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

[tslagle13 (Tim Slagle)]

Really cool man! Check this out as well! I think you and I wrote the same app lol. Welcome to the community! Cool app:).

Feel free to steal anything from my app if it helps you:)

Hello, Home Phrase Director - Control modes (through hello home phrases) based on occupancy and "sun state"

A lot of peope have had interest in this app over the last few weeks. Setting up a dedicated thread for it. Magic home allows for four hello home scenes to be run based on 2 conditions. 1) Occupancy of your home 2) the current “sun state”. This allows for you to have a sunrise and sunset mode for when your home is occupied and not occupied. I currently have mine setup like this. Away Day - Will trigger when everyone is away and the sun is up Away Night - Will trigger when everyone is away and the sun is down Home Day - Will trigger when someone is home and the sun is up Home Night - Will trigger when someone is home and the sun is down Everything is automated and it will trigger on each event. So everytime the “sun state” changes it will check to see if anyone is home as well as e…