I agree that it would be great if SmartThings provided the Tasker plugins right out of the box with their Android app or even if they included Intents that could be externally called. They provide an Android Intent that other apps on the Android phone can trigger. This is all very possible, since there are lots of apps like BeyondPod, etc., that do this right now.
I want Tasker to be able to trigger the SmartThings app to do things that I can do through the app, like switch on a light, or change the temperature.
#TASKER INTENT HOW TO#
A lot of things about SmartThings seem to involve me spending a bit of time trying to figure out how to get them going. When I have a bit of time to look into that I guess I’ll try it. And since the app doesn’t do Intents, that is the only way to do it. I know that is possible, I guess that is more direct than calling the app. This is different from calling a URL from Tasker to trigger something in SmartThings. But even if they aren’t, Tasker can call intents as long as they are documented.
Apps like BeyondPod make all this very explicit by turning the Intents into ones that are published to Tasker so that all the settings and arguments can be seen in Tasker. They can even provide “arguments” to the Intent that might be something like temperature or light level. It looks like folks are getting confused on what I am actually wanting when I say Tasker integration.
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