SmartThings JUST Announced The End of Groovy…



Huge Samsung SmartThings news! With SmartThings Groovy going away, it’s the end of SmartThings Groovy IDE, most SmartApps, and custom device handlers in SmartThings. There are more impacts too, so watch this video and find out what you have to do and what the future is of Samsung SmartThings, Edge drivers, and the Matter standard.

Wild stuff in the world of tech news and home automation. Stay ahead of it Automaters.

Join this channel to get access to extra videos, early releases, and other perks:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtRSKEipM17PF7n0mi66btQ/join

Subscribe to Take The Frustration Out Of Automation: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtRSKEipM17PF7n0mi66btQ?sub_confirmation=1

Our recommended smart home products (Amazon affiliate link): https://geni.us/3KzREP

Get in touch with us through the About Page on YouTube, or at automatelife.net. See my Statement of Ethics here: https://automatelife.net/our-ethics-statement/

Automate Your Life is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com and other Amazon websites.

Thanks for watching, and Don’t Hate, Automate.

Brian

source

This Post Has 33 Comments

  1. BeepBoop

    Tutorials for migrating smart app functionality to home assistant, particularly for smart locks. Fingers crossed rboy gets updated so it continues to work. This is frustrating. I guess I need to look into getting home assistant directly connected to schlage locks and start removing samsung's place in my home. I can't really look at this as anything but more reasons to dislike samsung. With multiple lemon phones from them in the past and then a washer, dryer, fridge, and dish washer that all died quickly and their warranty was a joke for, this was the last samsung product in my life. Hopefully I'm over reacting but samsung inconveniencing me for products I've spent money on… Probably time to fully remove them.

  2. BIG BEAR

    I'm still in love with Miss A. She still keeps my home running well !

  3. Noé Bailly

    Hii! Do you know if the virtual Alexa Switch that you promoted in the past will be automatically converted to Edge Drivers? I'm asking that because my home automations are heavy dependent on virtual switches. I am already using an Edge Driver for new virtual switches but my concern is regarding the old ones…

  4. Noé Bailly

    Do you know if SharpTools will loose its integration with Smartthings after September 30?

  5. layol692k7

    @Automate Your Life I was thinking to go with smartThings but there is a lot of uncertainty with it and, then I thought about going with the yolink system withe the incredible range of Lora. But on the other hand they said said nothing about matter. So it has left me to think I have to wait for matter to be implemented to buy anything. I am stuck between a rock and hard place if you get me there. My question to you is! Do you have any suggestions on wether I should or not wait till matter is fully implemented?

  6. Hugh Dinwiddie

    Good info, Brian. There's not much point in whining about it, but we need to adapt to it. I do hope they get their hubs working together. I'm one of those folks who is showing over 40 custom apps in the IDE although I'm probably not currently using over a handful. I know you've been playing around with Homekit more and I'm concerned that the major Homekit-ST integration developer moved to Hubitat and recommended those who use that integration do too. Of course if ST is going to support Homekit via matter, for example it might not be an issue in the long run, but certainly will in the short run as September is almost here. Keep the info coming. I'm glad a few years ago I made the decision to use Hue's pricey products (18 bulbs here.) They seem to have weathered the storm nicely and is a brand that continues to work with almost anything and everything. There's a lesson here someplace in shopping by brand vs price.

  7. Paris Valdivieso

    Brian the remaining DHT that I have right now is a simulated contact sensor you showed us to create a long time ago to trigger Alexa routines do you know if there is an option to migrate that or it will be part of the 1%

  8. GK2003

    This truly sucks. To use the new rules API, you have to become a programmer. That’s a far different thing than learning the “english language logic” of Webcore. Most of my integrations are now doomed

  9. Michael Solis

    Will this also affect my Virtual Simulated devices I created as triggers for Alexa routines? I did this on the IDE website.

