New to GitHub & smartapps

[rgrabsch (Richard)]

Hi

I have been using smartthings for about 4 months and all has gone pretty well. Iam now looking to be able to utilise some of the smartapps created by the developer community. My efforts to date have not been very successful. Iam totally new to GitHub and I am struggling with adding these custom apps to my account.
Can anyone suggest where I can find a good start to finish tutorial To assist me with this task - bearing in mind my current low level of knowledge in this area.

Hoping someone can assist.

Thanks

Richard

[tgauchat (ActionTiles.com co-founder Terry @ActionTiles; GitHub: @cosmicpuppy)]

Here’s the “Welcome FAQ” on the topic.

It may not cover GitHub; but you don’t need GitHub to get started with basic installation of Community shared apps (just “copy” the RAW view of the shared code from someone’s GitHub link…).

[OBSOLETE] FAQ: An Overview of Using Custom Code in SmartThings (SmartThings Classic, Groovy Code)

The original FAQ information in this thread refers to the original smartthings architecture, which was in place through the end of 2022 and a little beyond. Custom code was written in the groovy programming language and ran in the smartthings cloud. As of May 2023, you can no longer add new Groovy DTH‘s or smartapps to your smartthings account. So if you came here because of a link in an old forum thread, or on another site, I’m afraid the Groovy information is no longer usable. All of this was replaced by a new architecture. Cloud to cloud integrations use the smartthings API. Hub connected devices, mostly Zigbee and zwave, now use “Edge Drivers,” written in the LUA programming language. Here’s the official announcement on those: The process for using a custom Edge Driver in the new …