Got an Amazon Echo Dot- How do I get Smartthings to 'Play message on speaker'

[JDRoberts]

Glad to hear it’s working!

Webcore/Pistons Will be going away soon when the Samsung hosted free groovy cloud goes away, probably within a few months.

For that reason, it’s better to do as many things as you can with routines in the smartthings app, since those are using the new architecture. Here’s the official announcement about that. (The topic title is a clickable link)

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 …

There are also some advanced options in the new architecture which have more features, and so are more like pistons, but they are still in development so they may not do everything you want yet either. The main one is the “rules API.“ you can read more about that here:

FAQ: Getting Started with the new Rules API