A few tutorials and links to start

[April (April Wong)]

@JDRoberts has a great explanation about Modes and Hello Home Actions in a coder’s POV and how it affects the end-user.

Brand new to ST, first thing I discovered: modes are tricky. Wrote an app

Welcome to the group! SmartThings can be great fun for people who enjoy coding, it’s a very flexible developer platform. From a coder viewpoint: Mode functions as a global mutable state variable. So you can change it from a lot of different places and then it’s available everywhere. And yes, if you’re not careful it will break your heart, because one process may have changed it before another one checks it. (And it can be very hard to debug because an error may depend on which process happened to complete first.) Mode can only have one value at a time, but you can add more values if needed. And you can make mode one of the schedule controllers and change the mode at the end of the action, like changing mode from At Home to Away. Hello Home Actions are limited option scenes with…