Upcoming breaking change
Release 3.29.0 will remove all drivers that have been deprecated for almost two years now. Devices still using these drivers (these devices show a notification on the device screen) will stop functioning within Homey if they aren’t re-paired before this release is published. With release 3.28.0 your timeline will show the Shelly devices still using a deprecated driver to give you a heads up about this. The 3.28.0 release is already available in the test channel and is pending approval in the app store. It will probably be released next week.
Some background on this. In August 2022 a generic Shelly WiFi device driver was introduced which replaced all device specific device drivers. This was done to accommodate the ever growing Shelly eco system making the app more manageable and therefor future proof. The device specific drivers where deprecated at that point in time as well. It was communicated that for the time being these deprecated drivers would continu to function but it was recommended to re-pair your devices with the generic driver as these device specific drivers weren’t maintained anymore. Deprecated devices have been showing a notification ever since. Some less used drivers have been removed since then but the time has come to remove them all. We have come to the point that errors are occurring due to these unmaintained drivers. I’m aware there is still a small user base that have ignored these deprecation warnings and all previous communication on this. This small user base is still using the deprecated drivers. But extending the grace periode for even longer than the current 1,5 years will probably not help with this, they will just keep on ignoring it. So this is a final warning, including timeline notifications, to reach at least some of these users and give them the change to re-pair on time. The rest will find out the hard way with release 3.29.0.
