Update on SmartThings Classic Shutdown

[GSzabados (Gabor Szabados)]

@mwav3

I haven’t tried a “two way” mirror lately. All I’m doing with smartlighting right now is to set one switch on/off (switch 1 mimics switch 2), including the level based on another, but last I tried to do it in reverse (switch 2 also mimics switch 1) it created a race condition where the light would rapidly switch on and off at times.

That’s happened as well.

"Mirror" in Smart Lighting SmartApp seems to be inconsistent

A bit of a long post, but I have several behaviours that I need to outline in detail to get across what is going on… I use “Mirror” behaviour in three setups in my home. In each case, the “Mirror” acts differently. Two work well enough that I have no complaints but only one of those works exactly as I would expect. The third is completely broken when I enable it and I have had to change the rule to “Turn On (and also off)”. They are as follows: GE Zigbee Dimmer switch is mirrored by GLEDOpto RGBW strip (set up as a ZLL device). When I turn on or off the GE dimmer, the GLEDOpto strip follows exactly; it doesn’t matter if the action is at the GE Dimmer, through a Smart Lighting automation or just through the standard app (not classic) on Android. This is acceptable but if I turn the GLED…

If you look at the comments, setLevel throws a value in and that triggers the light to turn on again.

@mwav3

The bottom line is Smartlighting and Webcore are still essential to anything beyond a simple automation. A lot of their functions aren’t replicted in the existing automations of the new app or rules API. If these programs are phased out with no replication of the automations elsewhere, I’d have to move all automations to Home Assistant and Node red, and my Smartthings hub would just be a glorified Zwave/Zigbee stick only.

The way how HA handles Automations that is amazing. Especially the run type Single, Restart, Queued, Parallel.

Otherwise has the SmartThings integration updated for the new SmartThings API or still uses the Groovy code?