12 SmartThings Features That Change EVERYTHING! (Best Edge Drivers)

If you're confused about what Samsung SmartThings Edge drivers can do, then get ready for a guide to all the best Edge Drivers available for SmartThings. These SmartThings Edge Drivers will improve your smart home experience and will make Samsung SmartThings better. This is a full guide to setup SmartThings Edge Drivers that improve performance and give you new features you've never had before.

We'll do things like bring Aqara into SmartThings, get the Everything Presence One sensor working, get Tuya into SmartThings, setup Virtual Devices to help with Alexa and Google integration (the vEdge creator), complete Wake On LAN, count any event in your home, and even replace the loss of the SmartThings IDE.

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Timecodes for today's video:
00:00 - The Best SmartThings Edge Drivers
0:29 - The EP1 Presence Sensor With SmartThings
3:23 - How to Use This Video
4:03 - Setup The EP1 in SmartThings
9:20 - Configuring EP1 For Presence Detection
14:09 - Hue and SmartThings Working Better Together
16:27 - Setup SmartThings and Philips Hue
18:38 - Doing More With Hue in SmartThings
21:23 - How to Use Hue Scenes in SmartThings
25:53 - Hue Motion Sensor in SmartThings
28:50 - Get Tuya Devices Into SmartThings
30:38 - Setup Tuya Zigbee Devices With SmartThings
34:52 - A Really Useful Diagnostic Driver For Tuya Devices
37:08 - Configuring a Tuya Soil Sensor in SmartThings
42:55 - These Tuya Devices Won't Work With SmartThings
44:29 - Aqara and SmartThings Working Together
45:47 - Setup Aqara in SmartThings
53:18 - Aqara Switches in SmartThings
55:45 - A New SmartThings IDE
56:26 - Setup API Browser Plus in SmartThings
1:03:02 - SmartThings Virtual Devices Guide
1:05:25 - Setup vEdge Virtual Device Creator
1:08:08 - Virtual Devices in SmartThings With Alexa
1:13:53 - Virtual Devices in SmartThings with Google Home
1:16:24 - Count Events in SmartThings
1:17:54 - How to Setup Counter Utility in SmartThings
1:25:06 - Wake On LAN With SmartThings
1:25:58 - Setup Wake on LAN in SmartThings
1:31:33 - How to Setup your PC for Wake on LAN

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[louisarmenante]

Thank you Brian for the great video! We haven't seen this type of content from you in a while...please do more of these, they help tremendously! Although I realize they take a ton of your time to do them. But that's why we love you 😀😀

[kkoz]

I'm a newbie to Samsung ST, so this video is absolutely mind-blowing and much needed! Thank you :)

[Finns-Projects]

This is perfect. always need videos like this for my ST :) Great video as always. Thank you Brian

[TonyTran]

This is such an awesome guide to SmartThings and I just fell in love with SmartThings again!

[c]

You have obviously been working your butt off. Thanks for helping us, Brian!

[johnnybegoode]

Very well documented video as always - and well timed. 👌
Edge drivers from the community are getting better every day but the information needs getting out to people who still haven't appreciated the possibilities of the new architecture. Might even be interesting to do a second part later....

[jredanz]

Brian, thank you for all your work. I truly appreciate your videos that very so often, gives great info on ST and new ways to do things. It's like having a "SmartThings Watch Dog" It's appreciated!!

I've recently found, that the virtual switches created in ST, both Yakov's Virtual Things Edge driver and the V'edge driver you are using in the video, created unrealiable results in Alexa using them as a trigger. Strangest thing that the virtual devices are actually being found and triggered on/off in Alexa when turned on/off in ST, but the Alexa routines, used with the virtual device in Alexa, are not always triggered. Sometimes they do, sometimes they do not. It's been working perfectly until recently. So I had to use IFTTT together with "Voice Monkey" that creates triggers for Alexa as an alternative solution. I know this is not ideal, since it's cloud based, but it is realiable and works every single time. I eventually found this to be an Alexa problem and it seems to be raleted to swithes with the ability to toggle. Virtual switches with no toggle function, are working fine. Maybe this is just me, But I used an entire day to troubleshoot, to no avail.

