Device Templates

Introduction

Device Templates in SinricPro allows you to make your own device type by draging and droping capabilities that describes the features of your IoT device. They serve as blueprints for creating custom device types in the SinricPro. You can create your own device type by bundling together the following capabilities.

Capabilities
Brightness	Channel	Color
Color Temperature	Contact Sensor	Doorbell
Equalizer	Input Control	Lock
Media Control	Mode	Motion Sensor
Open Close	Percentage	Power
Power Level	Push Notification	Range
Setting	Smart Button	Start Stop
Temperature Sensor	Thermostat	Toggle
Volume

Limitations

The number of capabilities you can add is based on your total licenses. Each license allows you to add one capability to your custom device type.

When you sign up, your initial subscription includes 3 devices, allowing you to add 3 capabilities. If you purchase an additional 1-device subscription, your total increases to 4 devices, entitling you to 4 capabilities. Adding another 1-device subscription brings your total to 5 devices, allowing you to add 5 capabilities.

To expand your available capabilities, simply purchase additional device licenses.

How to make a custom device type?

Let’s create a custom device type called Washing Machine, learn how to define differet wash modes like: Hot, Warm and Cold and generate the code it and control using Amazon Alexa and Goole Home.

More Tutorials: Soil Moisture, Water Level Indicator, Water Sensor, Air Quality Sensor: MQ135, Gas Sensor

Step 1: Create Washing Machine device template

• Login to your Sinric Pro account.

• Go to Device Templates menu on left.

• Click Add Device Template button.

  • Template Name: Washing Machine

  • Description: washing machine template

  • Device Type: Other

  Note: Select the device type that best matches your hardware and your target voice assistant ecosystem. While Alexa is compatible with all device types, Google Home has limited compatibility. If you don’t see your intended device type listed, please reach out to our support team.

• Go to Capabilities tab.
• Now we must to drag and drop the capabilities supported by our washing machine.
• Drag and drop Power because we want to turn on/off our Washing Machine.
• Drag and drop Mode because we want to set the wash temperature to : Hot, Warm and Cold.

• Click on Configure button and define the three modes

• InstanceId: You can leave it as it is. We use InstanceId to uniquely identify a mode when you add multiple modes

• Locale: Choose English (US)

• Mode name: Enter Wash Temperature

• Modes: Enter following modes
  • Hot
  • Warm
  • Cold

• Click Save to save the modes

• Click Save to save the template

Step 2 : Creating Washing Machine Device

Now we are going to create a device out of the device template we created ealier.

• Go to Devices menu and click on Add.

  • Device Name: Washing Machine

  • Description: My washing machine at basement

  • Device Type: Select Washing Machine under “Your Device Templates”. This is the template we created ealier.

  • Device Access Key: Leave the default selection

  • Room: Leave the default selection

  • Click Next > Next > Next and Save.

Step 3 : Generating Code for Washing Machine Device

• Click on Code Generator to generate the custom device code.

• Sinric Pro will generate custom device the code for ESP8266/ESP32. You can download the project as a zip file and unzip and run. Make sure you are using the latest version of the Sinric Pro SDK (v2.9.0). Otherwise you may see compile errors in your IDE

When you descover the devices in Alexa, Google, Washing Machine device will show

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