Welcome! 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.
There’s also a community created wiki, although it’s just getting started and doesn’t have that many articles yet, but the ones that it has are often helpful.
http://thingsthataresmart.wiki/index.php?title=ThingsThatAreSmart_Wiki
The FAQ subsection of the Devices category of this forum is also good:
https://community.smartthings.com/c/devices-integrations/faq
And of course the official support knowledgebase:
Beyond that, you just have to search the forums and see what you find. But many people will be happy to help.
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