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Yes, any device with Placeholder in IDE is using an Edge driver or cloud to cloud integration using the new architecture. You can’t edit those in IDE. IDE is basically for the legacy groovy platform that will be shut down when the migration to Edge and LUA is complete.

After you follow the instructions they sent you, open the device in the ST app, click on More (3 dots in the upper right) and tap Driver from that menu. Then tap on select different driver to select the new Driver you enrolled to in their instructions.

FAQ: Why does the IDE list “placeholder” for my device? Can I change that?

non-technical answer: the IDE is part of the old groovy based architecture. It will be going away and be replaced with something else. in the meantime, anything which is using the new architecture will be represented in the IDE with “placeholder“ under the device type column. This includes devices using an Edge Driver. Since new edge drivers are being added overtime, it may even be that a device which is the same model number as a device you previously added which used a groovy DTH is now using an Edge driver and so shows up as placeholder. Don’t change it! Once the device is using an integration from the new architecture, you can no longer get to its code details through the IDE, And changing it to a different device type may break the integration altogether. If you need to cha…