I have a DTH that has worked perfectly for the past year that suddenly stop updating properly a few days ago. For some reason I can’t send “switch” events to child devices. I can update all other custom attributes with sendEvents but not “switch” events. In the code below, it does not throw any erro…

A fix this issue has been rolling out for a few days and it should be fixed for most users already. However it’s possible that a few people won’t see the fix until early next week just do to the staged rollout.

childDevice.sendEvent no longer works as of 4 days ago

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cjcharles (cjcharles) January 21, 2018, 11:28am 13

@tpmanley Does the fix also fix the child creation problem that I have listed here Problems with child creation at the moment?
Thanks again

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childDevice.sendEvent no longer works as of 4 days ago

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