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dawn123 · September 13, 2017, 10:46am

Hi all,
new here happy to see you all.

Cobra · September 15, 2017, 10:27am

Welcome

alex_mercer · September 22, 2017, 10:45am

I’m new too!

Cobra · September 22, 2017, 11:38am

Then I shall say welcome to you too

To both of you I would add a link to check out… written by our main SmartThings’ information ‘Gurus’ @JDRoberts

This makes interesting reading:

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

(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 …

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