A standalone device means it just sits alone and legacy status from HS3 days.
It is a bit confusing because HS4 also supports legacy HS3 devices which are used by older plugins. You can tell the difference by going to a device Status/Graphics tab and looking at the Advanced information (Device Version).
A HS4 device will be marked 4 and a HS3 device as 3.2
When you create a new HS4 device, it must be associated to a root device, so 2 devices are created; a root plus a feature. These are effectively grouped together. A root device cannot have controls.
With a HS3 device, no restrictions exist so you can have a standalone device with/without controls or have a parent and children both with/without controls.
The HS4 requirement to have both a Root/Feature is not popular with some users; especially for applications where a device is just used for status. To that end, they have copied/modified HS3 standalone devices which they had when they upgraded from HS3 to HS4.
To make life more flexible, I have created 2 utilities for creating HS3 and HS4 devices which gives you more control over this process:
For HS3 devices: https://forums.homeseer.com/forum/3r...reator-for-hs4
For HS4 devices: https://forums.homeseer.com/forum/3r...for-homeseer-4
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