We’re excited to announce the start of a new SmartThings Hub Firmware Beta. Version 0.60.5 will begin rolling out in batches starting no sooner than January 23rd, 2026. This will be a phased rollout so that we can keep a close eye on any issues that arise so your hub may not be updated immediately. The hub will be offline for about a minute during the update. See below for more specific details about the update.
Hub Target
Samsung SmartThings Hub 2015 (Hub v2)
Samsung SmartThings Hub 2018 (Hub v3)
Aeotec Smart Home Hub
Aeotec Smart Home Hub 2
ThingsOne Smart Home Hub
Release Dates
0.60.5: 01-23-2026
0.60.7: 02-09-2026
0.60.8: 02-18-2026
Help Us Help You
As part of our Beta program, it is important for our support team to investigate logs from Hubs running that are reporting errors. To provide our team access, please follow these instructions:
NOTE: For any LIT-capable devices that were onboarded prior to receiving Hub FW 0.60.5, LIT will need to be manually enabled
Zigbee group handling improvements
The hub now selectively sends follow-up unicast commands only to devices that fail to report a status update within the expected time, rather than sending unicasts to all devices after every group command. This reduces network utilization while maintaining reliability.
NOTE
If you’d like to participate in the beta, please see these instructions for how to sign up or unenroll.
Anyone who participated in the previous beta is automatically signed up for this one, unless you have unenrolled.
Was happy to read this since I was going to write a post asking why after powering on a Matter over Thread light it took around 45 seconds to be able to be controlled with a smart button. Looks like an eternity compared to my cloud based lights that are available within seconds.
Just got 60.5 firmware and tested with a IKEA KAJPLATS, 47 seconds, more or less like before. Is it the bulb to blame in this case?
Tested once with a Nanoleaf and took 28 seconds, so maybe it’s a variable time. Still find half a minute a lot, is Matter so slow to startup?
Anyway, nothing strange so far with the beta and everything seems to be working.
Ah, I’ve just realised I misread the original post. I was thinking of the incredibly long time it could take Matter devices to come back online if a hub had gone offline. In the case of Matter over Wi-Fi devices it could be something like twenty minutes. It was something I noticed when I used hub groups and they changed primaries.
I noticed if the time between the power off and on is short it recovers pretty quickly. But if it stays powered off for few minutes then it takes almost a minute.
Just tried this and indeed displays long idle time. Which is surprising since the BILRESA scroll is Matter 1.3 and the feature was provisional in that version. It was only announced when Matter 1.4 was released.
Edit: It’s also interesting that, according to the Matter compliance document, MYGGSPRAY, the motion sensor, also has the ICD cluster. However, the ICD option in SmartThings does not appear so maybe it’s not there or does not work correctly.
All of them are battery-powered, different connection paths. Devices 1, 2, and 3 - all of them IKEA - came back online after intervention (triggering them, removing/reinserting the battery). Device 4 is still offline.
Time: 15:13 UTC ± 10 minutes
Same email address, logs dumped.
Edit: rebooted the hub in the meantime, because this is a production environment…
My turn, a BILRESA scroll named “BILRESA bad” went offline, but not only that.
At 7:20 CET (6:20 UTC) it generated four button pressed events on its own without user intervention, I don’t know if it was the button sending them or SmartThings repeating them. I don’t remember pressing it and if I did it was not four times, that’s for sure.
Now the button is bricked, the selector of the bottom won’t cycle the lights, presses do nothing. It’s not the first time though, so may as well be a bug in IKEA firmware.
Dumped the logs.
Edit: I finally factory reset the button and is working again. I believe it was actually connected to the Thread network because I could see it in mDNS records, I guess the problem was the Matter session and that’s why it appeared as offline.
Button selection must be local to the device, don’t you think. Surely this is an IKEA hardware issue and not something that requires SmartThings investigation. If the Bilresa does not recover when reset, return it to Ikea.
Bilresa is my first Matter device as I experiment with Matter. I am still a Zigbee/Z-Wave person.
Button selection is local but we don’t know the behaviour of the lights to assume where is the issue.
The lights are to provide feedback, but maybe when it is offline it does not light up so the user knows it is not going to work.
It is important to know why it is offline. Also, mind SmartThings and IKEA are now partners and the BILRESA scroll is one of the selling features of the partnership so, even if it is not SmartThings fault, they can send the relevant logs to IKEA so they fix it.
Fair point.
Also, to be fair, this is a beta release, and your, and other’s beta testing of Matter seems to be required.
IKEA took a brave step into Matter; I hope they do not get burned. Their inexpensive smart devices are the reason I am with SmartThings.
Bilresa is a cute functional device, and very inexpensive, which is why I bought one to play with.
So … since my main issue with ST these days is with battery powered Thread devices being intermittent, I have just enrolled my hub into Beta to try the Long Time Idle thing.
Right … so with hub firmware 60.5 beta, the BILRESA (both types) and the Heiman CO sensor offer switching to LIT.
my.smartthings.com gives me a green popup saying “Success. It may take a short time for the change to take effect.” I made the changes late last night and now at 10:30am all of these devices are still on SIT.
So, the manual switch to LIT does not work for me.
Also, the IKEA water leak and motion sensors do not expose that choice. Not sure if they’re actually not capable, but at least for the water leak sensors I would have expected it.
Also also, the CO sensor went offline and then later back online again just like it kept doing with hub firmware release 59.8.
Epilogue: BILRESA dual button, factory reset, freshly added with 60.5 beta, is on LIT by default. Good.
So I just reset and re-added the CO sensor to check whether it switches to LIT, but …
my.smartthings.com does not show the SIT/LIT item anymore at all, neither for the BILRESA nor for that Heiman CO sensor.
Has something been withdrawn in the past hour?
Update: The CO sensor has just gone offline again this morning, and I can’t see whether it is on LIT or SIT because the item is no longer visible.
Anyway - whatever 60.5 tried to improve here either didn’t engage or didn’t help.
Update³: So now the LIT/SIT control does appear for one of those BILRESAs that I had before I went Beta. How do I diagnose whether the newly added ones are on LIT or SIT when it’s not showing in the UI?
Update^4: My hub updated to 60.7, now the BILRESA rotary finally switched to LIT. I have reset and paired the CO sensor once again this morning, it now shows LIT mode too. Let’s see whether it still keeps disconnecting randomly only to come back hours later.
Update^5: The CO sensor went offline again. This is not a radio issue, it is less than three meters from the hub in direct unobstructed line of sight.
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