Groovy IDE Migration questions

[JDRoberts]

@HalD

The requirements to get a ZigBee or Z-Wave device migrated to an Edge driver now, before automatic migration, are not at all clear.

Is it necessary to join the beta program for the hub or can custom Edge drivers be added to the non-beta hub firmware?

What actually triggers a device to hunt for an Edge driver?

Are you talking about a custom edge driver or a production edge driver?

If you want to use a custom edge driver, that’s tedious but well documented.

The Following only applies during this transition When both groovy DTHs and edge drivers are available.

Note that this does mean that you will have to re-create any routines and automations you have referring to the device. That’s only true during the transition period.

You do not have to be subscribed to the Beta.

A. If your device is currently using a custom DTH:

1. Delete the device from your account.

2. If the device was using a custom DTH, either delete that from your account or comment out the matching fingerprint.

3. Follow the channel link that the author will give you. Subscribe your hub to the channel and select the individual drivers you want to download.

4. The drivers you selected will be automatically downloaded. This might take only a few seconds, it might take a few hours.

5. Once the driver is on your hub, re-add the device. It should automatically select the custom edge driver.

6. Re-create your routines and automations.

B. If your device is currently using a production Groovy DTH, skip step 1, and just start with step two above. custom Edge Drivers are given priority over production groovy DTHs right now.

C. If your device is currently using a production edge driver, follow steps 3 and 4 above to download the custom edge driver to your hub. Then you should just be able to go to the device details in the app and switch from one driver to another. Note that any additional new devices with the same fingerprint that you add to your account will now use the custom edge Driver, because it has priority over the production edge driver. Again, you can go to the device details in the app and switch drivers for an individual device if you want to.

For more details, like how to tell what drivers are on your hub and how to remove a driver if you don’t want it anymore, see the community FAQ:

FAQ: I have no idea what Edge is. Is that a new developer tool? (2022)

As of September 2023, SmartThings has now almost completed transition to a new architecture, part of which is called Edge. The Samsung-hosted free groovy cloud gradually went away beginning on September 30, 2022. For hub-connected devices, including Zwave and Zigbee, the DTH replacement will be Edge Drivers, which are written in the Lua programming language and will run locally on your own hub. IF YOU ARE NEW TO SMARTTHINGS If you are new to SmartThings, the basics of the SmartThings architecture are pretty simple: A) An “Edge Driver” is code that runs on your SmartThings/Aeotec hub so the hub can talk directly to an individual device. If you don’t have a hub, you can skip all the rest of this thread: it won’t apply to your setup. B) If your device uses a “cloud to clo…

I don’t know anyway to get production edge drivers on demand right now if they aren’t already on your hub except by subscribing to the beta channel, but hopefully someone else will chime in if there is a way.