Becoming a Master at SmartThings webCoRE
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- With Stringify going away, you may be looking for another app for automating your SmartThings hub. In this video, I’ll explain webCoRE and how to get started with creating pistons to fine-tune your home automation.
WebCoRE can also send and receive IFTTT commands. I’ll show you the basics for getting started as I automate my own lights with motion sensors.
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Writer/Editor/Director: Reed Kleinman
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So...does webCoRE make more or less sense now? 👨💻
Smart Home Solver sounds like something that you would need hands on experience with. Maybe people should submit automation examples and have you walk through the webcore setup
It was very helpful and you examples as to why you would use it was great as well!
How do you connect it to your Hub or is it automatic? I guess this is a kind of passive webcore solution with nothing else than a motion sensor to activate it? :-)
Woohoo! Finally got webCoRE installed. Had a little bit of an issue getting to show on the SmartThings Classic app since I started with a Samsung account first instead of a ST. Had to log out of the ST classic app on my phone and remove my Samsung account from my phone, then log into the SmartThings website with my Samsung account, reinstall webCoRE, then log back into the ST classic app... and wahala, it worked! A huge thanks to Robin Winbourne and his video on how to install webCoRE!
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What a great video, I've ST for two years and never heard this before, thank you so much, regards from Mexico. Keep doing this WebCoRE series.
Thanks for sharing this video on Webcore. What will make it more usable is relating it to examples of different scenarios.
Thanks for this, but this was no beginners course that I was looking for. The speed you went through things was whizzed lol. Maybe a webcore for dummies series? (still liked though lol and already subbed :)
Nice. I have some pretty complex pistons like
announce all my device status when I come home to the last echo device used. I also use the presence sensor for other stuff like garage. I’m tempted to make a UA-cam series. It helps to be a software engineer :-)
How many devices do you have announced? I feel like if I did that it would take 30 minutes each time I come home... lol
Just the ones I care about. Front / Back door, thermostats, and lights
@@dgohuoba cool! I may try to setup something similar. I'd probably only have it announce things that are open to cut down on time because of the number of doors and windows I have
Thank you for a deeper dive into webcore! I learned a lot and I'm eager to get started.
webCoRE is pretty great and there is so much you can accomplish with it!
@@BeardedTechGuy since this post, I got moved into my new smart home and started with webcore about 48 hours ago. I'm already up to 15 pistons and I'm starting to increase their complexity. This is everything I didn't know I needed.
@@bradsbirds8502 that's awesome! It's really impressive just how powerful webCoRE is. It really can be overwhelming at first but luckily the community is pretty helpful and it's rewarding to get your pistons to finally work! I'm working on a few pretty cool things myself right now with webCoRE.
Would you do a whole series based on webcore such as like webcore for beginners because this is the first time I've ever heard of it?
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll see what I can do but I will for sure share examples that I use in videos in the future.
@@SmartHomeSolver thanks man it's just the variables and stuff I'm not sure on how to do all that so it would be easier for me if you were to do a beginner's series on the subject
Yes i agree on John Dyked request, i heard of it but so complicated ....but just go liitle bit slower for us who don't understand programming, but great video wish i could understand all, pity theres so little videos on webcore
We need this to happen! I don't know where to start. So many ideas, so little knowledge lol
@@jimmywoody6962 webCoRE seems overwhelming but once you get going it can be a very powerful automation tool!
where did you get that cool bat signal on your bookshelf ?
Excellent video - but, could you share the pistons? You've given me some ideas but they're a bit too advanced.
Cheers.
Hi may I know how u set the motion lights to turn off less than 10 seconds of inactive motion and if motion is active for more than 10 seconds the lights will stay on?
Reed great video. Would you mind sharing your piston on the kitchen light. Thxs. Keep the webCoRE ideas coming 😁
Thanks for this overview!
Glad it was helpful!
Can webCoRE trigger Alexa routines? Because that would be really cool.