  10. Home Tech

    Will virtual switches port over? If not Smartthings will become more dumb. Virtual switches run my smartphone with Alexa announcements.

  11. A tutorial I need is how to create virtual switches with contact sensor. So is possible to trigger alexa routines with smartthings

  12. Michael Mickey

    Thanks Brian! I've had good luck with the devices I manually moved to Edge (after having to remove a few DTHs for Inovelli to get my Illumin bulb to move to edge), so I'm looking forward to everything being there!

  13. Alexander Long

    the most part of it is losing webcore, as, hopefully the some more advanced built-in rules/automation would be available in the new hopefully local platform.

  14. Juan Munoz

    I just got Into simple automatons. I have been using webcore to create complex automatons. For example I have my living room lights slowly dim up at sundown. Will we loose these types of functions or will that app be updated to do similar automations.

  15. Lance

    I bought an Acura sensor and I went to find the custom handler place and came up empty. How would I go about getting the aqara sensor to be recognized by smart things?

  16. Max Mos

    What about IKEA devices, especially Styrbar? I only used my first DH and they go away? 😬😬

  17. ADD with DIY

    Also are you saying that ActionTiles will be going away?!

  18. Ron M

    Good info Brian, thank you.

  19. Andrew Bartlett

    Hey Brian great video, by what date will all devices migrate to Edge?

  20. Prsty Zq

    Hi Brian, the only time i logged in to the IDE was setting up the philips hue motion sensor to smartthings hub by copy pasting the code, does it mean i will lose the motion sensor functionality?
    and does it mean if i am getting new device i should go for the one that doesnt require IDE set up like AOTEC or SMARTTHINGS motion sensor?

  21. I've been using the vEdge app(?) to create my Edge virtual device handlers, and I love it. I think I've replaced all the Amazing device handlers I was using to translate between Alexa and SmartThings. vEdge has a bunch of different types of virtual devices. I started with using switches, quickly realized that I had to use contacts (not switches) to use them as triggers for Amazon routines, but what about all those other types of virtual devices? I'm sure I could think of some interesting things to do, if I knew what each type of virtual device was supposed to do. Is that something you could do a video on? What the different device types do? (Button vs Switch is a basic one with a good write up, but what about all the others?)

  22. Logan Fisher

    I'm glad I upgraded to Home Assistant when I did. I used Groovy a ton when I was on ST.

  23. Bryan Merrick

    Is there an edge driver for Govee? That is the only thing I would be extremely worried about. I have like 40 Govee lights lol. I dont want to have to go back to hubitat!!

  24. Scott Levin

    This is not good news for people using webcore and virtual switches/Alexa simulated switches.

  25. Steve Burgess

    Interesting video… how will this impact Action Tiles? Are we doomed to start from scratch?

  26. Heisenberg

    Will the Simulated Alexa Virtual Switches stop working/disappear? I have many of these to control devices without native SmartThings support and rely quite a bit on them.

  27. John Szatkowski

    This is OLD news! We ALL already knew Groovy was going away well over a year ago! Sorry! Did NOT waste 11:36min of my life to watch this! You even made a video of this MONTHS ago! ALL platforms upgrade and in MANY cases require equipment to be replaced/updated. You are obviously out of topics to discuss if your re-hashing this again!

  28. Bryan Hickman

    Need to know how to integrate with Alexa and Google Home if that's going to change.

  29. Lawrence

    Omg I’ve got a Samsung 8K 75” Smart tv 2020 model I think it is. I also have an echo show 10. For a while the tv and the sound bar would turn on when I asked Alexa and also turn off. But that never lasted long. Constant headaches with such a simple thing. I’ve tried going through the whole process from the beginning so many times I am really over it so any changes Samsung make is gunna be a good thing. Can’t wait till Matter gets going. Even the sound bar gets lost occasionally and I have to go into the tv settings in sound and change it back to tv and sound bar to be used. Gggrrr.

Leave a Reply