Tutorial for Newbies

Seraphim

Hello all together, 

I hope this post is right here, otherwise feel free to hand it over to another category.

Is there any kind of tutorial, how to create apps for homey? Something like a "hello world" tutorial for someone who in principal knows how programming works but needs to understand how this works with or for homey? Something like a "I show you what you have to do"? The basics how to start. 

And yes, I read the Apps & API Documentation, but I belong to the people, that need to get shown how to do.

Best Regards
Andreas

MrDutchfighter

Hi Andreas, as far as I know There is Not a real tutorial. But if you look in the store you will find 95% of the time a link to Github repository. There you can find exactly how those apps are build and get a lot of examples. From Zwave to Internet connected apps

Good luck!

GeurtDijker

The new getting started his here for the sdk2:
https://apps.developer.athom.com/tutorial-Getting Started.html

Imho there was a somewhat more complete getting started in the v1 documentation, you can still read here but bear in mind this is phased out and sdk2 should be used from the next stable release.
https://apps.developer.athom.com/v1/library.1.html

This shoul be enough to make your first hello world on Homey!

TedTolboom

And perhaps some example apps based on SDK2 as shared by Athom:

https://github.com/athombv/com.nest/tree/beta/

https://github.com/athombv/com.milight/tree/refactor-apps-sdk-v2

https://github.com/athombv/nl.eneco.toon/tree/apps-sdk-v2-rewrite

https://github.com/athombv/com.osram.lightify.zigbee

https://github.com/WoutervdBrink/Homey-nl.kanikeenkortebroekaan

in the meantime, several other developers will be releasing their updates apps based on SDK2. 
In the App Store, there are always the links mentioned towards the github repository... so more examples will be available there...

jorden

The https://github.com/WoutervdBrink/Homey-nl.kanikeenkortebroekaan is a relatively easy to understand app. I like that one as an example (haven't had time to dive in deep yet)

TedTolboom

Zigbee apps can be found quite commonly... see links above

I'm currently working on the first SDK2 + meshdriver (common for Z-wave and Zigbee) app: 
https://github.com/TedTolboom/com.hank-tech

I have to say, building an SDK2 + new meshdriver (instead of old Z-wave driver) app is becoming quite easy

the_brain

Currently I'm working on a  sdk2 app for Roon support. Roon is a music library app connected to Tidal. And now I can catch the current song/coverart in Homey. Are mute/unmute a Roon output. (https://github.com/mebrein/node-homey-roon). Here is a crosspost to the Roon forum (https://community.roonlabs.com/t/roon-extension-athom-homey/29943).

[Deleted User]

Maybe, knowing we have so many moderators, we can reorginise the main topics such as Announcements, Devices, Apps, ..., Archive and introduce a How To topic (there are already How To's on site). That can be a starting point together with the Athom https://www.athom.com/en/support/ .

Bram

@hnijveen what would be best to put in this "topic"? Would it be for new users of Homey or new developers?

[Deleted User]

All [HOW TO], How to, How To, [How to] post such as: https://forum.athom.com/discussion/2900/how-to-a-heterogeneous-smart-home-with-ikea-skeninge-rail-system, https://forum.athom.com/discussion/1448/how-to-cli-install-method, https://forum.athom.com/discussion/3664/how-to-use-nfc-tags-with-homey-main-discussion-topic and more.

Floodnl

Hi serraphim,

Indeed no newbie manual but we try in the forum to help ppl. Each time i have an question and received an answer i make an step by step manual for the non technical ppl like https://forum.athom.com/discussion/3013/light-flows-triggering-only-after-the-sun-is-down

So i would suggest search the forum and ask  

MrDutchfighter

I also once made this FAQ topic: https://forum.athom.com/discussion/2128/forum-suggestion-faq-topic
It's a bit mixed: FAQ regarding (starting) developing for Homey, and FAQ start using Homey.