Before I start writing one, is there any such Smart App available that I can use to schedule my generic Zigbee thermostats?
Any search on such a topic yields results from nearly a decade ago and has to do with the old classic model.
Thanks.
Yes, that figures. The basic Webhook SmartApps aren’t particularly hard to code but they are more fiddly to install than they were in the Classic environment, especially as they aren’t hosted in the SmartThings cloud any more. That said almost everything can be done with nice clean API calls. The one stage that can’t be done is publishing the app to your Location, or in simpler terms making your app appear in the list of available SmartApps in your mobile app. That’s still an API call but a messy one that depends on there being a Developer Workspace project. The last place you want to send anyone is to the Developer Workspace. It’s nearly as bad as entering the Galaxy Store without a hazmat suit on. So that really screws up app sharing.
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Hmm. Did they do away with the newer smart app sharing model thing? I have a few other smart apps on my own developer channel (it’s been a while so I’m probably getting the lingo wrong) but never shared them out. I was just suspecting someone by now has a simple thermostat scheduler already written and shared out but I suppose I can code up my own.
I suppose SmartThings is getting more and more dead? I’ve thought of going Home Assistant like everyone else but don’t really feel like re-coding a lot of my custom stuff.
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I wasn’t aware that they’d ever created one.
They don’t seem particularly interested in Webhook SmartApps. Updating of Installed SmartApps has been broken in the mobile app for months now.
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I don’t think SmartThings is getting “more and more dead.” My take is that there’s been a general reinvigoration of the smart home space since Apple introduced HomeKit and also since the Matter introduction, and Samsung has made a real effort to invest more on this platform.
That being said, I believe that they are frustratingly opaque when it comes to acknowledging and fixing problems, and in providing a roadmap to their future plans.
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I use a collection of routines to change the set point of my thermostats?
Is that what you had in mind? or did you have more sophisticated requirements?