ST connection to GH

[JDRoberts]

@Glossmarthomenoob

The new apps only been out for a month or so, how could it be reported a year ago?

It became a problem when the second generation voice skills were released back in April of 2020. And has been a problem ever since. You can find lots and lots of discussion of it in the forum, but that’s the bottom line. You could no longer individually authorize specific devices to the voice assistants.

New SmartThings Alexa skill (2020)

I tweeted a bit about this, but thought it might be a good heads up for the ST nerds not on Twitter Especially since new users can no longer use the old skill. The old skill is now called “SmartThings Classic” while the new one is just “SmartThings”. If you search the Alexa skill catalog you will only find the new skill, but the old/Classic one still shows under your installed skills if you already set it up. I don’t know what SmartThings’ plans are for migration, but i thought it would be worth discussing since the skill is public and new users will be using it. Based on the lack of it appearing in the Groovy IDE and appearance in the new app, the new one uses the new APIs instead of a Groovy app. So far here’s the differences I’ve noticed and my experience: Enabling the …

A lot of people still say “new app“ when they mean the 2018 V3 app. That’s the one that replaced the 2015 classic app.

Just this month the 2021 app was released but only for android. People with iOS are still using the 2018 app.