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Dummy question. How do you move anything to Edge from their current protocol?

If you want to manually move it, you have to go through the following steps right now

  1. identify any routines using that device. These will probably be deleted when you delete the device. If you’re OK with that, you can just rebuild the routines later. If not, you may want to add a virtual device or another device to that routine, just to prevent it from being deleted

  2. remove the device from your account

  3. if there is a custom DTH that was being used by that device, you also need to delete it, but note that you will not be able to add it back again, because they have removed the add DTH feature from the IDE. So be sure that’s what you want to do.

  4. if there is a custom edge driver that you want to use, you need to get it downloaded to your hub by subscribing to that channel. You can also subscribe to the official Beta smartthings channel to get more drivers that way.

  5. once the edge driver that you want to use is on your hub, go ahead and re-add the device to your account, if necessary using the “scan nearby“ option in the app. It should automatically find the edge driver that matches its fingerprint.

  6. now you can rebuild the routines to use the device again.

And if that sounds like a lot of work, it is. The only reason you have to do all of that now is because right now two different architectures are still operating: the old one and the new one that uses edge. So a lot of people are just waiting for the automatic migration to see how much of that works for them.

Once the transition period is over and everything is operating on the new architecture, you won’t have to go through all the steps again. When you add a new device, it will get a new edge driver.

This whole manual process is only required for people who want to get started early before the official transition process is complete.

If you need details on each of the individual steps, see the community FAQ on edge:

FAQ: I have no idea what Edge is. Is that a new developer tool? (2022)

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