What does IDE: Raw Description mean?

[NickHark (Nicolaus Harkins)]

Thanks @Tyler @Sticks18

@workmonk gave me some clarification. I hope you don’t think I was playing “hide-the-ball.” Just trying to clarify what I need.

The reason I am asking about this Leviton switch and its device type is because when I attempted to connect another device which is also not on the ST template list, over a period of 4 days, 1480 “ZigBee Load Control Switch” devices connected to my hub and essential brought its functionality to a halt. I was able to delete these and my hub is now clean.

I did try to make a device handler for this other device, and it functions, but this makes no difference.

Whenever I turn on the other device it will begins to connect to this hub with the “ZigBee Load Control Switch” device handler.

I assumed it was this device handler that was causing the problem.

Can the device handler be modified to permit it to connect only to this one Leviton switch? This should be the subject of a thread, perhaps.

I note:

Should SmartThings support multiple certified SmartDevice Type Handlers for a single model of Device?

Continuing the discussion from Lock Code Manager: This is something I’ve given a lot of thought to. I don’t see us ever surfacing multiple device types for a single device in the mobile app. It adds too much complexity to what is already a very complex onboarding experience. I’d be curious to hear any feedback about that though. I agree that it is a UX challenge more than anything else, so I’ve spun off a new Topic. We can also discuss via Private Message and/or a phone call sometime, though, @Tyler, to go in more detail…, whatever works! The gist is that though “theoretically” a SmartDevice Type is an abstraction of the Thing sufficiently comprehensive that any SmartApp can deal with managing custom “features” via interaction between other Things. But that doesn’t acknowledge that…

but this doesn’t help me.