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By Samsung Newsroom
SmartThings continues to invest in the Developer Center with tools for partners such as Test Suite, Product Cloning, and Certification by Similarity to simplify product integration and certification for a single product or an entire portfolio. After obtaining Works with SmartThings (WWST) certification, Analytics helps our partners gain valuable insights about how users interact with their products.
With the goal of making integration easy for partners, SmartThings added another tool in the integration process called the Device Profile Builder, allowing partners to specify a device’s capabilities and how it interacts within the SmartThings ecosystem.
“We’ve heard from developers that they wanted an easier way to build their devices with SmartThings. A tool with an intuitive user-friendly interface that would work for any device,” says Nate Porras, Senior Product Manager at SmartThings. “We feel like we accomplished that with Device Profile Builder.”
SmartThings currently offers Device Profile Builder for Cloud integrations and soon for Direct Connected and Mobile Connected integrations.
Read on to learn about Device Profile Builder and how to get started.
Device Profile Builder
SmartThings Device Profile Builder is a web-based tool that assists developers with creating Device Profiles, which define a device and its features on the SmartThings platform through Capabilities. It contains the Components—which is a group of SmartThings Capabilities—and metadata (ID, name, ownership, and more) of a device, defining how a device on the SmartThings platform behaves. For example, with a light, the component contains four common Capabilities for lights including Switch, Switch Level, Color Control, and Color Temperature.
Use Device Profile Builder to:
Define how you want your products to look to users in the SmartThings app
Set SmartThings Capabilities for each of your products
Get Started
How to use the SmartThings Device Profile Builder:
Visit the Products section in the SmartThings Certification Console where you can add a new product or edit an existing one. Under Integration Details / Device Capabilities, click Create a profile here. Or here is the direct link to the Device Profile Builder. Click the button Add new Device Profile and enter a unique name. Add your Capabilities and Components. You can also use product category specific templates to make the process faster. Use the Dashboard View to set how you want your product's icon, action, and state to look in the SmartThings App. Click Create Profile. After creating, you will have options to View, Publish, Edit, Clone, Download File, Upload file, and Delete under the Actions menu. Publish your Device Profile and use it to finish creating your product. Then submit your product to obtain the Works with SmartThings (WWST) certification. You can re-use a device profile for similar products or create as many variations as you need for your portfolio of products.
Use Device Profile Builder when Creating a Product
Below is the Create Product section in the Certification Console.
In this section, you can provide the product details displayed to users across the SmartThings ecosystem. Some of these include your product name, product image, and product description to help users identify your product. Plus you can add purchase link URLs so users can buy your product.
When creating a product in the Certification Console, you can use Device Profile Builder to add your device profiles. Under Integration Details / Device Capabilities, click Create a profile here or Edit an existing profile.
After finishing adding a product in the Certification Console, you can test it using Test Suite, and then go on to submit it for Works with SmartThings Certification (WWST).
Here are images from the Device Profile Builder. We’ll use the Capabilities for your devices as part of the Works with SmartThings certification.
Templates
Get started faster with Templates. Templates are prebuilt sets of required and suggested Capabilities for common product types that help you create your device profile effortlessly. Simply select a product type and apply it to your component.
Download / Upload File
For even more customization, you can use the Download / Upload File functions to modify the JSON file. If you have a more complex scenario you want to configure, this functionality gives visibility into all the fields. For example, this can be useful for certain devices that have specific preference thresholds or operating limits, which can be configured for normal or alarm states. There is also an ability for more granular control of what your device looks like in the SmartThings app.
Want to integrate your products with SmartThings? Visit our Developer Center to get started and access Device Profile Builder.
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By TheZakinator
Hello, i am trying to develop a native application on Gear S3 which is part of a bluetooth mesh network (not just a proxy).
Gear S3 has a bluetooth version which is compatible with bluetooth mesh and so I assumed it would be possible.
However, i have not found any Tizen documentation or examples for it.
Is it possible and if so, where can i start?
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By Divya
I am trying to use the Remote Web Inspector tool for my Tizen app running remotely on my Samsung TV, Reading through forums Its coming into knowledge that the Tizen RWI framework does not support or work on newer versions of chrome. The last working chrome version with the RWI is V79 or lower, considering the chrome version being three years old and being open to all security vulnerabilities, Is there a way that we can use the RWI compatible with newer web versions? Or is there any other possible way to use inspect my Tizen App running on the Samsung TV.
I hope its clear and understable.
Thanks!
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By Alex
Samsung was one of the first major smartphone makers to jump on the smartwatch ship, and, unsurprisingly, its first smartwatch didn’t use Google’s nascent Android Wear back then. It struck off on its own with a customized version of Android running inside the Samsung Galaxy Gear. It has come full circle and has returned to Android again, this time with Wear OS running on the upcoming Galaxy Watch 4 series. Surprisingly, there might still be some owners of the Galaxy Gear around, and Samsung is now urging them to switch to its Tizen OS if they want access to some smartwatch apps.
The Galaxy Gear launched way back in 2013 and was the only one of its kind, so it’s rather surprising to hear that Samsung still has the smartwatch and its users in mind eight years after. Even more surprising is that Samsung was actually still running a version of its app store specifically for that Android-based OS after all this time. Samsung is shutting that down next month, however, but it hasn’t abandoned owners of the smartwatch just yet (another surprise).
