SmartThings starting to feel like Homeseer?

[bravenel (Bruce)]

@Gary_Oberbrunner

If ST exposed those basics directly, with rules, so you could directly say “When minimote switch 1 pressed, turn on bedroom lights 1 and 2 to 50%”, with a screen to list all your current rules, most of the current UI complexity would evaporate. Even more complex relations like "When is present AND it’s after AND , turn on to <50%> AND turn on to <35%> AND play " would be possible and not the jump-off-a-cliff-and-learn-groovy that they are now. Custom groovy programs would be reduced to custom conditions (“it’s after sunset”) and actions (“play music”); everything else is just standard device control and logic ops (AND/OR).

All of this has been implemented in Rule Machine and Trigger Happy!