Use SmartThings Hub without Mobile App?

[JDRoberts]

Unfortunately, SmartThings is not a good match to what you describe. SmartThings uses open standards but is not an open platform.

See the following for suggested alternatives:

Student wireless project

I’m not sure if this is the right place for this. I am a student at the University Of Michigan. I am currently working on a project to control a device that we are building using an android app and we are thinking about trying to utilize the smart things existing hub. We will build our own android app that will communicate with our own cloud server. We would like to use the hub to receive packets over wifi and transmit packets to our own hardware using some other wireless protocol. We are wondering if the hub system can do this or if it can only be used with the existing SmartThings app and hardware. thanks!