Vacation Lighting Alternatives?

[JDRoberts]

If you have a pro subscription to the third-party app, SharpTools, ($30/year at the time of this writing for the pro level), it has a randomizer, and one community member is using it as a vacation lighting Director alternative:

Vacation Lighting & SharpTools

Howdy, Like many folks in here, I’ve been missing Vacation Lighting since the switch to Edge. I didn’t have time to figure out how to create a custom Edge driver/routine/app, so dug into SharpTools a bit more. I have a solution that is a bit kludgy, but it seems to work and honestly, I think it provides more randomness (in a good way) than what I had with Vacation Lighting Director (albeit with more setup). Pros Control start/stop times based on your SmartThings modes Randomize when lights turn on/off Randomize which lights turn on/off Randomize how many lights turn on/off Cons A little more complex setup than a SmartApp Have to pay for SharpTools subscription (~$30/year) to support the custom variables Anyhoo, wanted to share my SharpTools setup here for others… Step 1 Create …