Anyone know the difference?
SmartThings Drivers
SmartThings Drivers (Beta)
Seems I canāt even enrol in the non-beta channel. Both web interface and CLI return a 500/UnexpectedError.
The stock drivers are installed from a default channel that end users are barely aware of and donāt interact directly with. We often call it the production channel on the forum because it is generated from the production branch of the GitHub repository for the drivers.
The beta channel is likewise generated from the beta branch. It originally offered a preview of Edge to interested users and developers but is pretty much accepted now as an open beta. There is usually a weekly update of the beta from the main repository and then that updates to production a week after that.
The drivers in the beta and default channels may still have significantly different fingerprint files as devices are still being ported to Edge and the rollout to production use is being carefully managed.
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Same applies to me.
Thank you:-)
I can only find one repo on Github: GitHub - SmartThingsCommunity/SmartThingsEdgeDrivers
Is this the beta or production branch?
Repos can have multiple branches. In this case the default is the āmainā branch but you can choose to view other branches, including the ābetaā and āproductionā branches.
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Found the beta brach down the list 
Does this link was supposed to work: (SmartThings Channel and Drivers)
Is there other way to install drivers from production branch? Iām not a developer 
I donāt think it is meant to work. The default channel is a special case.
Not that I am aware of. I think it is probably assumed that if you are going to do that sort of thing you will use the ābetaā branch and channel instead. Despite the ābetaā name it is considered a production channel. The only real difference is that the ābetaā channel gets driver updates a week earlier (there used to be a difference in the āfingerprintsā but I believe they are the same now).
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