Hub Firmware Release Notes - 17.12/17.13/17.14

[JDRoberts]

A number of people have reported problems with Z wave devices in the last few weeks. Probably the fastest way to find these is on the bug first reports page in the community – created wiki.

http://thingsthataresmart.wiki/index.php?title=Bug:_First_Reports

There’s also a specific issue that has been affecting some Z wave switches that appears to be related to a bug with the refresh command. You can find that technical discussion in the following thread:

Recent Platform Update Broke Parse Method Response/Result (April 2017)

Update: After a lot more testing, the initial issue I explained below always existed, but manually applying the response command to each item in the list didn’t always work either so I think there’s a larger issue with the way the parse result is being handled. The one thing I do know is that if you use sendHubCommand and sendEvent instead of returning items from the parse method, everything will work the way it’s supposed to… A few days ago most of my devices started reporting that they were offline and I tracked the problem down to SmartThings ignoring the events being returned from the WakeUpNotification event handler. I ended up changing all of my device handlers to use sendEvent instead of using createEvent and that solved the problem, but it didn’t explain why it was only effecti…