Grouping Devices in the Things Category

[JDRoberts]

@miketx

How do you have a group of just 1 device? I haven’t been able to figure it out. The “group” function only seems to work when you press/hold a device and drag it on top of another device. Then you get the request to name the grouping.

My bad–there are different kinds of device groups in smartthings. There are shortcut groups which can include a group of one, and then there are the groups that appear on the things screen. The shortcut groups do display text, which is useful, but it’s a different screen in the mobile app.

Setting up Shortcut Groups in the Old Mobile App (Not Used After Sept. 2015)

SHORTCUT GROUPS WERE REPLACED IN THE SEPTEMBER 2015 VERSION OF THE MOBILE APP BY “SMART LIGHTS,” AN EVEN MORE POWERFUL AND MUCH MORE INTUITIVE WAY OF SETTING UP LIGHTING RULES. I will leave this post up for a few more weeks to give everyone time to transition over to the new mobile app. But pretty much everything below this line will no longer apply once you do you have the new mobile app version. Instead, see the “How to Group Lights” article in the community-created wiki. http://thingsthataresmart.wiki/index.php?title=How_to_Group_Lights_Together One of the most powerful features in the SmartThings mobile app is the use of Shortcut Groups. There are literally dozens of built in features for scheduling groups, from “turn off after X minutes” to “turn on when someo…