One Of The Guides I Wish We'd Had

[JDRoberts]

Well done.

One small point that should help avoid considerable confusion in the future… It’s best to recommend that everyone get to the IDE through the universal sign-on URL. Not https://graph.api.smartthings.com/

The Universal Signon URL: https://account.smartthings.com

The reason is that different people have their cloud account on different “shards“ so some people trying to follow your link will end up on a screen where all of their devices are missing.

If instead, they use the universal sign on URL, it will automatically direct them to the correct shard.

See the community FAQ,

FAQ: How to find out what "shard" (cloud slice IDE URL) your Account / Location is on?

When SmartThings went for sale in the UK, they added the first of what will be many “shards” to split the SmartThings Cloud workload into multiple, somewhat independent, clusters of servers. SmartThings automatically replicates a lot of stuff between the shards when they deploy updates and so on, but if you are doing development and you Publish “For Me”, then you need to be sure to be logged into the correct shard, or your self-published SmartApp or custom Device Type Handler will not work. You won’t find it in the mobile App! Eventually you may not need to know your shard. Eventually, SmartThings may make this process automatic and when you self-publish, it will go to the “right” shard without intervention. Update: The URL: https://account.smartthings.com should take you to your correc…