What is DTH?

dan8 · February 12, 2021, 9:29am

Nothing is more infuriating than to be reading something with a new acronym that I can't find the definition for. Tonight I was reading about SimpliSafe in relation to Hubitat, and several of the comments said things like: "I was using the DTH with....." or SimpliSafe DTH. I have no context for DTH?

I Googled it, and came up with "Direct to Home" in relation to Satellite TV in India, but I don't think that's right.

Reminds me of when I worked for an Insurance Company in the '80s, IMS Database programmers would talk about BPE, APPC, and DBRC, etc., and we non-IMS folks would sum it up as "tweedle dees and bumblebees."

bobbles · February 12, 2021, 9:37am

Probably Device Type Handler. (SmartThings description).
If it is, it is referring to the 'Type' the 'device' in question is using.
If you look at the device on the UI you will see the TYPE field.

nkyspike · February 12, 2021, 9:38am

Doing a quick search, it might stand for "Device Type Handler".

dan8 · February 12, 2021, 9:41am

I searched all over and couldn't find that anywhere.

Thank you very much.

aaiyar · February 12, 2021, 9:45am

FYI, the Hubitat equivalent of a SmartThings device type handler is a driver.

Many DTHs can be used as drivers with minimal modification.

djgutheinz · February 12, 2021, 5:49pm

Try being a military contractor. Anything more that three words is made into an acronym. I think they want to exclude the outsiders.

TomG · February 13, 2021, 1:24am

I am a member of AAAAA

American Association Against Acronym Abuse

wayne.pirtle · February 13, 2021, 5:28am

I like it!

marktheknife · February 13, 2021, 12:11pm

This. Hubitat doesn’t use device handlers or device type handlers, it uses drivers.

But many users came from smartthings, and old habits die hard.

TomG · February 13, 2021, 10:07pm

When I first migrated from ST to HE, every time a driver was referred to on the forums, I immediately thought of drivers for PCs, like video card driver, sound driver, etc. These type of drivers are the interface between the hardware and the software, and identify the device specifically. This is not unlike the drivers for HE. They also are the interface between the device and the hub and identify it precisely. ST used DTH to be different.