Welcome!
First things first: this community is specifically for users of the Samsung SmartThings â„¢ Home Automation platform. So all of the questions and answers are in that context.
It is a very busy forum, so it often comes up near the top of General Home Automation searches on google, but it is not a general forum. So if you aren’t planning to use the Samsung SmartThings platform, you will probably be better off on a more general site.
Reddit has some good subforums on home Automation.
https://www.reddit.com/r/homeautomation/
And if you like top level discussions before you get into the the technical details, the Ambient has some very good articles:
There are a number of other good sites as well depending on your particular interests.
I also wrote a long post here about questions to ask yourself before starting a Home Automation project that might be of interest:
If you are planning to use the Samsung platform, we’ll need to know what model SmartThings ™ Hub you are using.