Two-Way Smartthings Integration

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Hi Guys,

Quick question, I’ve setup Smartthings integration before I had anything really in Home-Assistant. I’ve started to migrate devices over and it appears to be one-way (Smartthings devices on Home-Assistant) is this normal?

I’ve seen a couple of threads but they appear old as they relate to the MQTT Broker and I’ve used the native intergration.

Also, I removed a device from Smartthings and it still appears in Home-Assistant.

It just feels like something is broken…

Thanks,

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Anyone? Am I missing something

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The integration will only pull SmartThings devices into Home Assistant. I don’t believe there is a way to pull Home Assistant devices into SmartThings.

As for the device removal, you will have to remove the device in Home Assistant after removing it in SmartThings.

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Thanks :frowning: I thinking of a workaround using fake switches on smartthings and automations to keep them in sync… not sure how viable that is.

Also thanks for the tip on the devices, I noticed they where in the entities area as recovery and deleted them. I also noticed I can remove entitlement to remove active devices from smartthings in home assistant. nice

Edit: Apparently the SmartThings MQTT Bridge had two way communication. Is this deprecated now?

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I might be misunderstanding your question or possibly phrased my answer poorly.

There is two way communication in that Home Assistant can retrieve devices from SmartThings and also control your SmartThings devices. However, there is not a way to pull entities from Home Assistant into SmartThings (eg. A switch that only exists in Home Assistant will not be visible or usable from SmartThings)

The MQTT bridge has the same limitation as it’s receiving information from SmartThings and pushing it to Home Assistant and can control existing SmartThings devices. There is no way I know of to have SmartThings see entities that only exist in Home Assistant.

I actually have a few automation using virtual switches like you mentioned to control Home Assistant entities from SmartThings (eg. A virtual switch that Home Assistant reacts to and changes my AC fan mode)

No matter what, they’re going to end up being kind of janky workarounds. I just haven’t had the time or motivation to fully move away from SmartThings since I have so many devices.

Let me know if you have any more questions about the interaction between the two. I’ve had them tied together for a couple years and have learned to get pretty creative when I hit a roadblock lol.

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Thanks ckelley28, that answers my question perfectly. I was in-fact referring to two-way devices and your added details that MQTT bridge does the same saves me some time and hassle.

I did find an alternative solution that hasn’t been perfect but will do for this need. That’s in Emulated Hue and Harmony.

Thanks,

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Happy to help and actually you mentioning emulated hue just caused me to have a “duh” moment. I just finally got around to setting it up a couple days ago for Alexa control. It didn’t even occur to me to use it to tie into SmartThings too. Thanks!