The Fault in Our SmartThings Overall Architecture Logic – or how I learned to be confused by SmartApps and not-SmartApps

[JDRoberts]

@NorCalLights

Has anyone from ST actually confirmed that they are implementing such a rules engine? I know a lot of users have asked, but I don’t know if I’ve seen a “yeah, we agree and we’re working on that” from ST. Maybe @ben could point us in the right direction?

@ben has, a couple of times. For example, see this topic:

I want a rules engine, not apps

A rule-builder and SmartApps are not mutually exclusive. As mentioned in various other threads we plan to have both. Some SmartApps are and will be much too complex to build using a rule-builder. In fact, as soon as you get past basic nesting and conditional logic the integration face becomes c meets one in many cases. We are still working it but there is a reason it is IFTTT.com and not IFTATBNT.com (if this and this but not that).