Centralite contact sensor device handler

[RottenMutt (Eric Anderson)]

What device handler do I use for Centralite contact sensor, Zigbee device?
Mine are currently set as placeholder. And I don’t see a Zigbee contact/door sensor to use in ide.

[jkp]

Placeholder means it is using an Edge Driver. Open it in the app, click the 3 dots and tap Driver. That will show you which Edge driver it is using

[RottenMutt (Eric Anderson)]

Well I changed it to smartsense open/close sensor….
Still shows as edge…. In app…

[jkp]

yikes, you can’t change Edge Drivers in IDE

[johnconstantelo]

Why would you want to go back to a DTH when thats going away?

[jkp]

yes, forget about IDE at this point. You can’t edit anything with Placeholder from there. You want to use Edge drivers going forwardband you can only manage those in the app or CLI.

FAQ: Why does the IDE list “placeholder” for my device? Can I change that?

non-technical answer: the IDE is part of the old groovy based architecture. It will be going away and be replaced with something else. in the meantime, anything which is using the new architecture will be represented in the IDE with “placeholder“ under the device type column. This includes devices using an Edge Driver. Since new edge drivers are being added overtime, it may even be that a device which is the same model number as a device you previously added which used a groovy DTH is now using an Edge driver and so shows up as placeholder. Don’t change it! Once the device is using an integration from the new architecture, you can no longer get to its code details through the IDE, And changing it to a different device type may break the integration altogether. If you need to cha…

[RottenMutt (Eric Anderson)]

I didn’t realize edge drivers are represented as “placeholder”. I went back to placeholder, but it ignored it anyway.