How do you display current Phrase?

[geko]

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Thoughts on Modes

I got my smartthings last night and have been playing around with new apps today. My first instinct is that modes seem to be a little awkward.  Modes are mutually exclusive, so I need to define situations individually.  This means I need a mode for all possible situations. If I wanted to track both day vs. night and home vs. away, then I need four modes “Home - Day”, “Home - Night”, “Away - Day” and “Away - Night”. This is a bit cumbersome, but it would be alright if the apps could handle running against multiple modes. Instead I am limited to All Modes or a single Mode. Example: If I want the motion detector to send an SMS message when I am not home and it detects motion, I would need it to run in “Away - Day” and “Away - Night” but not the other two states. The only way I see to make thi…

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Are there scenes?

Greetings! I’m a brand new Smartthings user, but I’ve used home automation devices for about 15 years. In the case of Smartthings, I think that’s more of a hindrance than a benefit, because it looks like Smartthings is designed very differently from any of the solutions I’ve used before. Anyway, here’s my basic question, which for some reason I just can’t figure out: how do I set up a “scene?” I don’t know if ST calls them something else, but I’m coming from using Vera, where everything was pretty much divided into devices and scenes. This is limiting in some ways but exactly what I need in others. Most of the time, I don’t actually want my automation solution to think too much for me. Sometimes I just want to be able to hit a button and have all the lights in a room turn on to preset dim…