How to trigger a function in an edge driver from another device?

[philh30]

@georgeh

add a custom capability to my existing driver for the energy monitor devices to cause the reset, and invoke that across all 3 physical devices (which use the common driver) via a scene

This. The capability needs to be on the driver that the physical device is using. Below are high level steps for creating one.

Edge Drivers - Driver Presentation and Custom Capabilities

Here are the basic steps. Each of these is potentially a topic by itself, and I’d recommend looking at the API docs for reference on how to build the various inputs for each. Create the capability: smartthings capabilities:create -j -i new_cap.json Create translations for the capability. You can also use update or create, but upsert will avoid errors since the en locale is created by default when the capability is created. smartthings capabilities:translations:upsert -j -i new_cap_translation.json Create the capability presentation, referencing the translations you just created for any labels. smartthings capabilities:presentation:create -j -i new_cap_presentation.json Add the capability to the profile.yml in your driver (and elsewhere in your driver as necessary). That’s usually en…