I stumbled upon this thread recently. For those who have it running, would you recommend setting it up? Is there still draw backs?
I’d like to customize how push notifications are being sent but wouldn’t want to break it altogether or face to many inconsistencies. Thanks!
I don’t think it’s working, I am getting an access denied error.
Even changing the URL (removing the -“graph-na04-useast2” portion) results the same error.
@Squeaky
My link does work well but my problem is different… I don’t know if I should activate it or not. Still waiting on community feedback. There is apparently some draw backs.
Try this link and add your ID (it’s case sensitive) : https://graph.api.smartthings.com/contact/
I believe the only drawback is that you won’t get hub offline notifications. I’ve been using my contacts a long time and can’t imagine not using it. It is great to have pushes only go to some users and not all without having to use SMS.
@greg Thanks for your input. What is hub offline notification? Is it simply a notification if hub link with ST cloud is down?
yes. either your internet or power is probably the reason. There are other ways to know if your power or internet is out.
Followed the instructions above to switch over to contacts. When I clicked ‘Import Contacts from Users’, it only imported my own account, but not my wife’s (even though she has a separate account and was receiving the same push notifications I was). Does anyone know why that might happen?
Also, I’m using webCoRE and when I go in to edit my pistons, I select ‘send notifications to contacts…’ but it says ‘no available contacts’ under the Contacts dropdown. Anyone experienced this?
Any assistance is much appreciated.
I would suggest just using “add a contact” but did you try importing from her account/phone?
Go into webcore where you authorize devices - and authorize contacts.
Appreciate the quick reply. Regarding the first point, I added her manually (still not sure if that worked or not because of the second point, which leads me to…). In the webCoRE SmartApp, it says ‘Your contact book is not enabled.’ under ‘Available contacts’. I followed the steps outlined above to use contacts, imported contacts from users, added the wife manually… not sure why I’m not seeing any contacts to import in webCoRE. Ideas?
Sorry, it sounds like you should be good. Hopefully someone who has enabled it more recently can chime in.
Resolved the issue.
Just in case anyone runs into a similar problem in the future… apparently I hadn’t done much in the ST IDE other than install webCoRE, so when I’d click on the My Hubs or My Devices tabs, there was nothing there (despite my ST hub being completely functional). That’s apparently a known issue (per Google search). So I clicked on my hub’s name under My Locations and refreshed (recommendation based on Google search), and finally those My Hub and My Devices lists populated. After that, I had to redo the steps above to activate the Contacts List which could then be added in webCoRE. This also resolved the issue I had with my wife’s account not being added by clicking ‘import from users’. Long story short, it was some sort of glitch with the IDE webpage, after that was resolved everything worked as it should.
Thanks again for the assistance, Greg.
BTW. Did your Push Notifications get hosed? Mine did.
As per Wayne’s post (Thanks @a4refillpad and Tanya for the pointer 
). If anyone is struggling to enable Contacts outside the US (I believe the IDE method works for US people) this works a treat. I am in the UK and it worked great!
Android ONLY! (If you do not have an android phone use a friends if possible)
Uninstall your current version of SmartThings.
Search for, download and install version 2.1.1 of SmartThings.
Login to the app, come out, kill the app in the background.
Enable ‘Flight Mode’.
Go back into SmartThings.
Go to the Hamburger Icon > My Contacts.
Disable ‘Flight Mode’.
Add yourself with your ST login email and phone number (for SMS Notifications), save. If you add a phone number and select it in any app you will then receive SMS messages also.
Update your ST app to the latest version again.
My Contacts / Contact Book will then be enabled across all your devices android / iOS.
Remember you will have to go into any apps that use Contacts (as well as standard ST apps) to enable Push Notifications for yourself again. Well I believe this is the case, not sure if you will still get them if you do not add yourself to individual apps as I just went in and changed them all lol.
I have tested it briefly and even apps that do not use Contacts are pushing notifications OK however I do believe there may be issues with using Contacts and Hub Offline notifications etc. but time will tell of course so just be wary of potential drawbacks.
Mine too, but since it came up in this thread I was expecting it.
Why did they release then hide this feature?
I have tried the URL replacement technique over 20 times and still get an access denied error.
i am using iOS and would really like to enable this.
Anyone else on the account migration beta have their “my contacts” get messed up? I no longer receive notifications.
Perform this in IDE
Leave the trailing part of the url alone or it won’t work.
Example:
Change from this:
https://graph-na02-useast1.api.smartthings.com/**account/show**/7373737373lots of letters and numbersdidjdjd
To this:
https://graph-na02-useast1.api.smartthings.com/**contact**/7373737373lots of letters and numbersdidjdjd
Thanks I’ll give that a try tonight.
New contacts added from the Phone App receive a SMS message. Not sure if it is suppressed when the contact is added from the IDE with “Notifications Enabled” unchecked as I am currently encountering an issue deleting the test contact.
anyone else stop getting notifications when my contacts is enabled and you have migrated to a samsung account?
