Smart disabling of Security?

[Rogue]

Hi,

I’m new to SmartThings, so please forgive me if I’m posting this in the wrong section.

I recently picked up a hub v2 and setup some motion sensors, door sensors, and a few other things. I’m still tweaking things to get them how I want them.

One scenario I was trying to account for was the following. There are multiple people in my house and I’m using cell phones to track their presence. At night, I usually set the security to Armed (Home). If someone is out of the house I’d like it to do the following:

-If Security is Armed Home and not everyone is home then
-when person arrives home change security status to disabled for X minutes (to allow person to enter the house)
-After X minutes change the security status back to Armed (Home)

Does something like this already exist? I tried searching for something similar but didnt have much luck. I’m also assuming something similar can be done with IFTTT, but I’d rather not use that if there is a built in option.

Thanks

[Navat604 (R.)]

You could do it but you have to use a smartapps called CoRE. Read up on it and plenty of people willing to help with CoRE.

[JDRoberts]

Welcome!

There are several different ways to do this, but at this point, I would just second @Navat604 's suggestion of Core.

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 [image] The original version of CoRE Has now been replaced by a new version, WebCoRE, which moves the data entry to a web interface.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…

[marktheknife (Mark)]

Also, you might be lucky in that your mobile presence sensing works very well for everyone in your household. But if your mobile presence detection is like most people’s, it’s sometimes unreliable and you could end up with your alarm going off at night because ST fails to recognize a user’s phone was within the geofence so your alarm doesn’t get disabled when the door opens. Just FYI.

[Rogue]

@Navat604

CoRE

Thanks guys, I’ll take a look at CoRE.

[logeox (David Hamilton)]

You could just as easily do this in a routine. I have a routine for Night and Goodnight. The system changes to Night routine at sunset. When I go to bed I set the system to Goodnight, If someone were to arrive via presence sensor then the system changes back to Night Routine. Now within in my Goodnight routine, there is an option at the bottom. After X amount of minutes of no activity then Set Goodnight routine. Activity is determined by my motion sensor. Then the system is armed again. Also if I forget to arm it, it will do so after X amount of minutes of no activity. I restrict this activity to Night Mode only.