Home Assistant controlling cloud integrated SmartThings appliances

[GSzabados (Gabor Szabados)]

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Smartthings status information is buggy

Thanks for the tag, @GSzabados! Welcome to the SmartThings Community, @sipiyou! Ok, the issue is not the capability itself or the API. In this case, who handles the capability events is the device controller, I think OCF devices (Eg. Samsung AC, Oven, etc.) still use DTH. Also, a curious thing about OCF devices is that they work on a plugin level (app) and not through the API. This means the values showed in the API are not always complete or updated… In this post, I shared more details about that: Get info from API - #9 by nayelyz For example, these are the results of a device that works with an ST Schema integration that completely interacts with the API: [image] In the capability event handler of this integration I set the value received in the command directly without modify…

TLTR:

All the Samsung integrated devices are a hot mess. See my comment below that post as well.

PS:

I know how you feel about this, I have a robotvacuum, a fridge and a washer (and a non-smart dryer). BUT I haven’t tried to integrate into Home Assistant due to that mess and outstanding issues in the integration like this, which are years old