Step by step Automation

[JDRoberts]

The easiest way to do this would be through Webcore, which allows you to set up very complex rules. It’s very popular, and there are many people who will be glad to help you create the rules you want. They even have their own forum.

See the community FAQ (The topic title is a clickable link):

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 [image] The original version of CoRE Has now been replaced by a new version, WebCoRE, which moves the data entry to a web interface.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

You might also be able to eventually do this with the official “rules API“ but it’s still in development and for now, Webcore will probably be easier to use.