Turn this light on when this door opens and other multiple triggers?

[steve040805 (Steve)]

Hi,

I am fairly new to ST and have not got into coding enough to be able to create my own Smart App. So I thought I would reach out to the community.

What I am looking for is a way to create a Routine or an App whichever it would be called that turns on lights when all the following triggers occur:

1. Someone just arrived causing the system to switch from Away mode to another mode like Disarmed (Don’t want this to happen if someone is already home)
2. This specific door opens
3. It is after sunset

Then I would also like the option to have the lights automatically turn off after “x” minutes.

For a scenario example, we have a floor light that we keep on when we are away so that when we get home after dark we can see when entering the house without having to turn on all the other lights right away. I want this light to be off while we are gone and when we first arrive and open a specific door it turns on but then turns off again after say 5 minutes.

I appreciate any and all help.

Thanks,
Steve

[bobbles (Bob)]

Personally I use CoRE for all my home automation stuff.
It is very versatile.
Do a search on 'CoRE ’ and you will find numerous threads on how to install and getting peer assistance in setting things up.

[tons_of_guns]

@bobbles

Personally I use CoRE for all my home automation stuff.

Yup. Core will do all that and more

[JDRoberts]

As others have suggested, core. Here’s the short FAQ (this 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 [image] The original version of CoRE Has now been replaced by a new version, WebCoRE, which moves the data entry to a web interface.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…

[steve040805 (Steve)]

Thanks for the information! I am going to check out CoRE. Don’t be surprised if you see me post in the peer assistance area about this if I can’t figure it out, but I am hoping I will be able to stumble my way through it.

[RLDreams (Really Living the Dream)]

@steve040805

that turns on lights when all the following triggers occur:

Someone just arrived causing the system to switch from Away mode to another mode like Disarmed (Don’t want this to happen if someone is already home)
This specific door opens
It is after sunset

While CoRe has it’s uses, What you want can easily be done with the native SmartLighting.

[JDRoberts]

@RLDreams

@steve040805

that turns on lights when all the following triggers occur:

Someone just arrived causing the system to switch from Away mode to another mode like Disarmed (Don’t want this to happen if someone is already home)
This specific door opens
It is after sunset

While CoRe has it’s uses, What you want can easily be done with the native SmartLighting.

Look again…The OP is saying “mode” but the example given is for smart home monitor armed status, not mode.

Smartlighting doesn’t trigger off of SHM armed status.

[JDRoberts]

BTW, A lot of people get confused between the terms “mode” and the smart home monitor armed status, particularly because each has a value called “Home” even though they are completely different things.

The following thread should clear it up for anyone who is confused:

FAQ: Armed/Disarmed states vs Away/Home modes confusion

Hello, I’m brand new to SmartThings, and I’m trying to configure Smart Home Monitor to alert not just on door open/close sensors and motion sensors, but also on certain vibration sensors when it is in the Armed state. I can’t find a way to do that. I can use Custom to make a vibration alert based on Away/Home/Night “modes”, but these appear to be totally separate from the Armed/Disarmed states. Am I missing something?

[steve040805 (Steve)]

I have tried creating my own routine and that gets me close but there is no ability to turn off after “x” minutes and it reads that if any of the triggers occur where I want all triggers to occur to qualify. I also tried Smart Lights SmartApp and it gives an option for a trigger if you have a light sensor, but I do not that is why I wanted to use Sunset as one of the multiple triggers.