Aeotec Smart Home Hub 2/Aeotec Smart Home Hub Firmware (0.59.8) Update

Aeotec Smart Home Hub 2/Aeotec Smart Home Hub Firmware (0.59.8) Update

Aeotec will begin rolling out firmware version 0.59.8 starting December 8, 2025. The rollout will happen in phases over several weeks, so your hub may not be updated immediately. Once the update is downloaded, your hub will briefly go offline while it reboots and applies the update. Most users will experience less than one minute of downtime.

Hubs to be updated:
  1. Samsung SmartThings Hub 2018 (Hub v3)
  2. Aeotec Smart Home Hub
  3. Aeotec Smart Home Hub 2
  4. ThingsOne Smart Home Hub

Release Notes (As Per Aeotec)

General
  1. Upgraded to Matter 1.5 SDK
  2. Added support for Matter Cameras with the following features:
  3. Live Streaming, Snapshot and Video Clip Recording, Zone Management, Live Talkback, Pan-Tilt-Zoom
  4. Requires SmartThings App Version 1.8.41.x (Android) or 1.7.41.x (iOS), which will be available soon
  5. When merging a Hub’s Thread network into a 3rd party network, handle unexpected data in the Thread network settings that might have previously prevented the merge from succeeding.
Edge Drivers
  1. Significant Memory optimizations
In sum these changes represent cutting the memory used by running drivers on the system in half. In practice this means all hubs upon receiving the firmware should be able to support double the number of drivers and devices. The exact gains will somewhat depend on the devices and drivers being used. These changes should be fully backwards compatible and automatically apply to all existing drivers. Some, like the new method for subdriver loading, will require driver changes to fully utilize the new savings, but the existing methods will continue to work, they just wont see the same benefits.
  1. Add lazy_load_subdriver_v2 option that allows for a different subdriver structure to further limit memory usage of subdrivers
  2. Split some commonly required files up (e.g. st.utils) so that only the functions being used are in memory so some previous functionality may be in new files
  3. Remove device event state cache from lua. Instead if get_latest_state is called the value will be loaded from the hub, and after that point will continue to cache events generated from the driver, but only for values that have been requested via get_latest_state
  4. Additional structural changes to optimize memory footprint.
  1. Other Driver Changes
  1. On startup enforce parent devices being sent the init lifecycle event before children allowing children that depend on parent information to not have to handle cases where the parent is not yet present.
  2. Extend the latency improvements for default handlers to Zigbee Light Link (ZLL) devices
  1. Deprecation Notice
  1. For Zigbee devices, the monitored_attribute feature is being deprecated. There are other systems in place for tracking when we last heard from a device and updating the attributes, so duplicating that effort in the driver was both memory and cpu expensive but unnecessary. For now a warning will be added to documentation and on calling functions related to monitored_attributes and the release where these will be fully removed hasn’t been decided yet, but developers should remove usage when they next update their drivers.

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