Simulated devices offline

[eibyer]

I haven’t been keeping up with the changes but I still use virtual devices for testing. Was there any recent change that affected virtual devices? I have migrated my account to the new app but my V1 hub is currently unplugged.

[jamesguitar3 (James Liu)]

Outage Affecting STHM and some automations (19 Jan 2021)

New week, new cloud problem. https://status.smartthings.com/ Discussion in the following thread, plus a note from support posted by one member:

People have found the Virtual Switch with automation may cause the looping (switch on and off continuously), and suggested to switch the device driver from Virtual Switch to Simulated Switch in SmartThings IDE to resolve the issue. Not 100% sure if this was something you were looking for, but would be a good idea to take a look and switch them to Simulated switches.

[JDRoberts]

Or if someone is having this as a new problem, it could be this:

Devices added in April 2021 show online in IDE, offline in automations and app (both physical and virtual devices)

Many different people in both the US and UK reporting that many different kinds of devices, both physical and virtual, are showing as online in the groovy platform, including the IDE, but off-line in the app. This is happening to devices that were added recently, regardless of the type of device and regardless of whether it previously worked. So far it has been reported for some Z wave devices, some zigbee devices, and several different types of virtual devices. No idea what the problem is, and no workarounds have been reported yet, but it’s definitely real. Here’s one thread with particularly good screenshots. Note that the devices affected include one mains powered and one battery powered Z wave device, both using a stock DTH. If this is a physical device usi…