[RELEASE] HubConnect - Share Devices across Multiple Hubs (no longer SmartThings!)

Here's the HubConnect Remote API documentation:

https://hubconnect.to/knowledgebase/3/Remote-Client-API

Shouldn't be hard to find testers when you've got the code ready :smiley:

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I have installed HUBConnect v 2.0 in my HPM; Is this a different build than I have?

How do I migrate this from one to the other?
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What is the future of this now ST is getting rid of Goovy? Sorry for all the questions.

It's just an alternate method of installing. Result is the same.. the code that is needed land in the correct spots (Apps Code or Driver Code)

v2.0 is exactly the same as v2.0Beta2 with every file touched to remove the Beta aspect.

The question of ST and the future.. has been answered several times in this topic.

There is no future as far as I can tell. :slight_smile: If/when ST pulls the Groovy IDE, that impact will be what ST dictates. Will pulling the IDE be a "can't make changes" but it will continue to work? And if so, how long?

All of that are ST questions and I have no insight.

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Thank you! Sorry for the ST Question. it was muddled in with some other stuff. Thank you very much. Sorry for the questions again.

Is there a way to have Life360 presence sensors linked in smartthings?

I have a few devices that won't show in smartthings for some reason. I was able to create virtual devices for some of them and then link the status to the actual hubitat device.

I'm just mirroring devices from hubitat to smartthings since that is the app my wife already knows.

Something to be aware of if you think about using Hubconnect to interface with Smartthings.

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The end is near.

This has been a slow death.

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With the long delayed announcement looks like will have to switch our dish washer to power monitoring. And add a contact sensor to our fridge.

Or just one of the two options to poll the Smartthings API. You can use Node-Red or thr specialized driver that does polling.

@maverik which specialized driver do you mean? Can you also use it for a Samsung washer to get the current status? The other possibility would be the power monitoring as mentioned by @markbellkosel84 .

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Sorry if this has been answered but I wasn't able to find it. What will happen to the hubconnect devices that are in Smartthings and Hubitat? Will they just disappear on September 30th or will they show up as ghost nodes that need to be cleaned up?

Whatever is the most inconvenient for their customers, I presume. The remote hub will appear unresponsive, because of course, without Groovy, it can't respond. I'm expecting I'll have to delete the remote hub instance.

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I've been trying to end my SmartThings interaction for 3 years :smiley:

Twice I've shut down SmartThings, only to be pulled back via the Community... once when Steve created HubConnect and I volunteered to assist with the support. After ST announced its pull back from Groovy and Hubitat released HubMesh, I shut it down again. I was pulled back in by new ST migrators and had a Hubless instance running for a year or so.

Today, I ended ST for the 3rd time and shut my Hubless instance. I've removed everything from the ST App, and then removed everything from the IDE.. Apps, Drivers and Devices.

I carefully place this burden into it's small box, seal it with tape and slide it onto the shelf. :smiley: :smiley:

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Thank you so much for all your help as always. You are a major contributor and we appreciate you.

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I loved HubConnect with ST and Hubitat in parallel. It made using them together so easy, that I was able to procrastinate endlessly. Well, until now. lol

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Just pulled my last remote device from SmartThings and shut down the server before the groovy apocalypse. I want to thank @srwhite & @csteele for an awesome application/solution; that served both as an easy way to transition from ST to HE, and then maintain general functionality I was too lazy to move.

AGAIN A HUGE THANK YOU to @srwhite and @csteele !!

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I am still using SmartThings via HubConnect to get Arlo motion sensing into Hubitat and to turn the cameras on and off via mode. Arlo is a linked service there, but still seems to have issues for integration directly into Hubitat (why still???).

I understand that HubConnect may die on Sep 30, but am wondering if it really has to or if it can not be ported as I presume a lot of people use ST as such a bridge for where HE falls short and does not deliver. I am aware of the IFTTT option, but why do they get to profit offering a quite delayed Arlo signal. What Arlo integration is available with HE that is (local and) direct?

The reality is the maintainers of HubConnect no longer use SmartThings. From what I read an external system would need to be created anyway to broker communications with their new APIs. I would suggest reading this thread as an option to integrate your Arlo cameras via NodeRed:

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It doesn't have to die, but no one has stepped up to make the migration. Including me. :smiley:

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