You asked for edge drivers in your video, that makes a difference to ST: For me, just last weekend while troubleshooting the above problem, I found this: The "Web Requestor Multi v.1.2" which is also available from TAustin (clever guy): This makes any LAN device which is able to receive web requests via HTTP to get triggered. I've been using virtual buttons in ST/Alexa to control Yamaha Musccast speakers in my home for a few years now, until last week, when I found this. With this driver and the comprehensive Yamaha API documentation I've beeen able to create local triggers to all my speakers, using the Web requestor driver which in total can hold 50 request in a single shortcut. Turn on/off, volume up/down, change input, mute/unmute it all works instantly and It is truly effective with MusicCast. Just remember of course to reserve that IP-address of your speakers in your DHCP scope ;-) Maybe this will inspire to another video or give anyone reading this inspiration to do other things with the "Web Requestor".

[yufanwu]

Yes, the aqara button is way better and more reliable than IKEA button!

[lucascmesquita]

Thank you Brian! This is awesome! So much great content together. It helped me in so many ways.

[SuneKuntz]

For the Aqara temperature/humidity sensor I use an Edge driver called "Zigbee Temp Sensor and Child Thermostat Mc" from Mariano.
It enables me to view the sensor as a large card on the home screen (same size as the home monitor card). I can view the temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure at once without having to go to the sensor page. On the sensor page it gives me battery, LQI and RSSI. It is one of my favorite Edge Drivers!

[scottolgard]

Such an awesome video, definitely opens up a lot of possibilities! Now if samsung could just launch the smartthings station in Canada!

[vinhennessy]

In an future episode, would you explain the diffrence between a Scene and a Routine, and instance when to use them. Thanks in advance.

[mts]

Hello and thank for the amazing work throughout the years! When I click on the link for the drivers it says that's forbidden! Do know how to fix it?

[fatjonseatingadventures]

thank you. Helped me understand Edge, and Aqara.

[lanpengwoo]

Thanks for the video. Very instructional and simple to follow for a non-tech person like me. Thanks to your video, I was able to add the Aqara Vibration Sensor which I couldnt find the right driver for. I bought 2 Aqara remote buttons model No. WXKG20LM and the driver from Andrew doesnt work. What can i do to get them to work? Pls advise.

[OntologicalQuandry]

I have beet transitioning all my devices over to Edge drivers on SmartThings and have had - mostly - positive results.
A copule of GLEDOPTO LED devices didn't play well but Mariano was exceptionally helpful on the SmartThings community and explained what was going wrong (mixture of outdated driver and misunderstanding of function on my part).
I was rather annoyed (well, maybe that's too strong a word) that SmartThings ddin't have a default Virtual Device as an Edge driver. I have my TV plugged in through a ZEN25 outlet that monitors power draw. I can set a virtual device to turn on and off based on the power draw from the telly (it's an OLED so I can say it's turned off even if it's going through a panel refresh after using it). I have another virtual switch tripped by other sensors (light levels and time) to determine whether my living roon lights need to be on or not. Using that virtual switch, I can combine the telly virtual switch to determine which lights to turn on and off to illuminate the room but not cause screen glare.
I am grateful that private developers created such high quality virtual alternates, but the whole enrolling in and selecting of drivers is not something average users will do and is a significant reason not to use SmartThings just now. This is a huge opportunity for Google, Amazon and Apple (if they could ever get their stuff working even half as well).
My main annoyance is that my old OSRAM 73743 Zigbee button is not properly supported like it was with an old DTH. I don't really want to buy a new device but it seems there will not be a compatible driver written for that device.

I'd quite like to see you review the Tuya Presence Sensor combined with SmartThings (and other platforms), as it is actually available to buy in Canada whereas the Aqara has to be imported and the EP1 is not linked in your notes about this video.

[arelisjorgecampitrus]

Hi Brian. You really have a great page and you do great job. I have problems with my sensors connected to my Aeotec Smart Hub. It is mainly the open door sensor, sometimes they appears connected to the Hub but others they don't, even within a reasonable distance. I would like some advice on this. Thanks in advance

[wly]

30:05 I can see here you tested it in some day between March 8th and April 4th.

Starting at 47.x, SmartThings requires unit scale for temperature measurement, then I added it on April 14th.

So, the temperature measurement from your soil sensor should be working since then.

Thanks for mentioning the driver I developed to help community.

[stephennelson]

I am having an issue with linking the phillips hue bridge. Im tapping the gear icon and nothing is happening.