When you add a device by brand or type, after you press the Start button, it shows the Hub and Room drop downs.
If the hub has memory issues, it will show there.
Got it; thanks.
Which of these virtual devices would have a capability of storing time.
Basically i have an api which returns some time data which I would like to store in these devices.
and trigger automations if current time = data stored in these devices.
any help would be highly appreciated
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Hello,
I was able to create virtual presense sensor using your instruction but I dont know how to associate the presense sensor to a mobile phone. I must miss something would you point me to the right direction
thank you
First, let’s assume you have your mobile phone known by SmartThings.
What you need to do is create a couple automation routines that would say something like:
Mobile Phone at Home:
IF mobile phone is present at my location
THEN turn on virtual presence device
Mobile Phone is Away:
If mobile phone is away from my location
THEN turn off virtual presence device
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If anyone is using virtual devices in combination with my webrequestor driver in order to send http requests, you know it can take multiple automation routines to set up. I’ve created a new driver that might help reduce these automations by including configurable http request capability inside the virtual device. The driver initially supports device types of switch, button, dimmer, and alarm, but I plan to add more based on community requests. If this is of interest to you, see my post here.
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@TAustin I see there’s a virtual thermostat in there. I’ve installed and created it, but how do I get the temperature from a sensor into the virtual thermostat?
Or is it more intended just to just to use the heating setpoint?
I thought a simple routine might work, but there’s not a “changes” trigger option.
What kind of Temperature sensor? If it’s Zigbee you can use @Mariano_Colmenarejo’s Zigbee Temp Sensor with Thermostat Mc driver. It adds virtual thermostat to any Zigbee sensor with Temperature capability
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I did see and install that, but so far smartthings won’t let me change the driver on my smartthings button or smartthings multipurpose sensors to use that.
I’m running out of options if they hold to their word and shut down the groovy platform by the end of the year.
I’m using virtual device temp/humidity.
I use it to post temperature values through the SmartThings API.
I had problems to find the correct format for JSON.
If anyone wants to use SmartThings API to update temperature value
the JSON format is
[
{
“component”: “main”,
“capability”: “partyvoice23922.vtempset”,
“command”: “setvTemp”,
“arguments”: [ 23.90 ]
}
]
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@TAustin Do have advice/direction/templates for someone (ahem, me) looking to build custom virtual device drivers for ST? I have two or three unique Hubitat devices I’d like to mirror to ST.
The mirroring I can do, but I’m trying to decide if I’m game to building the driver myself. I’m probably in over my head, but occasionally that’s how I learn.
I’ve actually been thinking about posting my vEdge driver to a public github repository. Virtual device drivers have become kind of a dime-a-dozen now! I already have a number of Edge drivers posted to github that you could look at. In fact my latest MQTT and HTTP Devices drivers are basically virtual devices with built-in protocol support. I think they are both up there, but may not be the very latest.
How do you plan on doing the integration between your devices and an Edge driver?
Thanks. I’ll take a look and see if I can figure out how it all works, and if not maybe dig around for a tutorial somewhere. If my head doesn’t explode and I don’t think it’ll result in days or weeks of futile cursing, maybe I’ll take a crack at it. 
@TAustin I’ve been using your driver for a while now just like you showed above and it’s been working great!! The main reason I use virtual presence devices is because ST doesn’t show the phone as a thing which I want to see, so the virtual device takes its place. And I set my location status and lights settings based on the virtual device status rather than the actual phone because you enabled the on/off switch on the virtual device so I can actually manually set the virtual device status if for some reason the phones location isn’t being determined properly as home or away.
Anyway, to get to the point, I have an Aeotec hub set up at my cottage. I’d like to set up some routines that will control lights based on the phones presence at the cottage. But if I change the virtual device to present for the cottage, won’t that also show it is present at home? Is the answer to set up a second virtual presence device for each mobile phone that gets its presence determined by geolocation at the cottage?
Thanks
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Assuming you’re Home and cottage are set up as separate locations you won’t have a problem. Enroll the cottage hub in the required channel and install the Presence Sensor driver.
Make sure your cottage hub has the right physical address.
Yes, home and cottage are separate locations, with each hub geolocated to their address.
I still think I need 2 virtual presence sensors for each of my and my wife’s phones. That way the actual phone’s presence at home will turn on or off the “virtual home phone”, and the actual phone’s presence at the cottage will turn on or off the “virtual cottage phone”. Then I can run routines based on each of those statuses at each location.
I have 2 locations and it works fine. One for home and 1 for camp.
This has probably been asked before, but I couldn’t easily find it. I have v2.3 installed on my hub. How do I get it updated to 2.5?
Normally, drivers will update on their own…at some interval…maybe someone else knows the frequency.
However, the easiest way I have found to FORCE an update of an Edge driver, is to attempt to delete the driver. Since the driver is connected to a device, it shows an error…but it initiates an upgrade in the background.