You can hear about it here: [Episode 334: SmartThings' new edge strategy] It starts at 4:42 and ends at 10:33

Nice to know something definitive, and what to get familiar with. I’m curious why ST settled on Lua? https://www.lua.org/

From what i have heard on the podcast, lua is very fast and light scrpting language meaning that it is also easier to code with.

[image] blkwll: I’m curious why ST settled on Lua? Information incoming. Stay tuned :wink: Announcement Link

We are waiting @jody.albritton :grin:

Liking what I’m seeing so far. Programming in Lua (first edition)

Curious to see if a conversion tool is coming

I wasn’t involved in the testing, so what hasn’t immediately become apparent from the available documentation is what the deal is going to be with ‘stock’ drivers, if such things still exist. A near fatal weakness of ST has been the lack of quality control of handlers. Once upon a time, it was seen …

This is the repo with official device drivers here: GitHub - SmartThingsCommunity/SmartThingsEdgeDrivers Those are the ones that have been fully tested so far. There’s another (private) repo with a bunch more in there that are written and “working”, but not yet fully tested. [image] orangebucke…

You had me right up to CLI… heheh… nah, I guess I’m just going to have to give it another go. I had a few install issues on my first go with it, but I’ll get it going.

Groovy is on the way out Smartthings Edge is the replacement

Developer Programs Writing Edge Drivers

jody.albritton (Jody) August 19, 2021, 12:04pm 4

Information incoming. Stay tuned

Announcement Link

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Groovy is on the way out Smartthings Edge is the replacement

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