# Vacation Help

**URL:** <https://community.smartthings.com/t/vacation-help/118090>\
**Category:** SmartApps & Automations\
**Created:** [February 7, 2018, 12:24am UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/vacation-help/118090 "2018-02-07T00:24:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![jmac1604](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/db5fbb/32.png) [@jmac1604](https://community.smartthings.com/u/jmac1604)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2018, 12:24am UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/vacation-help/118090/1 "2018-02-07T00:24:48Z")

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Hello,

I was browsing the smart apps and no longer see the Vacation Director that ST at one time had.

Any way to get this back? Any guidance on how I can control my smart home while on vacation?

Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![marktheknife](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@marktheknife](https://community.smartthings.com/u/marktheknife)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2018, 1:42am UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/vacation-help/118090/2 "2018-02-07T01:42:31Z")

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Assuming you mean vacation lighting director, it was retired by ST.

The source code can still be installed manually on your hub if you’d like.

> <https://github.com/SmartThingsCommunity/SmartThingsPublic/blob/5341d0d06f0c6e81b035a8d09aa4313a089c6ed7/smartapps/tslagle13/vacation-lighting-director.src/vacation-lighting-director.groovy>

I think most people would use WebCoRE to get a similar kind of automation working now that vacation lighting director is unsupported.

You could probably use a piston created by someone else. The WebCoRE forum is the best place to ask about pistons that people have created to share with others.

> **[webCoRE Community Forum](https://community.webcore.co)**
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> This is the community forum for the web-enabled Community's own Rule Engine