just too name a few, I could go on for days but it’s not healthy…
As a skilled integration developer for the ST user community, original V1 long time customer, who made it through the painful migration to V2, survived the backend platform instability years, etc, I have decided to focus all my migration work to the HE C7 platform which, IMHO, is 100% easier for development, supports HTML in GUI, works with sharptools.io for dashboard, better logging/debugging, much more robust with; fast local processing (e.g. no cloud, no latency, no delay), has WebCore & Echo Speaks, Z devices work even when the Internet doesn’t, local configuration backups, advanced API connections (e.g. Telnet Interface, Websocket Interface, Raw Socket Interface, MQTT Interface, etc), etc. And if you have seen Hubitat Package Manager, it is excellent for easily distributing and auto updating all the end user applications that are available and being developed. I am back to getting excited with developing on HE instead of disappointed with ST.
My current ST public legacy applications (Ambient Weather, Orbit Bhyve, BitBar, etc) will still work with ST WebCore for accessing all the data but I will not be updating the DTH or app. I am not on board with ST’s direction to ‘roll your own app servers’ and who knows how long ST WebCore has (groovy is going away) or what ST will remove in the new platform, since ST management has their sights on removing end user developed applications that they target as ‘resource intensive’.
I don’t fault SmartThings and Samsung for their company decision to change almost everything that was working perfectly for their base of clients, I just choose a better path for my time and effort and future home automation projects.