I completed a successful hub replace (v2 to v3) with 107 devices today. Devices were mix of Zigbee, Zwave, matter, and internet connected. Everything came across fine… no hiccups.
Also did a setup of a hub group w/a second v3 with no problem.
I was nervous and expected problems given my 8 year history with SmartThings. Happily surprised.
I’ve been successful too, subject to a few minor quirks. I did have an issue with starting a v2 to v2 this week because it claimed there wasn’t enough memory in the destination hub. This appeared to be the result of freshly installed hubs not quite getting in sync as quickly as they might. I’ve done several installations over the last few days and just about every time I’ve noticed that the freshly installed hub shows as being on firmware 49.9 in the AWA, the mobile app, or both, and you can’t do things like change like successfully reboot online or change the Zigbee channel (you don’t always get an error, it just doesn’t happen). Power cycling often clears the problem but not always. I even had a v3 supposedly claiming its Zigbee was completely disabled until I installed a Zigbee device on it. Something just isn’t quite as it used to be.
I’ve also noted that Edge driver enrolments don’t carry across from replaced hubs.
I thought there was an issue with the AWA not showing the parent hub of Matter devices after a replacement. However it seems it doesn’t do it regardless.
Just curious as to why you had to switch from V2 to V3. Did your V2 hub fail?
Has anyone else found that the base is now deteriorating? The nominal feet are disappearing and it is getting really sticky. It has happened to all three of mine. Apart from that they still seem fine.
I’d really like to be able to group v2 hubs and have multiple groups in a Location.
Honestly, when I set mine up five or six years ago, I haven’t touched it since. It’s been in a cabinet the whole time.
No but it was acting flakey.
I’ve recently switched away from using a single v2 as my main hub. There was nothing wrong with the v2, and I’d have been perfectly happy to use two or three v2 hubs in a group and an external TBR (or preferably two) going forward.
However using v2 hubs in a group isn’t possible and I haven’t come across a cost effective way of getting an external TBR that actually works properly with Matter. With the Station not having arrived in the UK market yet, a pair of v3 hubs seemed to be the most effective option right now.