See post 68 below dated August 31. This is a custom device handler. (Formerly called smart device type.) The Custom Code FAQ explains how to install it for use in your account.
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 …
Once the device handler is installed, you can then add the smart app from the following topic:
I just posted a simple SmartApp that will create virtual single button devices for each button in a multi-button device. For example, I tested it with the Enerwave 7 Button Scene Controller, which has 7 buttons. With a single button device, it is much easier to use in a SmartApp in a common way, using only the capability.button. This also allows these types of devices to work with SmartRules (see here - http://smartrulesapp.com ), so you can easily create a rule for each button on the device.
To make the Enerwave device work, it just needed a slightly modified device type, which is posted to the GitHub repo. It should work with the default device type for the Aeon Minimote. I also made small modifications to the existing community-created device types for the SmartenIt ZBWS3B and the Secur…
The smart app has a little setup wizard that will let you assign activities to each of the keyfob’s three working buttons.
There are also other smart apps you could use, hopefully people can explain which they selected and why.
