Life after the IDE: Questions and Answers

[JDRoberts]

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Need a Z wave device ID so you can set associations? Or zigbee IDs for group information? Here’s a community-created Utility.

[EDGE][RELEASE] Simple Device Info Viewer

With the IDE going away, I thought I would write a simple device viewer as a front end for the smartthings API to see information that is not visible in the app. One of my drivers requires the user to be able to get the zigbee network id of a device, this also provides a way to do that. The App is just HTML & Javascript (I’m not a webdev so please be kind) - there is no server component other than the smartthings server - so if you like you can just save it as a webpage down to your machine, or you can run it in-place on github pages. How to use Go to SmartThings. Add a little smartness to your things. and create a new PAT (personal access token), you will need to give it at least devices and locations permissions - you need to keep this secure and save it for re-use - this is affectiv…

Another similar project, but with a number of additional features is the API browser plus:

SmartThings API Browser+ ... Now Available to All

NOTICE!!: SmartThings has now released its own equivalent of this app here, so you may prefer to use that instead. I have a browser-based web app that provides a point-and-click way to explore most of the SmartThings API. For the non-technical, this gives you access to an important SmartThings resource without having to learn tools like Postman, curl, or the CLI. You don’t even need a computer: a tablet or even smartphone can be used. For the more technically inclined, it provides much faster and more convenient access to those commonly-accessed CLI commands. Although I originally thought of it as a portal for the non-technical, I’ve actually found it quite useful to use during my own development activities. This is not intended as a replacement or ‘competitor’ to the CLI, mysmart…