Platform Developer Agreement

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

@jodyalbritton

I think a great first step would be at least a website that allows users to rate and discuss various smart apps sorted by category.

Ideas around this are getting suddenly momentum in the last few days, including…

Suggested Community Category: Plug and Play Solutions (no custom code)

I can code. I don’t want to. Imagine you are wearing an oven mitt on each hand. You have voice response software which is OK, not perfect. Now try using most of the answers to most of the questions in most of the topics in the community. “Cut and paste” is not going to go well. Coding Groovy is going to go worse. Debugging groovy code is really, really difficult because it’s hard to get the cursor positioned just so. So while I’m all in favor of better GitHub integration, more examples, and a beefed up IDE, none of that solves my issues. I suggest adding a Category to the forum for no code solutions. Anything from “Is there an irrigation system that works with SmartThings?” to “How can I give my guests the ability to turn the lights on and off?” is going to get a very different set…

And, my own Topic which could encompass popular Apps, perhaps?..

Genesis of a way to create and publish "Community Generated FAQs"

Continuing the discussion from Smart Alarm is here: This will make for an excellent FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions / Ad Hoc Mini-Guides) entry; Actually, at least 2 entries: (a) how to install a shared SmartApp – certainly asked and answered dozens of times probably in different Topics and READ.md’s, and (b) what are some “tablet as control or security panel” setups available and recommendations. SmartThings (@April, @Ben, @Jim, and the gang) has heard our desires for various sorts of Knowledge Bases (KB’s), Known Issues, etc., but that may or may not be redundant with Community Generated FAQs – even if some or all of such FAQ Topics are only transient as they get absorbed one by one into official ST reference resources. @April and I started a very casual discussion on where some Comm…