I happily unpacked my Smartthings hub V2 and in 15 minutes I have a zwave bulbs and dimmers migrated over from my old Wink. They turn on and off, dim without any issue.
But how do I schedule them? I went through the iPhone app 5 times - there is nothing about scheduling. I google it - and I see screenshots and videos of something I don’t have - populated Dashboard!
Unfortunately my dashboard instead of device list has a blue circle with a house in the middle and text “Keep your home safe and sound with Smart Home Monitor”. I refreshed, restarted the app, reinstalled the app, restarted the hub… No luck.
How do I automate anything with Smartthings? E.g how do I make an outdoor light to turn on at sunset and turn off at midnight? When I google it, all I see is “go to dashboard”.
You can do some rule building/sxheduling with the official smartapp smart lighting. Click the star in lower right then click on the smartapp tab. Smart lighting will be under smartthings recommends
I have four routines set to trigger events on a schedule set to times.
Good Morning - turns on two lights, sets temp to 82 cool
Goodbye - turns off all lights, set temp to 85 cooling, motion turns on three lights
I’m Back- turns on one light, temp to 83 cooling
Sleep (I renamed it from Goodnight) - turns off all lights, temp to 80 cooling, motion turns on two lights
Thanks a lot for your replies. Smartthings might be lacking in app usability, but thats more than compensated by responsive and knowledgeable community.
I spent couple hrs on my new hub yesterday and was amazed by framework architecture and flexibility. With very little effort I got:
Lights scheduled via official smartapp - thanks for help!
My 5-year-old WiFi (no zwave) Radio Thermostats show up as fully functional devices, thanks to a custom device handler I found in these forums
Another custom device handler - URI switch - made it a breeze to add my Raspberry-pi based Fujitsu mini-split AC control and even link it to the Radio Thermostat!
Next on todo list: Siri integration via Homebridge.
What didn’t work: i had big plans for double-tap actions on GE dimmers, however none work. I’ll be posting questions to appropriate category…