How to set up home to randomly turn lights on and off when on vacation?

There are a couple of custom smart apps that can do this, including the popular “vacation light director.”

If you haven’t used custom code with smartthings before, it’s pretty straightforward. Basically you copy someone else’s code and paste it into your account. Here’s the FAQ for that process:

If after looking that over it sounds like something you’d like to try, you can check the quick browse list for “lighting” under smart apps in the community created wiki and see the various custom code that community members have contributed. “Vacation Light director” should be in there.

http://thingsthataresmart.wiki/index.php?title=How_to_Quick_Browse_the_Community-Created_SmartApps_Forum_Section

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