So, I have several Cree LED bulbs. I would like to have different bulbs go on or off depending on the time of day. Right now, I have set up routines and renamed them to different times of day. I must manually execute these routines. What I would like to do is have those routines executed automatically at the specified times of day. I don’t necessarily have to use “routines” if there is a better solution.
Thanks for your help.
Make house look occupied when we are away?
danno6
(Danny )
#1
dalec
(Dale C)
#2
Vacation Lighting Director may be what you are looking for? This app can be used to make your home seem occupied anytime you are away from your home.
It is a stock app in Marketplace/Lights & Switches by @slagle to randomly turn on/off lights to simulate the appearance of an occupied home while you are away.
danno6
(Danny )
#4
I went to Marketplace/Lights & Switches but did not find any app. I did a search and found a page of code at Github. I have no idea what to do with code. 
dalec
(Dale C)
#5
Sorry I must have installed mine not knowing it was a custom app. If you need help in installing custom smartapps see @JDRoberts FAQ: An Overview of Using Custom Code in SmartThings here.
ghesp
(Greg)
#6
It’s definitely in that section as I’m looking at it right now.
Scroll down, its the 7th in the list
JDRoberts
#7
Make sure you are looking under “smart apps” not under “things.”
- Open the mobile app
Two) select the marketplace asterisk icon at the bottom right of the screen
- choose “smartapps” at the top of the screen
- choose the “lights and switches” category
- scroll down until you see “vacation lighting director”
U3gRJLfQiF9C
(ecksomperudenlign)
#9
The Vacation Lighting Director never worked properly for me. It always work on the first day then stopped after that. By reading the posts from New App: Vacation Light Director. I am not the only one and I think you need 2 modes to trigger the app and it will work properly. I ended up using the Smart Lighting from the marketplace. It gave me some randomness based on the sunset\sunrise ± the time. I do need to setup for each light, more control for me though.
prjct92eh2
(Jimmy)
#11
Vacation Lighting Director didn’t work for me when installed from the ST store. I then used te code below and it worked great
slagle
(Tim Slagle)
#12
I updated the app recently to take care of some of the edge cases @U3gRJLfQiF9C was talking about.
bobbles
(Bob)
#13
Hi.
Does this automatically update the code or do I need to start again or perhaps open the smartapp and click done to get it to update to the latest version.
slagle
(Tim Slagle)
#14
If you installed it through the marketplace it will automatically update it.
There are some new features though so check those out. 
dshokouhi
#15
@slagle is there any way to currently tell when a smartapp in the marketplace gets an update?
slagle
(Tim Slagle)
#16
I was just thinking about this actually. There isn’t currently, but this conversation started me thinking about how we could do that.
slagle
(Tim Slagle)
#18
It’d definitely different but not largely. Biggest difference is time is now an additional trigger instead of just mode.
whoismoses
(Eric)
#19
On occasion I snoop around peoples github accounts for interesting SmartApps or to learn how to do certain things. I came across this today and figured I’d give it a post. I don’t know if it works, but it was updated in May 2016.
JDRoberts
#20
There’s an author thread for the Home Alone smartapp in the community-created smartapps section of the forum.
Another good way to see what code has been contributed the community is to use the quick browse lists in the community-created wiki. Lots of good stuff there. 