Where do i go now?

[h0ckeysk8er (Bruce Pinsky)]

@JDRoberts

3. if you don’t want to use a third-party product and you’re OK with a fairly steep learning curve, you might be able to do it with the official rules API. The “ get started” process for that is pretty complicated. You will have to have a PC, there’s no webpage interface in the official features. You write your code on the PC and then upload it to the “rules API” in the cloud using the CLI (command line interface). To be honest, I don’t know much more about it than that, but there’s a whole section in the forum where you can ask.

Rules API - SmartThings Community

The API Browser from @TAustin makes using the Rules API a tad less onerous. You can define your rules using a JSON file and can upload (and manage) it from the web browser interface.

SmartThings API Browser+ ... Now Available to All

NOTICE!!: SmartThings has now released its own equivalent of this app here, so you may prefer to use that instead. I have a browser-based web app that provides a point-and-click way to explore most of the SmartThings API. For the non-technical, this gives you access to an important SmartThings resource without having to learn tools like Postman, curl, or the CLI. You don’t even need a computer: a tablet or even smartphone can be used. For the more technically inclined, it provides much faster and more convenient access to those commonly-accessed CLI commands. Although I originally thought of it as a portal for the non-technical, I’ve actually found it quite useful to use during my own development activities. This is not intended as a replacement or ‘competitor’ to the CLI, mysmart…