OK, downloaded Obything. Now how do you use it?

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I’ve used it on both V1 and V2, no issues.
There really isn’t a big difference between the 2.

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I’m still on v1. I didn’t see a benefit to upgrading the hardware.

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The app works great. The negative reviews are from people who don’t understand the app. My thanks to the obythings developer.

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New to SmartThings community, so I hope I am asking in the right place.

I currently have ObyThings setup for the “Speaker Notify with Sound”. I went into the configuration, set it so when a door sensor is opened, it plays the sound “A Door Open”. I also tried other sounds from the list. When the action is triggered, iTunes is opened and I receive a notification that “a+door+opened.mp3” is playing, but no sound actually plays out. If I open iTunes and watch the action get triggered, the file opens really quickly and then goes away, doesn’t actually play. But if I double click on the audio file in iTunes, it plays. It only does not play when it is triggered from SmartThings. I have uninstalled and reinstalled everything and still no luck. I turned my firewall off and made sure both my SmartThings and Mac were on the same network.

I am running MacOSX 10.11.4 and iTunes 12.3. Not sure if there is something I am doing wrong or if anyone has any suggestions or more of a detailed guide of setting it up.

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I’ve never seen that issue. Are you using the published SmartApp and Device Type or the self-installed versions from GitHub? You may want to try those, as the published ones are out-dated. When you use those, we’ve also got our own version of Notify with Sound which will let you also choose which AirPlay speakers you’d like to play the sound on.

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Okay, I will give the GitHub code a try. I have no issue with ObyThings controlling my iTunes pause/play, volume and etc from within SmartThings. The only issue is just with the sound files not playing when triggered, so I wonder if it is an issue with the “Speaker Notify with Sound” which I also selected from the SmartThings published apps.

I will give it a try and update once I run some tests. Thanks!

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I certainly do not see the ability to pick a specific speaker when setting this up. do you have screen shots?

thx

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I’m getting the following message when trying to download ObyThing. Has this been discontinued or what am I missing?

“The item you’ve requested is not currently available in the U.S. store.”

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sub’d… incase there are any updates to this thread from @obycode for the new release.