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SmartThings continues to spend money on the Developer Center with instruments for companions corresponding to Test Suite, Product Cloning, and Certification by Similarity to simplify product integration and certification for a single product or a complete portfolio. After acquiring Works with SmartThings (WWST) certification, Analytics helps our companions acquire precious insights about how customers work together with their merchandise.

With the objective of creating integration simple for companions, SmartThings added one other software within the integration course of known as the Device Profile Builder, permitting companions to specify a tool’s capabilities and the way it interacts inside the SmartThings ecosystem.

“We’ve heard from builders that they needed a better approach to construct their gadgets with SmartThings. A software with an intuitive user-friendly interface that may work for any machine” says Nate Porras, Senior Product Supervisor at SmartThings. “We really feel like we completed that with Gadget Profile Builder.”

SmartThings presently provides Gadget Profile Builder for Cloud integrations and shortly for Direct Linked and Cellular Linked integrations.

“Gadget Profile Builder is properly designed and simple to make use of.  You’ll be able to create a Gadget Profile effortlessly.  We’re all the time looking for the only approach to combine, and Gadget Profile Builder is a key software in that course of.”

Anthony Richardson, QA Engineer at August Dwelling

Learn on to find out about Gadget Profile Builder and easy methods to get began.  

Gadget Profile Builder

SmartThings Gadget Profile Builder is a web-based software that assists builders with creating Gadget Profiles, which outline a tool and its options on the SmartThings platform via Capabilities. It accommodates the Parts – which is a bunch of SmartThings Capabilities – and metadata (ID, identify, possession, and extra) of a tool, defining how a tool on the SmartThings platform behaves. For instance, with a lightweight, the element accommodates 4 frequent Capabilities for lights together with Swap, Swap Degree, Coloration Management, and Coloration Temperature.

Use Gadget Profile Builder to:

• Outline the way you need your merchandise to look to customers within the SmartThings app
• Set SmartThings Capabilities for every of your merchandise

 Get Began

Find out how to use the SmartThings Gadget Profile Builder:

1. Go to the Merchandise part within the SmartThings Certification Console the place you may add a brand new product or edit an current one.Below Integration Particulars / Gadget Capabilities, click on Create a profile right here. Or right here is the direct hyperlink to the Device Profile Builder.
2. Click on the button Add new Gadget Profile and enter a novel identify. 
3. Add your Capabilities and Parts. You can too use product class particular templates to make the method sooner.
4. Use the Dashboard View to set the way you need your product’s icon, motion, and state to look within the SmartThings App. 
5. Click on Create Profile. After creating, you’ll have choices to View, Publish, Edit, Clone, Obtain File, Add file, and Delete beneath the Actions menu.
6. Publish your Gadget Profile and use it to complete creating your product. Then submit your product to acquire the Works with SmartThings (WWST) certification.

You’ll be able to re-use a tool profile for related merchandise or create as many variations as you want on your portfolio of merchandise.

Use Gadget Profile Builder when Making a Product

Under is the Create Product part within the Certification Console.

On this part, you may present the product particulars exhibited to customers throughout the SmartThings ecosystem.  A few of these embrace your product identify, product picture, and product description to assist customers determine your product. Plus you may add buy hyperlink URLs so customers can purchase your product.  

When making a product within the Certification Console, you should use Gadget Profile Builder so as to add your machine profiles. Below Integration Particulars / Gadget Capabilities, click on Create a profile right here or Edit an current profile. 

After ending Including a Product within the Certification Console, you may Take a look at it Utilizing Test Suite, after which go on to Submit it for Works with SmartThings Certification (WWST).

Listed here are photographs from the Gadget Profile Builder. We’ll use the Capabilities on your gadgets as a part of the Works with SmartThings certification. 

Templates

Get began sooner with Templates. Templates are prebuilt units of required and prompt Capabilities for frequent product sorts that aid you create your machine profile effortlessly. Merely choose a product sort and apply it to your element.

Obtain / Add File

Wish to combine your merchandise with SmartThings? Go to our Developer Center to get began and entry Device Profile Builder.