Triggering an Event at a Specific Time?

[JDRoberts]

Welcome! SmartThings is very versatile, but unfortunately, as you’ve discovered, not very intuitive.

Since you have a technical background, you’re going to have the most options with core:

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 [image] The original version of CoRE Has now been replaced by a new version, WebCoRE, which moves the data entry to a web interface.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

There are other ways to do it as well, and you might want to also take a look at the welcome FAQ:

JD's Welcome FAQ

Lots of new folks coming in, and I wrote this post about a month ago as a welcome to someone new who was interested in finding multiple resources. Since it should also be of interest to other new folks who like to read a lot, here it is. ( I’m also going to add it to the community created wiki. That way If This post gets out of date, other people can update it in the wiki. Welcome FAQ in the Community-Created Wiki. ) Welcome! As far as resources, there are two FAQs you might find helpful. Getting Started This one is the intro to scheduling: And this one explains how custom code is used in SmartThings. You don’t need to use custom code, but there’s a lot of it available, and it can add many features to the base system. In addition, check out the quick browse lists for Pr…