NOTICE!!: SmartThings has now released its own equivalent of this app here , so you may prefer to use that instead. I have a browser-based web app that provides a point-and-click way to explore most of the SmartThings API. For the non-technical, this gives you access to an important SmartThings r…

[image] TAustin: If you want to be in wave 2 Thanks, but I am good for now as I haven’t even started to delve into any of the API stuff yet. Hope it goes well!

Can this be used to create custom location modes? Right now that can be done through the IDE, but there’s no way to do it in the smartthings app. Lots of people use these for things like “guest“, “baby sleeping“, “party mode“, etc. At our house we use it because we have four main phases: home, away…

The answer to your question is no, if you read the first post again, it’s very well written and quite explicit on what can and can’t be done.

I’m limited by what the API provides, and I don’t see any endpoints that allow for management of modes. This is actually a curious omission, so maybe modes as we know them today are going to change?

then we will have to create a virtual driver to get the global modes back. :frowning:

[image] TAustin: endpoints that allow for management of modes [image] The End of Groovy Has Arrived Announcements They can be created using the API. A POST to https://api.smartthings.com/locations/{{locationId}}/modes with body { "label" : "{{Name of new mode}}" } s…

Thank you for this!! I’ll work on adding this in. @JDRoberts

[image] TAustin: I’m limited by what the API provides, and I don’t see any endpoints that allow for management of modes. This is actually a curious omission, so maybe modes as we know them today are going to change? I’ve been wondering that too. As mentioned previously there is the https://ap…

@Mariano_Colmenarejo has virtual device appliance driver that has SwitchBoard that has option to work same way as Location modes; only one switch can be active at the time. Currently has up to 5 switches

Late to the game but I’m interested in helping. Technical user (can use the CLI, postman, write code, etc…)

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