Routines triggering incorrectly?

[JDRoberts]

I know you’re new so you may have a posting limit, but if you can show screenshots of your routines it would help a lot.

Also, you can do everything you want to with one automation if you use core. It’s sort of like a scripting language for SmartThings. Very powerful and particularly good for “if A then B unless C” kind of stacked conditionals. So you might want to just jump straight into that because you’ll end up with a much more elegant solution. Set up is more complex, but there are a lot of community members who will be glad to help you with it if needed.

FAQ: What is WebCoRE? (And what was CoRE?)

CoRE (now WebCore) is a very powerful community – created rules engine for SmartThings. It allows you to set up stacked conditionals like “If A then B but only while C and not if D.” Setting it up can be quite complex, but there are many community members who will be glad to help you. For example, here is a piston that one member created to notify him if the dog had already been fed twice that day and he picked up the dog bowl for a third time. He needed this because he has a large family and people didn’t always remember whose turn it was to feed the dog. [image] The original version of CoRE Has now been replaced by a new version, WebCoRE, which moves the data entry to a web interface. This allows for flexibility and an architecture that requires more memory than is av…