When I log into SmartThings IDE, do I always have to choose my location? I only have one location…“Home”. Is there a way to set that as default so that I don’t have to choose that each time I log in?
jkp
April 12, 2019, 7:50pm
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jkp
April 12, 2019, 8:00pm
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When you select your home location are you redirected to a different url or shard as it is called?
Not sure about that but your link seems to work so I’ll use that. Thanks.
jkp
April 12, 2019, 8:08pm
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Yes, the URL I posted will forward you to your appropriate shard (server) whereas the graph.api one does not.
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tgauchat
April 12, 2019, 8:13pm
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How the heck is https://account.SmartThings.com not common knowledge by now?
It was announced in July 2017 !
When SmartThings went for sale in the UK, they added the first of what will be many “shards” to split the SmartThings Cloud workload into multiple, somewhat independent, clusters of servers.
SmartThings automatically replicates a lot of stuff between the shards when they deploy updates and so on, but if you are doing development and you Publish “For Me”, then you need to be sure to be logged into the correct shard, or your self-published SmartApp or custom Device Type Handler will not work. You won’t find it in the mobile App!
Eventually you may not need to know your shard. Eventually, SmartThings may make this process automatic and when you self-publish, it will go to the “right” shard without intervention.
Update:
The URL: https://account.smartthings.com should take you to your correc…
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