NEW Hub Replace Feature for SmartThings Hubs!

[orangebucket (Graham)]

@allanp

I noticed in the driver list that community developed drivers didn’t have the name of the channel below them, and there was no section at the bottom titled “Channels your hub is registered to”.

When I did hub replaces I found that the API (via the CLI) reported the channel the driver was last installed from so that information was still there, but as you say the channel enrollments weren’t carried over. This seemed to be a concern as channels appear to be key to the driver update mechanism and indeed unenrolling from the channel is (or was) a known way of preventing your driver being updated.

The default channel doesn’t require enrollment so the problem is mostly limited to those with community or beta drivers.

[allanp (Allan)]

@orangebucket

channels appear to be key to the driver update mechanism

That’s good to know, and I’m glad I re-enrolled the channels. I would want to keep the driver updated if the developer continues to fix and improve it, since we’re using those drivers instead of stock ones because they provide some feature or improve on the stock ones.