Edge is in beta. Consider whether participating in the beta is appropriate for your willingness/ability to troubleshoot issues.
Is your device currently using a stock DTH? ST is working to transition those to Edge. Consider waiting for the official driver, which will be supported by ST staff. The vast majority of zigbee and z-wave devices will be supported by stock drivers, which will be maintained by ST staff.
Is your device currently running local with a stock DTH? If so, you probably don’t have anything to gain from moving to Edge before the official transition.
Is your device a unicorn that has never functioned properly with the stock DTHs and always required custom code? These are the situations where the community will need to fill the gap. Consider discussing with other users in the existing device topic to see if anyone is willing to take the lead on driver development. It’s very difficult to develop drivers for complicated/non-standard devices if you don’t own one to test on.
Thanks @JDRoberts for creating this thread. Makes a lot of sense to group requests all in one place, and with clear info about what’s required for someone if they were interested in taking up the challenge
I have 2 requests
1, Hampton Bay Zigbee ceiling fan controller (King of Fans)…Rafhael Borja has it listed in his Github repo with some of its attributes but apparently hasn’t moved on it recently
2 Integration with Govee, the current DTH integration published by Uncdubdiver works great but he has stated he most likely will not develop a driver to take its place as he has moved on. @TAustin , this one “might” fall into your field of expertise if you wouldn’t mind taking a look
Is there any kind of polling or voting capability in this community tool? Requests are starting to pile up and I need a way to determine which ones have the highest interest so I can prioritize my focus…
Anyone can create a poll, so if you yourself, as a developer, want to gauge interest just create a poll post and do it yourself for the devices you are trying to prioritize.
But in other cases it may just be a matter of a developer happening to have the same device or having a particular interest in a particular device, so I don’t think all the requests should be evaluated on the basis of community interest. Also, I’d be concerned that US requests would dominate a general poll just because of population size.
So I think it’s up to each developer to decide for themselves what they’d like to work on, if anything. If a poll helps you do that, go for it.
Just say something like “I’d like to prioritize which edge driver I work on next. If you have an interest in any of the following, please vote for it.“