Device settings disappears when I use preferenceType: number

[nayelyz (SmartThings Developer Support)]

I everyone. I tried to replicate the first issue of changing a preference’s data type which made the “Settings” option disappear, but I was unsuccessful. In case it happens again, please report it before changing anything so we can investigate it further.

About this comment, @mocelet:

@mocelet

That happens with custom capabilities too, if you create a capability with an attribute of a certain type and then decide to change the type it will break and you better create a new capability (or a new attribute).

Can you elaborate on what “it will break” means?
We got another report about the driver not “syncing” with the latest version of a custom capability (new attribute/commands, etc. meaning we get an error in the logs when trying to use the new config in our driver) and, here I shared the feedback from the engineering team to clarify some things about this behavior:

When modified custom capabilities are updated on the hub

Hi, @RBoy Sorry for the delay. So, checking with the engineering team, they mentioned the following: The update will take up to 12-14 hours without intervention. If you use the CLI to reinstall the driver or perform a hub restart to force an update, then that can be done after 2 hours My suggestion in this case is that, next time you update your custom capability: Take a note on the timestamp when you performed the update Then, try restarting the hub and using this command: smartthings edge:drivers:install Take a note of the time you did this as well If it doesn’t work, please share the timestamps with me and submit your hub logs. Since you have more than one hub, please share its name so I can find its details on your account.