Background:
I noticed the past few days that many of my Automation Smart Apps are no longer working. When going to check them in the app, they’re all toggled off, and if you try to toggle them on, the toggle disappears. (As others have reported.) If you try to modify & re-save them, I get an error “No Network Connection”. (I’m definitely connected to my home WiFi.) I figured it might have something to do with the transition I read about sometime last year, and found this thread.
Honestly, after setting up S.T. a handful of years ago, I rarely come here unless there’s a problem (usually between S.T. and my Arlo cameras). In my one visit to the community last year, I read something about transitioning away from Groovy apps, but I feel like I’ve been seeing that for years, along with the arguments about classic app vs new app, etc. While I shouldn’t have buried my head in the sand on this… I did notice some Apps (like SmartLighting) slowly transitioning last year. My hub would restart overnight, and I’d lose something for a few days, and then it’d start working again. I figured I’d wait to see what wasn’t working, and deal with it later once the mess stopped. I guess I’m there now.
Question:
So, this brings me to my dumb question: How do I know which of my apps were groovy-based, and which are not and S.T. just temporarily broke to transition them (like they have for a few days over the past few months)? I’ll admit that I didn’t dive too deep into understanding everything, except for several years ago when I first started, but I’ve since forgotten most of that knowledge. I know that’s on me, but are there any simple guides to knowing which of my automation Smart Apps are permanently broken, and which S.T. or developers are still transitioning? If it helps, most of the things that are broken involve a motion sensor triggering an Arlo camera to record, and a virtual device and/or buttons triggering a message to be played on my Sonos speakers. I can’t get into the Groovy IDE anymore to tell you what they are though.
Apologies for my ostrich behavior… sometimes it’s hard to keep up withing everything when life is really busy, and everything was working just fine for several years.