I’m interested in buying the smartthings wifi mesh system. However my concern is how difficult is to add these smartthings wifi access points to my existing ST home. Will I need to reset up my home and devices within the ST platform? Or can they co-exist and be added as additional hubs with my current v3 hub.
The smartthings Wi-Fi mesh hubs use a different firmware. You cannot mix and match them with the other model hubs. So unfortunately it is like any hub migration now: you would have to remove the devices from your existing hub and add them to the new Wi-Fi mesh system, one by one, manually.
Meh. That’s a hard pass for me to not be able to just add these hubs to existing homes as extenders. If there was a way to backup automatons and restore them on new hub. I’d consider it… Too bad.