Michael_Habib:
Now I have another ‘dumb’ question - I have 20 similar relays in my home already, installed & connected to the Hub via the old DTH & working fine. Is there a way to force migrate them to your driver without having to delete & re-add them?
Keep in mind that 20 relays = 40 devices, and God knows how many rules
Also they are installed inside wall switches, so lots of screws to undo just to hit that pairing button
Here is a smartthings post with a section dedicated to the migration of devices that do not use stock DTH and can migrate to a community-created Edge driver if it is already installed in the Hub and the driver is compatible with the device.
Since our last update, we have been diligently working to continue migration of Groovy devices to our new Lua Edge drivers as well as launching new features for Matter devices and the SmartThings application.
We wanted to provide an update on some next steps for this platform transition over the next few months. Be sure to watch the announcements section of the SmartThings community for more updates like this.
Automatic Device Pairing with LUA Drivers
After May 24, 2023, we plan on disabling device joining for Groovy DTHs in SmartThings. After this change, newly connected devices will use a SmartThings owned driver or (if you have it installed) a community-created driver for device setup. This step will not cause your connected devices with Groovy DTHs to stop working but, if you have t…