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[GSzabados (Gabor Szabados)]

Unfortunately the way how things are, ST is trying to reduce the load on the servers and in the future it will decommission the IDE complete. One of the side effects some stuff are not available anymore or not advised. Like, they are trying to steer away everybody from the Groovy SmartApps. For this, they offered the Rules API.

FAQ: Getting Started with the new Rules API

At SDC19, we previewed our new Rules Grammar and API that allows you to create simple and complex automations that can operate on the SmartThings cloud. In a future release of the API, local execution of rules on SmartThings hubs will be supported - making rules a great choice for those looking to create fast, stable and secure automations. We are excited to announce a few resources available for everyone to start testing: Introduction Video Rules Documentation Testing App (use the Show button) Example Rules We know you have will feedback and requests - we are working hard to add more features to the API (such as variables and expressions). Feel free to drop your ideas, questions, and comments here!

Advanced Automations with the Rules API

Advanced Rules API Tutorial We will use the rules API to create a trigger that will evaluate a condition then schedule to evaluate that condition again after a defined period of time. This rule could replace SmartApps like “Notify Me When” that were previously complex groovy apps. Requirements: Postman PAT Token Getting Started Open Postman and add your PAT token to the header [image] Refresher If you are new to the Rules API, you will need to supply the locationId you want to work with for most requests GET https://api.smartthings.com/v1/rules?locationId=yourID Will return a list of your existing rules Let’s Go Use Postman in a new tab to GET some device IDs. You will need to get a contact sensor and a light bulb. Once you have these, we are going to be sending a POST comman…

You should be able to do a lot with it.

Meanwhile you can use WebCore and Sharptools.io’s Rule Engine as well to do custom automations in many complicated ways.

Smart Lighting is an red hering. A lot of people likes it but Automations can replace it, even some cases with better options. But some cases it is a bit less…
You can still try to add it from the Classic app, maybe you will succeed from there.

Regarding the Gentle Wake Up, there is no replacement yet, and there isn’t any planned replacement unless somebody makes it for the new app, as you see, what you created in Classic is not changeable anymore in the the new app.