(This is a wiki post: feel free to edit it or add to it as needed. Also, I can’t take any screenshots since I can’t use the app at this time due to its incompatibility with voiceover, so feel free to add screenshots where they would be helpful.) At one point, one of the biggest advantages of using …

Agreed…he’s a god among children. :slight_smile:

Wow. On behalf of all users, thank you for the detailed write up, covering a lot of bases and options. Thank you.

[image] ady624: Wow. On behalf of all users, thank you for the detailed write up, covering a lot of bases and options. Thank you. Well, if you hadn’t written WebCoRE, there wouldn’t have been so much to write about! So the bases are mostly on you. LOL :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Thanks for this intro and summary @JDRoberts :+1: I learned several things that I didn’t know before :slightly_smiling_face:

Hi, Can you point me to the rules creator in Smartthings new app? “Note that the new V3 Version of the SmartThings mobile app has an official rules creator which does offer more stacked conditional options” Regards S

You access it anytime you “add an automation.“ So just click on the + in the upper right of the home screen and then choose automation. There is also a new “rules API“ which can do even more complex things, but it’s still in development. :sunglasses:

Thanks @JDRoberts ! I was confused with the wording Rules Creator and thought that Rules api was already implemented. So within Smartthings, Automation = Official Rules Creator There are also features like Smart Lighting Scenes Webcore Rules Engine Smartthings Home Monitor All of them have ‘…

[image] chartered: All of them have ‘If A then B function’ and some have more complex ones. Are there plans to merge all these functionalities into 1 single smartapp? Webcore is unofficial, community-created, And the official equivalent is the new rules API. So it will remain standalone. As …

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cozdabuch ( Cosmo) December 16, 2017, 8:15pm 2

Incredible writeup @JDRoberts. This will be highly beneficial for prospective and new members!

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