Coming over to ST from ISY

[JDRoberts]

(Welcome! I’ve moved this over to projects so you can get individualized responses based on your own set up. We do have some community members who have experience with Insteon, so they may also be able to answer specific questions on differences if any come up.)

As far as core, yes, it’s basically a scripting language for SmartThings. If you have a technical background you should definitely take a look at it.

FAQ: What is WebCoRE? (And what was CoRE?)

CoRE (now WebCore) is a very powerful community – created rules engine for SmartThings. It allows you to set up stacked conditionals like “If A then B but only while C and not if D.” Setting it up can be quite complex, but there are many community members who will be glad to help you. For example, here is a piston that one member created to notify him if the dog had already been fed twice that day and he picked up the dog bowl for a third time. He needed this because he has a large family and people didn’t always remember whose turn it was to feed the dog. [image] The original version of CoRE Has now been replaced by a new version, WebCoRE, which moves the data entry to a web interface. This allows for flexibility and an architecture that requires more memory than is av…

On the devices, I’m not quite sure what you’re asking. The smart things hub is a single white plastic box that includes a certified Z wave plus controller, a certified zigbee home automation (ZHA) coordinator, and an ethernet connector so it can communicate with the SmartThings cloud. Through the cloud, you could set up integration with pretty much anything that has an open API or and IFTTT service. For example, there is an official Lutron Caseta integration which is cloud to cloud. So smartthings does have one of the widest selection of potential candidates for any device as long as you’re willing to use community – create a custom code to enable it. Different things will work for different people, it just depends on what features you need.

There is also a community – created integration with some Insteon devices if you want to take a look at that in case you can repurpose anything. It’s a fairly complex integration so I don’t think anyone would use it if they didn’t already have Insteon, but if you do it might be worth checking out.

There’s a list of supported protocols in the community – created wiki:

http://thingsthataresmart.wiki/index.php?title=Supported_Network_Protocols

If you’re looking for recommendations on specific devices, you might start with the device class features FAQ, as that should help narrow down your search:

Bulbs, switches and sensors, oh my....what to buy (device class features FAQ)

So, I’m pretty new to this internet of things world. Originally bought 2 OSRAM tunable LED bulbs with the Wemo Hub and a WEMO insight switch, now I’ve “upgraded” the hub to the SmartThings hub, and looking at ditching the WEMO insight switch for the SmartThings plug, just so I have have support now and not have to wait or deal with adding custom code to the IDE. I’m on Amazon and etc pretty much every day trying to decide what I want to play around with next, or what’s better, etc. I’m here to see what your opinons/preferences are for plugs bulbs sensors: motion, open/close and temp It’s a confusing world out there…Just for bulbs I’m finding LIFX, WEMO, OSRAM, GE Link, Phillips Hue, Cree. For plugs I’m finding WEMO, SmartThings, Aeon Labs, GE…etc It’s hard to decide which is the way…