Is it possible to have sub locations (master bedroom, living room) that reference the hub and devices available to the house? I don’t need access to all my devices from all rooms. Thanks

Yes, go to things and drag the icons for a room over each other. It will create a group that you can name according to whatever process you use to name (SMILE)

Thanks but you described making a group I think, which isn’t what I wanted at all. If I worded my post badly, I want to use Locations to ringfence some Things as room by room sub-Locations. I don’t want Things from other rooms cluttering that room. Edit: while I save for my beach house, tech startu…

Well I use the groups to place things together per room, and then use the shortcuts on the primary screen for lights, movement sensor, etc. as a whole. I suspect that I am not understanding what you are looking to do here. But, I want to help. What I think of when you state that you want “to use …

Thanks for the kind post. The problem I have with groups is two fold. The main issue is that using groups is does not ring fence things. A worked example would be that a guest bedroom Location should not allow a guest accidental access to the master bedroom lighting. With groups there is no way t…

[image] joylove: a guest bedroom Location should not allow a guest accidental access to the master bedroom lighting Most of this would refer to this as permissions, which is currently not supported in SmartThings. Check out Web Dashboard 2.0 for a very elegant alternative.

Thanks that looks like one to watch. I kinda liked the smarthings UI though, in fact that’s why I bought it.

Wow you and I are agreeing al lot today, it must be something that I ate this morning (SMILE). Yes, I agree with Scott here, I use this application as well, and it would be simple to implement your needs with this application. Remember that you can run the SmartApp multiple times, and with each ru…

Sub locations with smartthings?

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scottinpollock (Scott) October 7, 2014, 12:01am 6

Most of this would refer to this as permissions, which is currently not supported in SmartThings. Check out Web Dashboard 2.0 for a very elegant alternative.

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