The concept of “child devices” no longer exists on Edge. For devices that have multiple components like LED strips, you can do the following:
- Create a device profile with multiple components and map them with the corresponding endpoints (if necessary) as described in this doc (Zigbee)
- In this option, only the main component is exposed to some third-party integrations like Alexa.
- Create separate devices in the same driver using try_create_device (Only for LAN drivers). Despite all being created with the same driver, they won’t be related as parent/child.
- Here you can use persistent storage to keep control of the devices created
- Also, be careful of creating several devices at once, you might have to avoid the device’s thread using
cosock.spawn(please, take a look at this post)