New app Virtual switch

[JDRoberts]

@Malcolm_Ross1

While I was there I made a heap of generic ones for use later just incase this option becomes unavailable later, which seems to happen a lot with smartthings.

Speaking of changes…SmartThings has announced that they will be discontinuing the Groovy cloud soon, so anything you created through the IDE, including your stockpiled virtual switches, will no longer work when that happens. In fact, the IDE itself will be going away.

The replacement for Groovy DTHs will be Edge Drivers, written in the Lua programming language, which will run on your own hub.

One community member has already created an Edge Driver to generate virtual devices, so many people have switched to that method.

Of course, Edge itself is still in Beta, so all Edge Drivers are in beta right now, but in terms of futureproofing, Groovy won’t be much help.

Originally the Groovy cloud was supposed to be discontinued at the end of 2021. Obviously they missed that target and haven’t announced a new specific date, but the changeover is coming.

Official announcement (the topic title is a clickable link)

Updates to the SmartThings Platform

As you may be aware, we announced upcoming platform changes in our post on June 24. Today, we are kicking off the first of these changes. In this initial phase, we will be consolidating SmartThings into a single app and shifting away from select legacy systems. The purpose of this is to simply make things just – well — better, faster, more reliable and most of all, more secure. Over the next month, we will begin rolling out these changes. Don’t worry — we’ll be sure to reach out to all impacted users by email or in-app notifications. Here’s what you can expect to change: What’s Changing Transition Date Action Required The SmartThings Classic app will be sunset, and the new SmartThings app will be the single place to manage your smart home settings. October 14, 2020 Upgrade t…

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More about Edge:

FAQ: I have no idea what Edge is. Is that a new developer tool? (2022)

Edge Driver to create virtual devices for the new architecture:

[ST Edge] vEdge Creator: a virtual device generator for end users

Here is an Edge driver that will enable end-users to create virtual devices that run locally on-hub. UPDATED JULY 2023… Features: Supports the following virtual device types: A/C, air quality, alarm, Alexa switch, battery, CO2 level, contact, door, energy, fan, garage door, illuminance, Level/dimmer-only, lock, light (including RGBW), momentary button/doorbell, motion, panic, presence, refrigerator, smoke detector, sound pressure, sound sensor, switch, switch level/dimmer, temp/humidity, TV, thermostat, video camera, water sensor, window shade Create any number of virtual devices Easy and fast to use: No coding or CLI required Enables you to create 100% local automations with virtual devices See how many devices you’ve created of a given type (inventory) Devices include additional …