Hi everyone,
SmartThings is completely new to me and I just started exploring it yesterday after I had ordered a Samsung HW-S800B Soundbar. I wanted understand what my cloud free / local control options would be to control the soundbar (I’d e.g. like to turn on ‘night mode’ at a specific time in the evening to not bother neighbors with low frequency subwoofer noise).
I have to admit that I’m still struggling to get a full picture of how the Smartthings ecosystem works and I would very much appreciate if you could help me validate what my (potentially not always correct) conclusions have been so far:
- 2021 introduced Smartthings Edge provides an option to interact with Smartthings devices locally.
- Thanks to tools provided by @TAustin I could probably explore the Smartthings API for my soundbar
- Using the Smartthings Edge Driver of @TAustin I would then be able to use the information obtained from the API to send commands to my soundbar locally
If my wrap-up makes sense to some extent maybe it would be helpful for other newbies like me to include such brief onboarding information e.g. into the initial posts of relevant discussions here in the forum and in relevant readmes e.g. on github.
Thank you!
Helge