smartthings-cli

Russ

This works in Windows, Mac, Linux, Raspberry Pi. You can list and control your SmartThings devices with the Samsung SmartThings cli (command line interface) tool.

https://github.com/SmartThingsCommunity/smartthings-cli#smartthings-devicescommands-id-command

smartthings.exe devices
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 #   Label                        Name                            Type   Device Id
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 1   Front Door                   base-contact                    ZWAVE  5bebe423-f899-486e-9f62-8c63707a9b6c
 2   Front Lights                 switch1                         DTH    fb132245-8bd0-478d-be4b-ca311ae64656
 3   Home Hub                     SmartThings v2 Hub              HUB    9079eb4d-10b4-435d-9a05-b2b9629cb50a
 4   Motion Sensor                Motion Sensor                   DTH    b8a3a1ab-daac-44fb-a6c9-53bac4382df9
 5   Notepad                      Notepad                         DTH    a83bbda3-d461-44ae-948a-7d8fd13b5799
 6   Samsung 7 Series (40)        [TV] Samsung 7 Series (40)      OCF    01253b2b-71ed-4b74-b7dd-74dd94522d96
 7   THERMOSTAT                   Honeywell TCC 6000 Thermostat   VIPER  86b567ac-0da3-4257-9b03-47a3cfc3b469
 8   Kitchen Switch               Z-Wave Switch                   DTH    e2237460-e3fa-4bf5-8a24-3e6d64f89352

To turn on my Kitchen z-wave switch, I can run a command like this:

smartthings.exe devices:commands e2237460-e3fa-4bf5-8a24-3e6d64f89352 switch:on

SmartThings devices can be controlled with the SmartThings app of course, but this might be useful in scripts - whether you run them remotely via TRIGGERcmd or not.

Toivo Sokka

This is a very powerful tool. Just started making my own automations with it in a Linux environment (Raspberry Pi).

I am putting my commands in bash scripts and bashing them in with other tools.

However some commands, like

./smarthings devices

will only run manually from the command line and will not work with sudo. In case I run it as root with sudo I get a "logging in..." message and it's just stuck there before i hit cntr-c. Also user level cron will not run this command.

While

sudo ./smartthings --version

executes with no problem and can be executed in crontab also.

I think it is a problem with permissions, but i cannot figure it out.
Any help would be much appreciated!

Russ

@Toivo-Sokka, I wonder if it's the path to the smart things cli is wrong in those contexts because you're using ./

Please try using the full path to the executable in your commands like this:

/usr/local/bin/smartthings --version

Toivo Sokka

@Russ The problem was not the paths. It turned out that smartthings-cli wanted a fresh login by root.
I tried logging in to GUI with root, but was unable to initiate the login prcess that way.
But typing --token <uuid> after each command did the trick!
(<uuid> being the token from https://account.smartthings.com/tokens)

Cron and other services that start at boot are still unable to run the commands.
Now I get "Error: did not get any data from stdin".

I bypassed the problem by running a python script manually. This script stays open and executes the smartthings commands as needed. The downside is that if the power goes out and RasPi reboots the script does not run automatically.