Update to SmartThings Groovy Transition

[Sid_Azad]

Yes. Automatically migrated to stock driver “Zwave switch” until I changed them again in IDE and now nothing works. Even excluding and re-including doesn’t fix the issue.

[jkp]

unfortunately, you can not move devices from Placeholder to a DTH in IDE.

FAQ: Why does the IDE list “placeholder” for my device? Can I change that?

non-technical answer: the IDE is part of the old groovy based architecture. It will be going away and be replaced with something else. in the meantime, anything which is using the new architecture will be represented in the IDE with “placeholder“ under the device type column. This includes devices using an Edge Driver. Since new edge drivers are being added overtime, it may even be that a device which is the same model number as a device you previously added which used a groovy DTH is now using an Edge driver and so shows up as placeholder. Don’t change it! Once the device is using an integration from the new architecture, you can no longer get to its code details through the IDE, And changing it to a different device type may break the integration altogether. If you need to cha…

for the device that had Placeholder that you switched… you will need to remove it and add it back for it to work properly. use Add device > Scan for nearby devices and not By Brand.

I posted to you in a different thread:
start using SmartThings API Browser+ ... Now Available to All to verify devices are still using DTH or Edge drivers. IDE is going to be shut down at some point.

Life after the IDE: Questions and Answers

With the transition to the new architecture, the IDE is in the process of being discontinued. Some features are already gone. Any device using new architecture, such as those using edge drivers, will just show up as “placeholder“ and the information will be incomplete or even inaccurate. (For example, it will probably say that all devices showing “placeholder“ are in the cloud, where in fact all edge drivers run local.) Don’t try to use the IDE to change anything that says placeholder: you might even break the integration altogether. http://my.smartthings.com is the new official webpage access to your smartthings account. At first that page was pretty limited, but as of 29 June 2023 Samsung has now added a number of new “advanced” features to that page, making it much more like the old …

[Terri_Baker (TeBa)]

@Sid_Azad

Even excluding and re-including doesn’t fix the issue.

Once you do the z-wave exclusion look in the IDE tomake sure they arent still there. If they are, delete them from the IDE. Also make sure you don’t have any custom DTH installed for them as well before trying to re-add them.

[Sid_Azad]

Will do that next.
I managed to return all devices to “placeholder” in IDE and function normally (so far 1 day in), on Edge.
All I did was changed the “device name” and changed device type to “placeholder”. Changing the device name has helped (dont know why) in them not switching back to DTH.

[damohabir (Daniel)]

One week to Doomsday.

[DigitalDan (Dan)]