Hello fellow devs! We are announcing an important change that will impact some application development on the SmartThings platform.
Starting February 1st, SmartApps that are not approved and published through official the SmartThings submission process will no longer be able to install OAuth endpoints into others accounts. OAuth endpoints in your own account will continue working. This change is required to protect the privacy and security of customers of 3rd party apps as well as SmartThings customers. In addition, this change provides the ability for published SmartApps to function in global markets as SmartThings expands. Therefore we are asking that all such SmartApps be submitted for review and publication.
If you havenât seen them already, you will find changes to the Web Services SmartApp section as well as Service Managers in the newly published changes to the developer docs. These changes to the SmartThings OAuth flow to allow for global availability are presented alongside best practices to follow when you are using OAuth within the SmartThings ecosystem.
If you already have a popular smartapp that is installed using the OAuth method, we will fast-track review of these submissions in order to get them in prior to the deadline but in order to process your submission and publish the applications we are requesting that submissions be made by January 20th. Weâre here to help you if you have any questions so please donât hesitate to ask @jody.albritton and I any questions regarding these changes.
UPDATE: This change has been put on hold until we can get all the OAuth apps reviewed and published. Will update with a new date once we have these apps published.
UPDATE: These OAuth changes will be in affect starting April 1, 2016.
UPDATE: These changes are now live.