Updated() not activated anymore in custom Device Handlers?

[GSzabados (Gabor Szabados)]

@geeji, here is how updated() should work and should be used.

Do Device Handlers Officially Support the "updated()" method?

@geko @zcapr17 @slagle @Tyler I am seeing some interesting behavior as well. First, I never knew there was an “updated()” method that was called in a Device Handler. I know it works in a SmartApp, but the docs do not mention it for a Device Handler. So, as a test, I added an updated() method to one of my Device Handlers and I was pleasantly surprised that it does indeed get called when I finish editing preferences. However, even though it was called, and it ran my code based on live logging debug statements, the code did not actually do what it was supposed to do. In the following snippet of code, I am using a user entered preference called “mac”. I need to use this MAC address as the Device’s deviceNetworkId to allow LAN based packets sent through the hub to be routed to the correc…