I came home from being away for a few days to find all my legacy virtual switches stopped working. I realized it when a bunch of automation that fires when I got home didn’t trigger. Opened some switches in the app and they look fine, but when I try and switch them I get a network error. I also noti…

Replying to confirm exactly the same here too. Two days ago, all virtual switches changed from “on/off” to “connected”. All associated automation stopped running. They were all gone from the virtual switch creator in the iPhone app. So I deleted all of them. It took hours to recreate all switches…

What is the “virtual device creator app” you are referring to? Are you talking about “vEdge Creator” Edge Driver? Or are you talking about some old smart app?

Virtual Device Creator has been one of the modules on the Automation tab in the iPhone app. While I’m somewhat familiar with the online device handlers, this part of the app always created virtual switches that claimed to execute locally (they would show the home icon in smart lighting for instance…

That was a Smart App and they are dead. You need to find a new method to create virtual devices. There are several ways. If you have a ST hub @TAustin 's vEdge Creator” Edge Driver is a good way.

The one in the API Browser+ is also good.

[image] jpstewart: Virtual Device Creator has been one of the modules on the Automation tab in the iPhone app. While I’m somewhat familiar with the online device handlers, this part of the app always created virtual switches that claimed to execute locally (they would show the home icon in smar…

Hi, @liuliu I checked your account and I see those devices are now using the LAN-thing driver. The team mentioned that happens when the device was using a Custom device type (DTH). For example, if you created a DTH in the old IDE or if those virtual devices were created by a Custom SmartApp like i…

I’m confused by what you mean by “…these have stopped working multiple times, moving to a lan thing…” Until this weekend, July 2023, everything with our smartthings setup was working fine. Suddenly a few days ago, many scenarios around the house completely stopped working and I found it was the …

[image] jpstewart: By deleting these and recreating them in the app, under virtual device creator, which is a feature that has been in the smartthings app for quite a long time In iOS, virtual device creator was never an official feature. It was a custom smart app created by a community membe…

Legacy virtual switches stopped working (July 2023)

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Legacy virtual switches stopped working (July 2023)

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