Getting fed up. SmartThings gets worse and worse (July 2021)

[JDRoberts]

@Leon_Palnau

Believe it or not, adding your own custom device handlers to the IDE is surprisingly easy these days for someone with general IT background and a little bit of coding.

Unfortunately, SmartThings has made the decision to discontinue hosting a public groovy cloud, so that type of custom code will no longer work by the end of this year, and the IDE itself is going away. . They have announced a general timeline for this.

So we don’t really know what the options are going to be as far as custom code for hub connected devices going forward.

Announcement | Changes to our Legacy SmartThings Platform

Changes to the Legacy SmartThings Platform The explosive growth of our community and platform over the past few years has been an amazing experience for all of us at SmartThings. We have you to thank for building, innovating and growing with us as we push the envelope to what is possible in the connected home. Today, we wanted to let you know about the next evolution in our journey. We are making some important shifts in our strategy to best position our platform for the future and investing more deeply in improving the stability and security of our platform. With these changes, we will empower a broad ecosystem of developers to integrate and innovate with SmartThings using technologies of their choice. Over the course of the next several months, we plan to focus on the development of a …