Struggling newbie with iTach

[JDRoberts]

@jvigeant

ideally I’m looking to have a collection of ‘virtual buttons’ in the Smartthings App ( somewhere ) that will let me send different commands ( a string of chars ) to my iTach.over TCP. like a remote ‘TV Remote’ of sorts

My problem is i can’t figure out how to create a logical collection of ‘buttons’ that could trigger different events in the smartthings app on my phone…

You’re asking for a different reason, but the answer will be very similar to the answers in the following thread:

Is there no trigger from a simple phone button?

I’m on my second day of playing with SmartThings, I’m a software engineer by day. I’m having a little trouble with the mental model of how things are organized a bit. So SmartApps look great, I’m a programmer, so I love that wide open sandbox capability. I’ve got devices that trigger events that I can write handlers for. Great. So where is the event for clicking a button on my phone? I must be missing something simple, but I’ve searched and read documentation, and I haven’t seen it yet. I see a bunch of sensor events, and have been able to make my motion sensor trigger a callback, but now I just want to have a button on my phone that triggers a callback (that starts a slow ramp-down of a dimmer, but that’s not pertinent to my question). Any help appreciated.