Automate 3 zone HVAC system? And what’s the best way to learn the post – groovy rules system?

SmartApps & Automations Automation Ideas
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  1. One feature of The new system is called the “rules API“ and it supports much more complex logic than the rules engine that is built into the smartthings app, but it’s still in development and not fully documented. You can find more about it in the following section of the forum:
  1. Alternatively, under the new architecture you can write your own code in any language you want, but you also have to host it yourself. And then you communicate with smartthings via the REST API. Here’s one thread with an example of that approach:

Simple SmartApp Tutorial (SmartApp SDK)

  1. There are also some community members who are now using node red flows with a lot of success. Again, you have to host them yourself and then communicate via the API. you can find some discussion of this option in the following thread. (Note that the link I’m giving you will be discussing it with at least awareness of the new platform that is coming. Earlier discussions from 2019 and 2020 dealt with either Webcore or other groovy options which will be going away).

Node-Red and Smartthings - #41 by mwav3

  1. some community members are also using the Samsung Automation Studio with node red, but I haven’t looked into that option myself and I don’t know very much about it. Here’s the main link, and then you could ask more in this forum if you’re interested.

So there are several different options just depending on the route you want to take.

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