You are responding to a post which is more than five years old. Quite a few things have changed in that time, and the app has gone through several major revisions. So it’s usually best to just skip anything that is that old and hasn’t had any activity in the last 12 months.
As far as how to do a general exclude now, it should be under hub utilities in the app. It’s changed a couple of times, so hopefully someone who knows for sure will comment, but I believe if you find your hub in the devices list, select it, and go to its settings you’ll find the zwave exclusion there. But I could be wrong, at one point it was under the location information.
Meanwhile, check the date on the threads you encounter, while there is some information which is good from very old threads, those will almost always have recent activity.
Do you realize that I typed in today’s date and SmartThings app version number to indicate the post I replied to is more than five years old? Do you realize that I did this because a lot of replies to replies are wordy and redundant and are always reminding people to do a search for similar topics before posting the same question over and over, especially if the question is rather generic? Do you realize that I did so precisely because quite a few things have changed in the time that the original post to which I replied was posted, so that the app probably has gone through several major revisions.
So it’s usually best to just skip the necessary one-sentence opening remark as a sort of disclaimer unless you enjoy reading and writing all this stuff to go round about to your obviously understood suggestion to wait for hopefully someone who knows for sure what the answer is.
See how we can both just go on and on with lots of words and yet not really say anything?
Luckily I can do this half asleep in seconds flat. These forums are wonderful for finding answers within the question so that we go back and forth with lots of fun reading! Enjoy!
When you reply to a thread, you pop that thread up to the top of the forum. When a thread is this old that results in a lot of people reading a lot of very old and out of date information and adds to the general confusion.
Right now, smartthings is in the middle of a huge transition without a published detailed timeline, and without a lot of documentation, things are changing fast and everybody is struggling to keep up.
Most of this forum is just customers trying to help other customers, and it can get challenging.
We all try to help each other here, so please try to help us by letting ancient threads lie dormant.
We’re all exhausted right now, and you’d be doing us a favor. That’s all.
For example, if you had limited your search to topics posted this year, you would have found the following from two months ago, which probably would’ve answered your question immediately:
We go around and around in circles. Some forums bark at people for not following a thread, some bark at people for reviving an old thread — quite the opposite pattern of behavior to each other. Yet nothing is really said to be helpful but here we are going in wordy circles and saying nothing really useful. Do I really want to come here to chat all this gibberish or do myself a favor and just get to the point? What do you think? Write your comments in the section below. Why am I all exhausted right now for just asking a quick question to a community of non professional customers who are trying or not trying to help each other but just writing words after words going nowhere. I wonder. If writing style is any indication and if readers can detect writing style from the get-go, then no, I’m not a perpetrator here.
Instead, I only tried to be succinct but I do get caught up in this nonsensical verbose thing just to make a silly point. So do you prefer to read all this that I have to say in written words or would you have preferred that just to jump straight into an answer or non-answer without commenting on how the topic was brought up in the first place. It’s really your choice.
