I would like to get some ideas on how the community is using Virtual Devices with ST and any third-party devices (Sonos, Alexa, G Home) or why you use them with officially supported devices. Hopefully this will help other think of uses they wouldn’t have figured out without this community.

I use them quite a bit. In no particular order: What is a virtual device? First, for those who stumble on this thread and have no idea what we’re talking about, smartthings allows you to create a “virtual” Device of several different kinds. This doesn’t exist in the real world, but smart things w…

I created a virtual switch and that I call couch potato. It turns my TV on the history channel, activates a lifx scene with my living room lights and turns the lightify strip on the back of my tv a dark red at 30% brightness. I just "Alexa, turn on couch potato. " All done with CoRE of course @ad…

How does the virtual turn on the channel? Are you using a harmony Smart Hub? Are you using IFTTT for non-supposed things?

[quote=“JDRoberts, post:2, topic:69598, full:true”] Here’s the FAQ on creating a virtual device [image] FAQ: Creating a virtual Groovy Device [OBSOLETE] Wiki Need a FAQ for the simplest version of this: a virtual on/off switch. Maybe even two FAQs, one for why you would …

I just tried it, It worked fine for me. Could be a shard problem, see post 46 and 47 in that thread [image] FAQ: Creating a virtual Groovy Device [OBSOLETE] Wiki Hi, tried creating a virtual switch but when I click on the location or hub drop down , it’s empty and this d…

Another thing to learn. lol. I am on the right shard. anyway it let me create it. I do think Label is required as that was the difference between my attempts.

Yes I am using using my harmony hub which has been linked to smarttings.

How to make virtual switch in sync with other physical switch. for example i created “living room” virtual switch with OFF state and assigned all the lights into it. If my family member turn ON ALL the lights in the living room by physical switch, i need virtual switch “living room” to sync with the…

I am trying to improve the automation of my garage door. I have spotty cell signal near the house so cellphone presence sometime is slow to activate and open my garage door. My thought is to create a second location with a geofence defined to cover the entrance to my neighborhood that would trigge…

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BBoy486 December 24, 2016, 9:59pm 5

[quote=“JDRoberts, post:2, topic:69598, full:true”]

Here’s the FAQ on creating a virtual device

Are you sure this is still accurate?
I tried it and got the following error

Access Denied
We’re sorry, but you are not authorized to perform the requested operation.

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