Hello, all. I have a bit simpler way to help the Wemo devices to work consistently all within SmartThings, without SharpTools, and without the separate Wemo App. It is much simpler than all of my text below. I’d love to make a video, but not this week. Please read further.
The one-time setup: The back-end work is done via IFTTT (which installs itself into your SmartThings list of apps), and you simply create a virtual device on/off switch(s) to represent each of your WeMo things. By granting IFTTT access to your virtual switch(s) and Wemo physical things, your Wemo physical switches will now work mainly because “Wemo was made to work with IFTTT,” says SmartThings support to me. See below for how to create a virtual on/off device.
Now, you can just as easily control your Wemo things all within SmartThings via the virtual on/off button(s). (It is just a normal switch, regardless that it is virtual). Note: I recommend to keep your original Wemo things added in SmartThings in addition to these new virtual on/off buttons. I’ll explain later.
If you’ve never dealt with IFTTT, it is pretty intuitive; just follow the instructions after creating an account, and proceed to create your custom recipes. Each recipe will consist of IF the SmartThings virtual on/off button is turned on, THEN turn on the Wemo thing. You will have to have a separate recipe to turn it off since there currently is not any toggle available within IFTTT’s channel for SmartThings. (That’s not such a big deal. Continue reading.)
How to create virtual switches, thanks to @chuckles : Virtual Switch to turn on/off Multiple Lights Based on IFTTT Trigger Event?
I recommend using a prefix letter “v” for the name of the virtual on/off button for better identification, and to avoid confusion later. i.e. vFan or vFloorLamp
As I first said, this all is WAY simpler than it sounds, and is nice and clean within SmartThings as a normal thing. Just to note, because you’re now using IFTTT (another cloud service), the local processing of the new v2 hub will not apply here. That means if your internet access stops or if the SmartThings cloud is interrupted, then your WeMo switch won’t work. In that event, you still can use the WeMo app on your phone or tablet to control your WeMo devices via your wireless network.
Please note: your original WeMo thing(s) in the WeMo Connect SmartThings Labs app may become out of sync by showing ON when it is actually OFF, and vice versa. It may be best to just remove the WeMo Connect SmartThings Labs app and its WeMo things since it is no longer needed with this configuration.