Trigger when device chnages state?

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  1. If you have an Android phone and are in the US or Korea, there is an option under smartthings labs in the app that can do it.

  2. failing that, if you have a smartthings/Aeotec hub, there are several community-created edge drivers that can create virtual devices for you. Each has different features. They are listed on the “virtual devices” list on the quick browse lists in the community-created wiki.

https://thingsthataresmart.wiki/index.php?title=Quick_Browse_Lists_for_Edge_Drivers

  1. if you don’t have a hub but you do have a PC. You can use the CLI to create one, but it’s quite a bit of work.

  2. if you don’t have a hub and you only have a mobile device, or you just want an easier method than number three, a community member has created a webpage interface to the new cloud API, which will let you create a virtual device.

SmartThings API Browser+ ... Now Available to All

  1. or if you don’t want to use a virtual device at all, you can get a power strip that works with SmartThings, and use one of its sockets as a virtual proxy. That doesn’t have all the same features that a virtual device has, but certainly if you just want to use it as an on/off precondition it would work.

There are probably some additional methods, but that should give you a few choices. :sunglasses:

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