User login API in SmartThings API

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Hi, everyone

I’m wondering if SmartThings API have any plan to support a API which can do login to get tokens like PAT or the API already exist.

I could see APIs LOCATIONS, AUTOMATIONS, DEVICES but I couldn’t see APIs to login to get temporal credential like access token, refresh token.

I’m knowing that only a way to access LOCATIONS, AUTOMATIONS, DEVICES is to call them with PAT which PAT can be generated by user’s manual action via webpage.

I’m designing the “cloud to cloud integration”, if my cloud and app wants to control customer’s SmartThings device then I have to know their PAT. I think the way I only know is hard to get a token as input to our platform after customer’s manually action, so I’d like to know their existence or non existence.

Control flows I want
My app → My cloud → SmartThings cloud → SmartThings device
My app → SmartThings cloud → SmartThings device

Thanks in advance
Best regards,
Eddy

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Yes, currently, the only way is using a PAT.
The OAuth integration allows you to generate dynamic Access Tokens but you must belong to an Organization to have access to it. Also, it isn’t currently available for new requests as the engineering team is working on some improvements.

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Thanks for your answer, @nayelyz

I will use PAT till before the engineering team provide it.

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Hello, im designing something similar to what he was doing its been a good bit of time since this was wrote but has there been any updates?

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Hi, @Iosync
It’s important to continue with your case here to understand better what you’re trying to do and provide the correct guidance.
About your question, currently, you can create API access apps through the API like in this example: GitHub - SmartThingsCommunity/api-app-subscription-example-js: Example API Access SmartApp that shows the state and allows control of devices

BUT it has a limit of 500 installations, and one is counted for every location a user authorizes access to, so, it can be less than 500 users who can use your app. To request the incrementation of this number, you need to fill up the form mentioned here: OAuth Integrations | Developer Documentation | SmartThings

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Hi, We are trying to use this smart app for production and a open source api is what i think i would need to enable my residents to add their personal devices from my app without opening smartthings, into their personal location. Is this something a API can do?