Do you think SmartThings is "smart"?

[geko]

@scottinpollock

No Scenes? A staple of Z-Wave since its introduction, and labeled as “action groups” from as far back as the dawn of Insteon and even x10.

Just for the reference, there’s a long discussion about lack of scenes in SmartThings, so we don’t have repeat the same gripes here

Are there scenes?

Greetings! I’m a brand new Smartthings user, but I’ve used home automation devices for about 15 years. In the case of Smartthings, I think that’s more of a hindrance than a benefit, because it looks like Smartthings is designed very differently from any of the solutions I’ve used before. Anyway, here’s my basic question, which for some reason I just can’t figure out: how do I set up a “scene?” I don’t know if ST calls them something else, but I’m coming from using Vera, where everything was pretty much divided into devices and scenes. This is limiting in some ways but exactly what I need in others. Most of the time, I don’t actually want my automation solution to think too much for me. Sometimes I just want to be able to hit a button and have all the lights in a room turn on to preset dim…