Hey, I'm having trouble wrapping my head around driver development for Hubitat. I'm no stranger to groovy, though mostly use it in the world of Jenkins, and I'm at least a passable programmer, but I'm struggling to find reasonable documentation or clear examples of how to do basically anything. (seriously, there's more ToDo than actual documentation here: Zwave Object - Hubitat Documentation)
I got an Everspring Z-Wave On/Off plug today. I can toggle it using the generic Z-wave outlet driver, but it also has power reporting which I want to monitor. I figured it would be a good place to get my feet wet with writing a driver, pretty simple device right? Well, jokes on me, I can get it reading the power feedback, but I cannot figure out for the life of me how to toggle it on/off. Can anyone point me in the direction of some documentation of how to interact with z-wave devices?
take a look at my hubitat git hub repository there are lots of example device handlers
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I'm on the exact same spot as you right now! Yesterday I found that SmartThings docs are a better source of docs than Hubitat wiki, you may take a look at this: Device Handlers — SmartThings Classic Developer Documentation
They refer to Drivers as Device Handlers and this guide helped me a lot what the hell is going on and what's the lifecycle of the Driver.
I've heard Hubitat is a bit different than ST but this is where you should take a look at our Wiki and see other drivers how they do things.
PS. Let me know if you find something interesting!
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Thanks @kahn-hubitat, looking at some of your handlers was indeed helpful.
I managed to get my driver working and released it here: [RELEASE] Everspring AN186 - On/Off Plug
It's disappointing that Hubitat is using the SmartThings documentation as such a crutch instead of decently documenting their own platform. Eventually Samsung is going to diverge ST to the point where it's not longer reasonable to use their documentation this way.
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