Schedules in new API

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

@beckje01

If there are specific questions around Apps lets try and figure them out here unless we are getting too far off topic.

Love the answer…

This here Topic is entitled “Schedules”, and it looks like the answer is “yes … there are schedules”; so we certainly have reason to spawn a new Topic or move over the the existing more “open” one.

There’s a particular line of questioning there, for example, as to whether or not the new API supports a possible “serverless” infrastructure (pub-sub, or use of PubNub, SSE, or ?). @billv has interfaced with Wink and dozens of other smart products, so he can express the question more clearly than I can.

Perhaps jump over to that Topic and toss in a few cents, unless you’ve got nothing new to add?

• Example using new SmartThings Cloud API! - #30 by billv

Example using new SmartThings Cloud API!

Yeah, sorry about that, I was referring to subscriptions. Let me rephrase my question. Any chance, in a future version, event subscriptions can be set up without a custom SmartApp? I just really want to avoid the situation that I have to wait 2+ years to get a SmartApp approved. Yesterday I tested the “/devices” endpoints & they worked pretty well. That could really simplify the process for users to control their SmartThings devices from the Home Remote app. Right now I’ve got a rather lengthy process that’s prone to errors. If the only thing users had to do was generate a token, that wouldn’t be so bad. Wink uses PubNub & Insteon uses SSE for their event subscriptions. Both are super easy to use & very efficient. Within a second or 2 device status changes are received. Those s…