Is Smartthings for me?

[JDRoberts]

(I’ve moved this to projects so you can get very detailed responses on your specific set up and priorities.)

I think the short answer is if you’re happy with what you have now, you probably don’t need to add smartthings to the mix. Especially since most of the devices you listed don’t have native integration with SmartThings, so getting it all to work together would be pretty complicated.

The main reason to use SmartThings is if you want to have much more complex logic. See the following:

How to Get Started Creating Complex Rules in SmartThings

(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 the SmartThings platform was the wide variety of devices that it supported. However, by the end of 2017 several competing platforms had caught up in that regard. Where SmartThings still holds a significant advantage over some of the other low-cost home automation solutions is in the ability to really build really complex rules in a fairly simple manner. You won’t have to be a programmer, but you may need the help of other community members to get the logic constructed just right. Also, you …

But you may not need any of that.