# Help with some basic.... things? **URL:** \ **Category:** Automation Ideas\ **Created:** [September 15, 2016, 2:49pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/help-with-some-basic-things/57550 "2016-09-15T14:49:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mew1033](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/smartthings/user_avatar/community.smartthings.com/mew1033/32/37995_2.png) [@mew1033](https://community.smartthings.com/u/mew1033)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 2:49pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/help-with-some-basic-things/57550/1 "2016-09-15T14:49:40Z")
I’m brand new in the smartthings world. Just got mine set up last night! Woo hoo! I’ve got a few questions. 1. Is there a way to set up a Routine or use Smart Home Monitor (or something) to alert on movement from a single motion sensor? And have the alert go to a single user in the Family? I don’t want to enable the whole home “armed” status. It’s basically to watch a kid sleeping and alert if he gets up and starts walking around. 2. I want to use a combination of a temperature sensor and outlet to keep the temperature in a room at or above a certain point. But not all the time. So for example, from 6:00-8:00am, if the temp reported from a multipurpose (or motion) sensor falls below 75°, then turn on the outlet. Once the temp gets to or above 75, turn the outlet off. Keep that schedule going until 8:00, then stop. ---
**Author:** ![marktheknife](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@marktheknife](https://community.smartthings.com/u/marktheknife)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2016, 3:00pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/help-with-some-basic-things/57550/2 "2016-09-15T15:00:41Z")
> [@mew1033](#): > > 1. Is there a way to set up a Routine or use Smart Home Monitor (or something) to alert on movement from a single motion sensor? And have the alert go to a single user in the Family? I don’t want to enable the whole home “armed” status. It’s basically to watch a kid sleeping and alert if he gets up and starts walking around. Yes. Go to Smart Home Monitor’s settings, and create a new “custom” monitoring rule. Select whatever motion sensor you want, and set the rule to send an sms message to a specific mobile phone when it’s triggered. > [@mew1033](#): > > 1. I want to use a combination of a temperature sensor and outlet to keep the temperature in a room at or above a certain point. But not all the time. So for example, from 6:00-8:00am, if the temp reported from a multipurpose (or motion) sensor falls below 75°, then turn on the outlet. Once the temp gets to or above 75, turn the outlet off. Keep that schedule going until 8:00, then stop. I’m not sure if you could do that with an officially supported smartapp. I’m sure the community-created app CoRE could, although I’ve heard it’s not always that intuitive for rules with more complicated conditions. There’s another topic on this forum for discussing how to set CoRE to do your bidding (the developer calls rules in CoRE “pistons”). ---
**Author:** ![Cael](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/smartthings/user_avatar/community.smartthings.com/cael/32/34020_2.png) [@Cael](https://community.smartthings.com/u/Cael)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 2:08pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/help-with-some-basic-things/57550/3 "2016-09-16T14:08:30Z")
> [@mew1033](#): > > 1. I want to use a combination of a temperature sensor and outlet to keep the temperature in a room at or above a certain point. But not all the time. So for example, from 6:00-8:00am, if the temp reported from a multipurpose (or motion) sensor falls below 75°, then turn on the outlet. Once the temp gets to or above 75, turn the outlet off. Keep that schedule going until 8:00, then stop. You have an answer to question 1. So for question 2, the only thing I can find in native Smart Apps would require you to set up different modes. So if you had a Mode from 6-8, then a different Mode, it should work. This would be under Marketplace - Smart Apps - Climate Control - Virtual Thermostat. So if you don’t mind creating custom modes, then this will do fine. If you don’t want custom modes if they will interfere with other things, then you might want to look at something a little more complex but a lot more customizable like CoRe. > [@CoRE - this is where you find it](https://community.smartthings.com/t/core-this-is-where-you-find-it/53657): > > This thread is here for everyone to have a starting point. Follow the links below. Post in those threads, not here. Download the smartapp from here: This is the documentation: (under construction) [http://thingsthataresmart.wiki/index.php?title=CoRE](http://thingsthataresmart.wiki/index.php?title=CoRE) Get help here: And this is the guy that makes the magic: @ady624 > [@CoRE for Dummies (How to get started and make your first Piston)](https://community.smartthings.com/t/core-for-dummies-how-to-get-started-and-make-your-first-piston/55214): > > This is a noob’s post created by a noob. EDIT: 9/9/16 updated some links and added some newer info (Amazon’s Alexa, etc.) EDIT: 9/10/16 updated some key info not mentioned in the install links I’ve started this not because I know a bunch about CoRE (Community’s own Rules Engine), in fact it’s quite the opposite. Instead I’m just pulling together some helpful tips which got me get started and got me up and running with this outstanding rule engine for Smartthings. There is a lot info out there mainly designed to help people do amazing things with CoRE, but it was hard to find the “for Dummies” type info. And very hard for me (a true noob) to get started. Hopefully this post will help others who may not have ever added a custom smartapp to the IDE or maybe never even have had to log i… But maybe somone else knows an App that might trigger an outlet based on Time and temp sensor??