Is Rule Machine my only option?

[JDRoberts]

@bwall244

I’ve just started diving deeper into ST and really getting down to the things that I want to accomplish and by my previous reading Rule Machine was the answer to those things. With RM gone what are my options? I want specific events to trigger(routines?) based on things like arrival, but have those things only occur if arrival occurs at a specific time of day OR not at all if its at the wrong time. Is there a work around to have multiple conditions? DO I need to look into moving to something like Vera to accomplish this?

The following should help. It was written before rule machine existed.

A Short Intro to Scheduling/Device Control/Rules in SmartThings Classic

(March 2018: All of the following applies only to the SmartThings Classic app. If you purchased your hub after March 1, 2018 and are using the new “SmartThings (Samsung Connect)” app, creating rules works differently.) You’ve got your hub. You’ve got some devices. Now how do you schedule what happens when? SmartThings doesn’t have a rules engine/scheduler, so there’s no one tutorial for how to do this. But it’s an open platform, and there are about 12 different ways to set up various kinds of schedules. Some require custom code, some don’t. A “scheduler” in this context is anything that causes a networked device to perform an action, even if it’s just to toggle on or off immediately. (Network engineering definition, forgive me. ) (Note: as of April 2017, the original author of …

And remember that rule machine was written within the SmartThings environment. It was written by one (obviously extremely talented) community developer using the existing tools. Nothing was hacked or extended. So all of its capabilities still exist in the SmartThings platform, it’s just that rule machine packaged them very nicely. It was a great accomplishment, but its absence doesn’t mean those capabilities are lost as well.