


MAC address must be all uppercase with no columns. in Device Handler settings you have to input Arduino IP address, Port as well as MAC address.You can cut that part out.Īlso I didn’t want plain REST APIs to open my garage and was experimenting with SHA256 encrypted password and it turned out pretty good. I also attached temperature sensor to Arduino to know temperature in the garage. Works perfectly for me for many months now.Ĭan detect if Arduino is offline - Will show Unknown state in ST. You have your device send to the IFTTT maker channel as the “if” in an IFTTT recipe and use turning on the virtual switch in the smartthings channel as the “that.” Set up a separate recipe for the off. So now you’ve got a virtual switch and you want to create bidirectional communication.įor anything complicated, see the developer docs at the link at the top right of this page.įor just a simple on/off, you can use the free IFTTT maker channel as a “man in the middle.” vEdge Creator: a virtual device generator for end users Note also that while groovy virtual devices could be used without a SmartThings hub, Edge drivers will require one. Since edge drivers themselves are still in Beta, so is this code, but it’s worth following. One community member has written a new virtual switch creator Edge Driver for the new platform called VEdge Creator. Since groovy will be going away soon, so will groovy virtual switches.
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Maybe even two FAQs, one for why you would want one with use case examples and one step by step how to for creating one in ST. Need a FAQ for the simplest version of this: a virtual on/off switch.
