# Routines and smartapps no longer operating on Leviton/Hue combo

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**Category:** Connected Things\
**Tags:** hue, leviton\
**Created:** [December 18, 2021, 4:16pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/routines-and-smartapps-no-longer-operating-on-leviton-hue-combo/236351 "2021-12-18T16:16:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 8:53pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/routines-and-smartapps-no-longer-operating-on-leviton-hue-combo/236351/8 "2021-12-26T20:53:22Z")

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> [@uberrob](#):
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> I’m curious about @jkp 's comment that webcore is going away. Do we know if that’s true?

It’s true because the Samsung-hosted free Groovy cloud is going away. And that’s where webcore runs for smartthings.

All the custom Groovy code that runs on the old platform, including DTH‘s and smartapps, will have the same issue.

> [@Announcement | Changes to our Legacy SmartThings Platform](https://community.smartthings.com/t/announcement-changes-to-our-legacy-smartthings-platform/197958/):
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> Changes to the Legacy SmartThings Platform The explosive growth of our community and platform over the past few years has been an amazing experience for all of us at SmartThings. We have you to thank for building, innovating and growing with us as we push the envelope to what is possible in the connected home. Today, we wanted to let you know about the next evolution in our journey. We are making some important shifts in our strategy to best position our platform for the future and investing more deeply in improving the stability and security of our platform. With these changes, we will empower a broad ecosystem of developers to integrate and innovate with SmartThings using technologies of their choice. Over the course of the next several months, we plan to focus on the development of a …

It seems likely that Webcore will continue to run for Hubitat and that’s why you continue to see work being done on it, because that version runs locally and doesn’t use the Samsung cloud.

Smartthings staff have said in the past that they believe that by the time it goes away the combination of routines in the smartthings app and the rules API will have comparable functionality, but we won’t know for sure until it happens.

> **[Rules API](https://community.smartthings.com/c/developer-programs/rules-api/101)**
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> Community for discussing the new Rules API and sharing rule recipes.

They’ve said stuff like that before on other major transitions and it didn’t happen. 🤔

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