Retrieve washer-dryer programs in plain English and control appliance with Python

[nayelyz (SmartThings Developer Support)]

Hi, @reverse123

The washer machine is an OCF device, this means that:

1. It has custom capabilities like samsungce.washerCycle which were created by the device manufacturer.
   1. So, unless you go one by one to compare what you see in the app or the same manufacturer shares a list of translation names, you won’t be able to get that info from any endpoint of SmartThings since we don’t own that capability.
2. The behavior of interacting with this device through the API might not be what you expect.
   1. These integrations work on the application level, not the API level. This means some commands might not work as they do in the app or you won’t see the status update through the API
   2. We’ve seen that most cases have a null value in the capabilities that never update
   3. Here are some extra details that have been shared in the past:

Get info from API

Welcome to the SmartThings Community, @Sdahl1234! This is the information we have so far by analyzing Jacob’s case. The team checked the profile assigned to the device (list of capabilities used), and they noticed the temperature and the other values are not available. They’re trying to investigate more about the root cause. More details To attempt to shed light on why some capabilities might show up in the ST app but not on the API side, the team shared these details: The phone client (ST app) uses OCF’s COAP protocol, which allows the physical device to define its resources (such as the temperature values). So, these values can be written there by the device and as a result, they can be displayed by the app. The APIs do not work via OCF, but, the profile is the manifest of what val…