Smart App and exposing values in the New St app

[crashtest]

I am working on developing a SmartApp that will count the number of times a motion sensor was triggered in a day. The result will be an integer.

What is the best way to expose this value in the New ST app? Is there a virtual device that is use for this purpose? Any other ideas appreciated.

[rontalley]

Do you “have” to see the values in the New App? If not, this is easily done in webCoRE and can be displayed on it’s Dashboard.

[RBoy (www.rboyapps.com - Making SmartThings Easy!)]

You can create a custom capability with the attribute you want to show and then use the state control to create a custom presentation for your DTH which can show the value in the new app.

Custom Capability and CLI Developer Preview

Overview At SmartThings we want to provide tooling to allow developers to get their device integrations working in the SmartThings app. These changes will allow an integrator to move from using custom commands and attributes to custom capabilities. DTH Migration For Custom Capabilities In order to follow along with the example set forth in this guide, you will want to have the CLI set up, so make sure that you take this step first. You can download the CLI here from the releases tab and read more about it in the README. It is also recommended that you familiarize yourself with the concepts: Custom Capabilities Capability Presentations Walkthrough We are going to walk through a simple example of updating our Device Type Handler (DTH) so that devices installed with the DTH will be …

[crashtest]

I don’t want to have to use webCore. I am actually using The Home Remote for displaying the value not the SmartThings app but in order for the HA to display it, the value needs to be in a device.