Use pocket socket energy reporting to trigger state change?

[JDRoberts]

By “state change” do you mean change the mode? Change the smart home monitor armed status? Or?

In any case, you shouldn’t need a virtual switch for this if you use 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 [image] The original version of CoRE Has now been replaced by a new version, WebCoRE, which moves the data entry to a web interface.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…

If you don’t want to use Core, you can use a virtual switch, but in this case I think Core will be a little more straightforward.