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next issue i don’t understand
I have a sensor on my front door and i want the front porch light and sidewalk lights to turn on automatically when the door is opened at night. i don’t understand how to set the hours for which its to do that or if there is a setting for night, this part is much much more confusing than Vera as well but maybe i’m missing something
This is one of those areas were smart things is very powerful, but definitely not intuitive.
You don’t set the schedules on the device. Instead, you can have different schedules running for different situations. In particular, modes as @rangelsammon mentioned, but other things too, like who is home or whether a light is already on.
This should help:
(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.