Hi, Following @TAustin 's great work on vEdge Creator, I was curious to explore a different approach for creating virtual devices. The driver allows creation of devices one-by-one. [image] Smart home with Samsung SmartThings | Samsung US SmartThings makes your home smarter. Meet the i…

I’ve opened a ticket. #1484688 in case you want to do the same. Maybe someone will take notice at Smartthings.

Same issue here. Sometimes Alexa does not recognized contact sensor / switch changes in smartthings. it stops working and later it does. I was going to switch the @TAustin driver to see whether the behavior is the same, but it looks like it is based on @sdbg post. Just out of curiosity are these…

I’ve tried multiple different edge drivers from various sources including @TAustin and Yacov. At one time I thought maybe Yacov was slightly more reliable, but at this point I’m comfortable in saying that both are equally inconsistant in terms of triggering Alexa on the regular. Wondering if it mig…

It’s not related to a short period of time as I’ve had it happen when a switch is turned on in the morning to activate morning routines, after no activity on switches overnight. I opened a ticket with Smartthings as well, hoping that enough people opening tickets makes them have a look. This has h…

You raised an interesting point that I hadn’t noticed. The virtual switch status is being updated correctly in Alexa, but for some reason the routine is not triggering. Since the Alexa routine is triggered (presumably) by the Alexa cloud, I wonder if we shouldn’t be opening tickets there as well?

In my case, i hadn’t noticed as after a while the switch gets reset in smartthings. It’s history in smartthings does show it turn on and subsequently off. Unless there is someplace in Alexa where i can see device history, i can’t tell that Alexa ever saw the change as it turns on and a few minu…

[image] sdbg: You raised an interesting point that I hadn’t noticed. The virtual switch status is being updated correctly in Alexa, but for some reason the routine is not triggering. Since the Alexa routine is triggered (presumably) by the Alexa cloud, I wonder if we shouldn’t be opening ticke…

@JDRoberts and @sdbg - It happened again this morning. A contact sensor/switch to turn off my camera in the morning triggered but the Alexa routine did not. I appreciate the switch vs contact sensor issue which is why I implement the contact sensors, which include a switch. I don’t know how to ch…

[image] tktps: @JDRoberts and @sdbg - It happened again this morning. A contact sensor/switch to turn off my camera in the morning triggered but the Alexa routine did not. I appreciate the switch vs contact sensor issue which is why I implement the contact sensors, which include a switch. I d…

[image] h0ckeysk8er: The other question I would have is whether the routine fires if you change the sensor state in the Alexa app Good idea, but I don’t believe that’s possible. Alexa just treats these the same as any physical sensor, they are not actionable. :thinking: You could try changin…

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[ST Edge] vEdge Creator: a virtual device generator for end users Community Created Drivers project_voice , edge-device , edge_virtual	2254	124076	December 19, 2025
[ST Edge] Virtual Hub Kit [BETA] Community Created Drivers edge_virtual , edge_misc , edge_garage	176	9441	February 28, 2026
[OBSOLETE] Alexa Virtual Device Creator (Formally Alexa Virtual Switch) Creator Community Created SmartApps smartapp_virtual	63	17775	August 27, 2020
FAQ: Creating a virtual Groovy Device [OBSOLETE] Wiki virtualdevice	137	202926	November 15, 2021
[Release] Virtual Alexa Switch/Button Community Created Drivers dth_virtual , alexa , dth_alerts , project_alerts	124	49411	April 10, 2022

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