Samsung actually gave Galaxy Gear owners a way forward back in 2014 when it was clear that it wasn’t going to stick to its own Android smartwatch OS. Back then, it offered an update to its new Tizen-based wearable platform, the very same OS that would take Samsung’s smartwatches to relative success for a couple of years. Apparently, not everyone took the opportunity back then, but Samsung is now pretty much forcing their hand.
An update to the Samsung Galaxy Store notifies owners of the smartwatch that it will be shutting down the Galaxy Store for Galaxy Gear devices on August 5, 2021. While the smartwatch will continue to function, users won’t be able to install or reinstall apps after that date. They can upgrade to Tizen moving forward if they want access to apps, but it’s a one-way street and there’s no turning back. Moreover, not all Galaxy Gear apps will be available on Tizen, but there might be similar ones by now.
It is rather impressive that Samsung has apparently managed to support a relatively obscure 2013 smartwatch for this long. Unfortunately, the same story can’t be said for more recent Tizen-based smartwatches that may be blocked from upgrading to the new Samsung-branded Wear OS. Whether that’s because of hardware requirements or some arbitrary policy from Google remains a mystery.
Source: https://www.slashgear.com/galaxy-gear-owners-must-upgrade-to-tizen-or-lose-galaxy-store-access-05681014/
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By Samsung Newsroom
Start Date Oct 15, 2020
Location Online
It's a pleasure to announce that the inaugural get together of the Bluetooth® Developer Meetup will take place on October 15th 2020. Everyone is welcome to this on-line event (no registration required).
Attendees will enjoy talks from a range of experienced Bluetooth developers from Google, Samsung, Foundries.IO and Bluetooth SIG. Together, they will share their knowledge and tell their stories of working with everybody's favourite low power wireless communication technology.
Watch this page, the @BluetoothSIG Twitter account and accounts of speakers such as @bluetooth_mdw for updates. The URL for joining the event will be published here in due course.
More information here
Schedule
Date: 15th October 2020.
London : 17:30 - 20:00 UK time (UTC+1)
Texas : 11:30 - 14:00 CDT (UTC-5)
San Francisco : 09:30 - 12:00 (UTC - 7)
Agenda
Each talk will be approximately 30 minutes in length and include time for Q&A via a text-based system.
Lessons Learned with using Bluetooth Low Energy in Wearables
Speaker: Jacky Cheung, Google
The cost of integrating Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) into consumer electronics has dropped significantly over the years. With all the promising features introduced in Bluetooth 5.X, Bluetooth LE has become the de-facto connectivity solution for wearables.
This talk will present lessons learned with using Bluetooth Low Energy in wearable projects. It highlights some of the key design considerations and offers some practical tips to balance between speed and power consumption, which are particularly important for wearable devices.
Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) OTA: or how I learned to stop worrying about spiders, snakes, hornets while building IoT devices on the Tech Farm
Speakers: Thea and Marc Aldrich, Foundries IO
Building and deploying embedded devices in the real world isn’t as glamorous as the corporate demos would lead you to believe. A few years ago we set out to build a simple cow tracking and happiness device. Since then things have escalated. And what have we learned? It gets hot, it rains, there is a whole lot of walking and, to be honest, the cows don't ever seem to fully appreciate the effort. Then there are the spiders, snakes and hornets. We all know this story ends in pain. But does it?
In this presentation we’ll take you through the intensely scientific process of designing, building and deploying the latest version of our low cost, wirelessly connected farm automation and cow tracking system running Foundries.io’s Linux microPlatform (LmP) and Zephyr OS. All devices are now updateable over-the-air thanks to FoundriesFactory’s OTA functionality and OTA-DFU updates over Bluetooth LE from the Nordic NRF52840 based Reel Boards. No animals - other than humans - were harmed in the course of this project.
The Love story between the Web and Bluetooth
Speaker: Kevin Picchi, Samsung
Kevin Picchi is a Software Engineer and Developer advocate at Samsung Internet, based in London.
He’s passionate about web technologies, emerging tech, and enjoy sharing his knowledge.
Contact him over LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kevinpicchi
The Web has been around before I was even born, since its creation the Web has grown bigger, always evolves and gets blessed with new capabilities. The capability that brings me here today is Web Bluetooth.
Just imagine controlling a drone through a web page without even having to download a native app, not having to update it, a quick refresh of the page and done.
Well this is possible since the integration a few years since the integration of Web Bluetooth in most browsers.
In this talk we are going to take a look how the relationship between Web and Bluetooth work. How it can make a difference and how to setup a basic communication between a web page and a Bluetooth device.
Advanced Bluetooth Technology - Under the APIs
Speaker: Martin Woolley, Bluetooth SIG
Bluetooth technology has changed enormously since its initial release about twenty years ago. Communication can now take place over distances in excess of a kilometre. It’s twice as fast as it used to be and connectionless communication through broadcasting data to an unlimited number of receivers has become extremely versatile and powerful. Oh and did you know, you can also create secure networks of tens of thousands of smart devices using Bluetooth technology?
All of these advanced capabilities are there for developers to exploit. By examining subjects like data rates, range and reliability, this talk will provide a guided tour of the most interesting and advanced aspects of Bluetooth technology and how they work, under the APIs.
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