How to begin if I want to start coding

[erickv (Israel V.)]

Hello, @Lpns

While ago I had three LIFX mini bulbs (pretty much useless then) because the LIFX integration to control lights through ST app was kinda incomplete. So with basic JavaScript - Node knowledge I’ve managed to create a connector using the NPM LIFX library and use the bulbs by my own.

Then the integration was needed, so I used the ST-Schema documentation as guidance to made it possible.

Once I shared at a post some npm libraries regarding the Xiaomi Flora Sensor. Here the post:

Writing Smartapp/Device Handler for API/Smartthings sensor

Hello, I’m new to smartthings app writing, but not new to technology and I’m hoping I can get some ideas/pointers on writing a decent smartapp/device handler for the following situation. I’m using these Xiaomi plant sensors here to measure moisture, fertilization level, temp and lux for my plants. Instead of using the app, I’ve leveraged a slightly customized version of this Project to gather the data from the BLE sensors. Things are working great, I’m using influxdb and grafana to graph the data, and I have the MQTT messages being passed to beebotte.com, which can then expose it to API calls. I would now like to present this plant data as a thing in SmartThings. What’s the best approach here? Do I start my development path on the classic method, or jump straight into the new? Do I…

There hasn’t been an update since then, but surely you can contact these developers to review your code and exchange develop approaches.

Hope this information results useful to you,
Erick.