Notification with smartThings api

[guxdude (Guy Renard)]

I also would like to be able to do a notification via the Rules API. This tutorial seems to demonstrate the lack of such capability.

Advanced Automations with the Rules API

Advanced Rules API Tutorial We will use the rules API to create a trigger that will evaluate a condition then schedule to evaluate that condition again after a defined period of time. This rule could replace SmartApps like “Notify Me When” that were previously complex groovy apps. Requirements: Postman PAT Token Getting Started Open Postman and add your PAT token to the header [image] Refresher If you are new to the Rules API, you will need to supply the locationId you want to work with for most requests GET https://api.smartthings.com/v1/rules?locationId=yourID Will return a list of your existing rules Let’s Go Use Postman in a new tab to GET some device IDs. You will need to get a contact sensor and a light bulb. Once you have these, we are going to be sending a POST comman…

While the tutorial is supposed to show a ‘notify me when’ capability, the notification consists of turning on a light. Not really what people want to do.

@nayelyz is there any plan to implement an ability for an actual notification via app in the Rules API? The Rules creation in the app allows creating notifications even to specific users but this capability is missing from the Rules API. So, the Rules API has more extensive capability than creating Rules in the app but is also limited. Seems like anything you can do in the app should be available in the API. Perhaps we need an ‘app’ device that we can command?

thanks,
Guy