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 endpoi…

To be clear, this is only for ‘auto install’ apps…not for apps that the user downloads code and enable OAuth on their own?

You got it @MichaelS As long as the customer can see the code they are allowed to use it. :smile:

For example, SmartTiles would be an 3rd party application using OAuth that needs ST approval? Will there be a published list of those approved 3rd party OAuth and will the application break and that will be our notice?

I hope Harmony integration doesn’t break :smile:

[image] slagle: This change is required to protect the privacy and security of customers of 3rd party apps as well as SmartThings customers. While I do not disagree with the value of this change for various good reasons, I think it is important to note that the incremental difference in “secu…

[image] kurtsanders: For example, SmartTiles would be an 3rd party application using OAuth that needs ST approval? Will there be a published list of those approved 3rd party OAuth and will the application break and that will be our notice? SmartTiles is indeed a SmartApp using this “shared” …

[image] tgauchat: However, SmartThings doesn’t really have a way “at their fingertips” to find all such SmartApps at this time (to my knowledge), and so it is up to the Developers of the SmartApps to submit them for Marketplace listing and inform their users of any updated versions or installati…

Hey @slagle , the Simple Rule Builder SmartApp was submitted for review a few months ago. Any chance you can help make sure it gets reviewed before the deadline?

Does this mean that SmartTiles won’t work now??

It will continue to work if you already have it installed. We are working with them to get it ready for the cut off as well.

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Silverpawn (Brian) May 3, 2016, 1:15pm 17

Has anyone put together a list of the major 3rd Party smartapps that are not going to work as we’ve just started to see some issues where apps have stopped working. But at the moment it’s not clear whether this is the cause.

Topic		Replies	Views
Https://graph.api.smarthings.com Failed to load devices SmartApps & Automations	110	13126	December 27, 2015
[Obsolete Info] SmartTiles v5.x Alert: Installation Deadline Community Created SmartApps dashboard , oauth , smarttiles.click , smarttiles	15	4351	March 28, 2016
Was the Smart Things security flaw for smartlocks fixed? General Discussion security	10	3756	February 2, 2017
OAuth for Custom SmartThings App General Discussion devicetype , smartapp , oauth , developers	14	3446	July 30, 2016
Why some SmartApps may not be publishable SmartApps & Automations	64	9590	July 27, 2015

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