Sorry for the delay. Yes, the current routines in SmartLighting will be migrated without your intervention. However, as this will be an automatic change, we suggest you:
Don’t have any routines on pause (if you’re not using them, it’s best to delete them)
Review them to know they are working correctly and have the configuration you need.
That’s interesting. Apologies for the confusion, I wasn’t referring to that.
What I meant is that you will not be required to make any changes or additional efforts as long as you complete the actions I listed above:
@nayelyz Do you know if the porting of SmartLighting routines will include the routines that “Mirror Behavior”? This is a tricky one to do with regular automations. Can be pretty tedious.
It is the app migration all over again. The reward for the users who made the effort to migrate in good time was to see those who left it to the last minute get their Routines migrated for them and get given replacements for SHM custom routines. Then when the generous deadline arrived nothing happened for months while the mess was cleared up.
So I am afraid the last thing I want to see is anything that encourages users not to migrate now, and worse still to have an automatic migration process that has to have a strong chance of needing some remedial work.
Will these be migrated as routines in the app? Asking because there is a 200 routine/scene limit in the app. What happens if the migration puts you over the 200 routine/scene limit?
Will they be migrated to an Edge equivalent of the SmartLighting app or simply to routines?
I have automations that I had to leave in the SmartLighting app because routines do not offer the option of more than 60 minutes before sunset, so routines currently don’t meet that specific need.
Edge isn’t meant to replace smartapps like Smart Lighting. the migration from old ->new is as follows (Very simplified):
Groovy DTH → SmartThings Edge
Groovy smartapp > Rules API or self-hosted apps
Routines is a User Interface for the Rules API. So Smart Lighting will migrate to Routines. (and yes, there are gaps between Routines and Smart Lighting functionality)
It sometimes takes a little while. I applied when one beta release was announced on this forum but the application wasn’t processed until the next one was imminent.
So are hubs in the beta programme. Some users, presumably those who took part in the closed alpha for the Edge drivers, get the new releases a little earlier.
I don’t think I’m in any special program now, but since my time last year in the Alpha program, I seem to continue to get these firmware updates before most. Which is good, since I can find things like this and get them fixed before it affects those depending on my drivers!