Changing a plugins device type

What is (or is there) the proper way to change a devices type? I have a plugin that currently defines its device as "custom" but I want to change it to "relay", so I changed the devices.xml appropriately just to see what happened to my existing "custom" devices that were already defined in Indigo and they didn't change (and I honestly didn't expect them to really). Of course if I add a new device it will pick up that its a relay, but the old ones stay at custom.

I tried

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dev.stateListOrDisplayStateIdChanged()

but that didn't do the trick.

Would my only recourse be to, in code, read through my devices and re-create them and then delete the existing ones (again in code)? While not an unsurmountable, yet bulky, way to do it this would not easily take into account other things tied to that device like control pages or action groups.

Again, bulky, but I could pull the device dependencies and try to do it that way but figured there might be a super secret way to do this in my plugin code. Super secret also equates to 'stuff thats in the wiki that I couldn't find because I'm dumb' by the way .

[matt (support)]

Take a look at this thread for the API (and technique) you'll want to try. Good luck and note you'll be using an API that doesn't have a ton of QA hours behind it. I do believe I've used it a few times though...

Thanks Matt, I'll give that a whirl!