Ah… Right. There are two portions in the IDE: Simulation of Devices in the SmartDevice Type Handler IDE and generic Virtual Devices by Capability in the SmartApp IDE.
Consider “capability Button”, for example. The Virtual “Button Device” has only 2 Buttons + a “Wake” command… that’s not bad for some tests, but what if I want to simulate an Enerwave ZWN-SC7, 7-Button Controller?
Maybe we’re drifting off Topic; but perhaps you can create a Virtual instance of a specific Smoke Detector Type (in the Device Type IDE?), and then refer to it in the SmartApp IDE in the same account?
i.e., seems like there should be a way to dynamically create virtual devices of any actual defined Device Type when testing a SmartApp.
So that’s a good IDE feature request!