benderrobit:
Does anyone happen to know if SmartThings will/still support updating (non-Hub) device firmware? My ST v2 HUB hasn’t always been particularly consistent/reliable in that regard depending upon the device, but I was hoping to trigger firmware updates for same-model devices to hopefully get them all running the same firmware. (Before you say ‘you don’t need to’, yes, I know… but my question stands.) Thank you =)
This is being discussed in the beta for new hub firmware, and the short answer seems to be that they don’t know how to support it for the edge driver architecture.
Here’s a comment from a smartthings engineer about the various issues. It at least shows that they are thinking about the issue.
Apologies if this was not more publicly known.
We have Z-Wave OTA support in the Hub, and it is available to Customer Beta users for the limited devices that we support, but there were two problems that we had:
Dynamic download of the OTA images for the Z-Wave devices: This particular item is a combination of many little things, but the gist of it is this. The current behavior, for Zigbee as well, the new images/firmware for the devices are only provided when releasing a new Hub Firmware. Unlike Matter, there is no ecosystem level infrustrcuture (Zigbee or Z-Wave) to obtain new images, and we would need to work with the manufacturer on this. However, we solved the original part of this problem by adding the capability for the Hub to download new images for Matter devices from the inte…
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