Away home automation request

[techman05 (Chris Hunt)]

The wemo app used to have a built in automation to cycle the lights when in an away state to give the expectation that someone was home and hopefully make robbers think twices. Is there any automation scene to do this is samsung smart things app?

Thanks for the help

Note this question started here https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Samsung-Apps-and-Services/Is-there-an-out-of-town-automation-built-in/td-p/1521914

[nathancu (Nathan Curtis)]

Well, there’s about as many ways to do it as there are people on this forum. That said - nothing builtin by SmartThings themselves.

One is:

[OBSOLETE] Vacation Light Director

Occupancy light simulator will simulate your house being lived in even when you are not. Pick a set of lights and at a interval you specify the app will turn off all lights and then turn on a random set of lights. Nice things is you can restrict this to mode/time/day of week. It is always triggered by mode change but will not run outside of specific restrictions you set. Nice things is it will not run if someone is home and the mode changes. Thanks to @dave for testing!!! https://github.com/tslagle13/SmartThings/blob/master/Director-Series-Apps/Vacation-Lighting-Director/Vacation%20Lighting%20Director.groovy

You could also just create a series of other automations of various types. If you search on vacation automation I’m sure you will find MANY takes on this subject.

[techman05 (Chris Hunt)]

Is this already prebuilt on the smartthings app to be added to my automations like amazon home has all its built in apps. I was hoping that maybe they changed the name to something wierd and I couldn’t find it on a prebuilt list.

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