We’re excited to announce the start of a new SmartThings Hub Firmware Beta. Version 0.38.x will begin rolling out in batches starting in the week of July 12th; we will send out an email when we start updating Hubs. We will be paying close attention to any issues encountered by users so your hub may not get updated right away. The hub will be offline for about a minute during the update. See below for more specific details about the update.
Version
0.38.x
Hub Target:
Samsung SmartThings Hub 2015 (Hub v2)
Samsung SmartThings Hub 2018 (Hub v3)
Aeotec Smart Home Hub 2021
Release Date:
July 12th - July 16th, 2021
Release Notes:
Minor bug fixes and improvements
NOTE
Anyone who participated in the previous beta (0.37.x) is automatically signed up for this one.
If you’d like to participate in the beta, but haven’t taken the survey yet: Sign Up Here
Completely theorizing here, but my guess is that they won’t say a word about the Ikea issue until they have a fix already deployed and confirmed working so at not to stir the pot any more than it already is.
Got the update 4 hours ago. So far so good, but I have no idea what to look for to validate any “improvement”. @alissa.dornbos Can you please provide more information???
Ah yes I forgot about that. 38.8 arrived at about 5pm UTC for me.
Any changes to the Zigbee stack? My beta hub is still on 2.9.0, which is OK for my IKEA buttons (though they are behaving at the moment anyway) but not so great for being aware of changes.
If you are experiencing battery issues with the IKEA buttons, can you message me? We do not have a fix at the moment, it has been difficult to reproduce the issue at will. So I ask that if your IKEA buttons are being drained fast, can you message me so that we can collect more data points?
@Kianoosh_Karami - try to get some people from this topic. (I have removed all the remotes from my setup as the batteries drained.)
And if you have some time have a look on the links what I have posted there. It is not just SmartThings’ Zigbee stack. Are you using the EmberZNet from Silicon Labs?
I have a 5 button IKEA remote, and 2 of the TRADFRI SHORTCUT Button linked with 2 different smartthings hubs ATM. I’m not in the BETA program, both of my hubs are running 000.037.00004, but I can do whatever testing can be done from this end…
Hub A has the 5 button remote and a SHORTCUT.
Hub C has a SHORTCUT.
The 2 IKEA devices connected to Hub A will drain in 1-3 days. The 5 button remote won’t last 24-48 hours on a fresh cell. I removed it from the Hub after replacing the battery 3 or 4 times. The SHORTCUT lasts a few days tops.
The SHORTCUT on Hub C was installed 11 day ago and still reports 100% and checks in regularly. No idea why its working on there but not Hub A.
Both SHORTCUTS were purchased at the same time (I bought 4 from ikea.com). These two in use are both reporting firmware 0x23015631.
Both Hubs are V2’s with zwave and zigbee devices connected to them. The house with Hub A does have a Control4 setup which also uses Zigbee - that might be one of the causes of the drain.
I believe the cause of the drain is buttons being awake when they should be sleeping. One thread I read on the subject for another platform was beyond my current grasp of the subject - all short poll v long poll - but I felt it addressed the symptoms rather than the cause.
The best I can offer as a pattern is perhaps a change of Zigbee routing for the button. Not direct to hub v through a router, but simply a change.
Does anyone actually have an open project on Centercode for this beta? I don’t have anything to say myself but it would be interesting to know if anyone else did.