How / Where do I install a custom Device Handler (DTH) for a Hue Outdoor Motion Sensor?

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Hello,
I am new to the SmartThings community and need some help installing a custom Device Handler.
I have a Hue Outdoor Sensor and have found the custom device handler for that device, along with posts about how to get it to work the way I want it to. I just can’t seem to get the custom handler installed.
I have read the posts and they all suggest the following steps:

  1. Log Into The SmartThings App. Open the app and log in with the same username and password for your smart home hub.
  2. Click On My Device Handlers. …
  3. Click On Create New Device Handler. …
    The problem is that when I log into SmartThings, there is no “My Device Handlers” or “Create New Device Handler” (either when I log into the app or when I log into the website.
    I am sure I am just missing something here, but could someone please help me figure out how to get to where I can install a custom Device Handler.
    I have a Hue Outdoor Sensor and have found the custom device handler for that device, along with posts about how to get it to work the way I want it to. I just can’t seem to get the custom handler installed.
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SmartThings is in the midst of a transition. Groovy, the language in which Device Handlers are written, is being deprecated. As part of that transition, you can no longer add new Device Handlers to the IDE, which is also being deprecated gradually over the coming months.

Device Handlers are being replaced with Edge Drivers. If you post the model number of the Hue sensor you are seeking a driver for, someone will comment with the most appropriate driver for it.

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As @Bry said, Device Handlers are going away and are replaced by Edge drivers. So your documentation is no longer valid for installing a custom Device Handler.

Note that the place you would have installed them is still around at ide.smartthings.com but the ability to create new device handlers has been disabled as part of the transition.

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Hue are popular devices so you should have no trouble getting them functional under Edge. Searching around here will likely prove helpful.

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As others have said, there is likely an edge driver (the replacement for the old architecture’s DTHs) that will do what you need. We do need to just ask a couple of things first.

  1. do you have a smartthings/Aeotec hub, and if so, which model?

  2. do you have a hue hub, or were you intending to use the hue outdoor motion sensor directly with a smartthings hub? Either way will work, they are just different edge drivers. Or if you don’t have a smartthings hub, then you do need to have a hue hub.

Once we know that, we can point you at the right solution. Edge drivers are actually much easier to use than the old DTHs: you just follow a link that the author will give you, subscribe to their channel, select the driver that you want to use, and it will be automatically downloaded to your own hub. It’s just taking all of us a little time to get used to all the changes. :sunglasses:

BTW, for the future, any posts or webpages that you find that are dated earlier than September 2022 are probably using the old architecture, so you may need to come to this forum to find methods that work with the new architecture.

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Hi
I use this Edge Driver for my Hue Motion Sensor. I have indoor model but the author of the driver said that it’s work for Outdoor sensor from Hue as well

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Thanks for all of the kind help and advice.
I do have a SmartThings hub - Model: IM6001-V3P01
I do not have a hue hub and was hoping to hese the Hue Outdoor Motion Sensor directly with the SmartThings Hub.
The Hue Outdoor Sensor is Model 9290019758
Again, THANKS for the help.
This community is GREAT!

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OK, the following community-created edge driver should work for you.

[Edge Driver] Hue Motion Sensor (No Hue Bridge)

Follow the invitation link in the first post in that thread. That will take you to a webpage where you can subscribe to the channel and then select the edge driver you want to download to your own hub.

It will then be automatically downloaded. This normally only takes a few minutes, but some users have reported it can take several hours.

Once it is downloaded, you can, then “scan nearby“ in the SmartThings app to connect the outdoor motion sensor to your hub, and it should use the new edge driver.

If you have any further questions about that edge driver, ask in that thread.

If you’d like to learn more about edge in general, here’s the community FAQ for that:

FAQ: I have no idea what Edge is. Is that a new developer tool? (2022)