I have a door sensor that I’m using to trigger a “Meal Time” scenario. I want to have different lights on and Sonos stations playing in my kitchen area depending on the time of day when the Meal Time sensor is open. It seems like I could do this with a combination of Actions and Modes but there is…

Running through the different things built into ST this doesn’t sound possible other than using: [image] [OBSOLETE] Simple rule builder - now private Community Created SmartApps Developing for SmartThings has proven to be frustrating and un-fun. I am revoking public acce…

[image] MsFizz: I have a door sensor that I’m using to trigger a “Meal Time” scenario. I want to have different lights on and Sonos stations playing in my kitchen area depending on the time of day when the Meal Time sensor is open. It seems like I could do this with a combination of Actions an…

Thanks JD, I think that refers only to motions detectors. I’m using the SmartSense Open/Closed Sensor to indicate “Meal Time”.

Wow did you make this? Very cool! For my sensor though, only temperature seems to be a trigger option. I would like to trigger on open/close.

My bad. But then there is a different trick to it, the Hello Home Action can be set to run the lights based on the contact sensor only in specific modes. The only mildly confusing part is that for the HHA you list the modes when you do NOT want the HHA to run, rather than specifying the one when it…

Yeah I came across those too. So complicated. Why is this one exclusionary - the modes I don’t want? Weird. Kind of a mess. Guess I need to learn Groovy.

[image] MsFizz: Yeah I came across those too. So complicated. Why is this one exclusionary - the modes I don’t want? Weird. Kind of a mess. Guess I need to learn Groovy. Or use one of the two community created rules engines, they are both simple and powerful. [image] I wan…

Yeah that does look cool :smile: :thumbsup:

I wish I were that talented. Credit goes to @JoeC on that one. It is simple and it just works for all sort of scenarios that hello home is just too confusing or incapable of.

Door sensor triggering different sets of lights depending on Mode

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keithcroshaw (Keith Croshaw) May 26, 2015, 1:04am 2

Running through the different things built into ST this doesn’t sound possible other than using:

Which is awesome!

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