Any way to send events from EG to SmartThings?

[therealbiglou]

I've got this smart app working to send events from SmartThings to Eventghost: https://community.smartthings.com/t/sen ... host/22473

What I would like to do, however, is also send events from EventGhost to SmartThings. The reason is that sometimes things get out of sync. I can use SmartThings to turn on/off my TV, but if I use another method to turn it on/off, it doesn't update the state in SmartThings. Because of this, the controls don't always work.

Is there a way to update SmartThings based on actions in EventGhost?

[yokel22]

Maybe i'm misunderstanding what your wanting. But can't you use the REST api here? http://docs.smartthings.com/en/latest/s ... part2.html. I've not used smartthings but that seems pretty odd that it wouldn't update the status of a device when it detects a device change. Or is it that it's just not being forwarded through the smartApp?

[therealbiglou]

The smart app is one way only. It only sends things to EventGhost, but it doesn't receive anything back.

[yokel22]

Yes, but you could use the API i linked to to send info to the smartthings hub. It would be a bit more complex than most REST api's as they are using a token based system & you would need to install the Oauth2 module as a dependancy. I can try & explain further, if you decide it's worth your time to persue it.

[krambriw]

Even simpler, use MQTT.

See the link below how to setup and link a MQTT broker to SmartThings. Then use the MQTT Client in EG to get a possible 2-way communication EG <-> SmartThings

https://home-assistant.io/blog/2016/02/ ... Assistant/