What response times do people experience with WebCore? I had a button hooked up to a light bulb and the response could be anything from 3 to 10 seconds... Was there something I was missing? In the end I just ended up creating my own SmartApp directly on my hub where response is mostly instantaneous.
For the most part, all of my pistons (even the more complex ones) are pretty much instant. From time to time I do see a delay with more complex (double tap turn on or off 5 different lights) but that happens very rarely.
That's interesting, maybe it was the double clicking then. I have 2 Xiaomi Mijia buttons which I have hooked up to switch on 3 different lights independently - one click for one light, 2 for another, 3 for a third. But it also did a switch off of the other lights so if you click twice, light 2 switches on, 1 and 3 switch off. Maybe it's a bit complex for WebCore (although it doesn't feel complex to me).
@@SantaClaus3000 does the delay happen every time or only sometimes? If Everytime I suggest enabling debugging and looking at the logs to see what's going on. They are pretty insightful
Where can I get the bat signal lamp??
How to get web core setup in the new app? I also don’t see any option. Plus all tutorials are using the old app.
Great video. Thank you. Have you reviewed ADT Smartthings security hub. Looking for a good display for my smartthings/all audio/video devices.
Thanks! I haven't yet. It's something I have thought about but I will look into it for a future review. Thanks for the suggestion!
Hey, do you have the link for the bulb holder next to you(Inside the shelf, which have lifx bulb )
Where can I get the batman light ?
Hey! I came across your video for the very reason that you used in your video, that is override a motion sensor command to turn the light off
when turned on manually. I like your solution! You mentioned you would share the code/program but I don't see a link...please share
Hi Reed, took me about 30 minutes to work out why you have properties of a piston in your video but not on mine after someone recommended changing ‘task cancellation policy’. No videos or any websites hinting how to do that. Tried swapping browsers, everything.
But found out clicking an ‘if’ makes that properties appear but yours were showing from the start.
What's going to happen to webCoRe after the Smartthing Classic app is phased out?
webCoRE works with the new app now!
This isn't very intuitive from the get-go - I've installed the app and asks me to enter some code, but cannot for the life of me figure out how! There is no option to register either on the app or the website and none of the about or help sections mention anything about this initial step - any help??
The community is a great resource for help with webCoRE community.webcore.co/
Are you trying to access the dashboard from the smartthings app or desktop browser? It sounds like you may need to go into the SmartApp and click on "Register Browser"
Lol you are teaching C++ programming. I had bought smart things to get away from programming seems like I am going to have to get back into it. Also thanks just started following your UA-cam channel bought a SmartThings hub v3. Now I need.to buy sketches and sensors unfortunately in Canada so can't.buy the cheap wyze sensor kit... sighs.
Hey i am trying to set a reminder to change my cats litter box every other day. I can't figure out a good way to to do this
Could I make the SmartThings Presence Sensor do something like this with Web Core?
If I am away from home and return between 12am - 6am turn lights on?
Currently this doesn’t really seem to work using automation because the sensor picks up that I’ve arrived after 12am even if I didn’t leave the house before 12am.
Let me know if this can be done and I’ll give it ago! Otherwise let me know if you have any other ideas how I can get it to work.
Yes you can! Your real challenge will be the stability of the presence sensor. This could be accomplished with a "if presence changes to home between 12am and 6am, turn on light else nothing" piston. webCoRE has a great community on the SmartThings forum and their wiki is pretty helpful too! community.webcore.co wiki.webcore.co/
So where is the script for the batman light with motion sensor?
would anyone know why my LifX lights are not showing up in the devices list in webCore?
I added the token onto webCore from LifX... but I still don't see it.
thanks
Hi how do you add all those smart apps you have like ecobee, logitech, my q, ring, st community installer ect?...Thanks !
Reed, are you using the new SmartThings app these days? Do you have any problems with send PUSH notification to the new app?
I am using the new app. Make sure to have "store in messages" as true and it will work. I had that off before and it wasn't working.
Smart Home Solver I’ll take a look. Thanks for the response!
Smart Home Solver I figured it out. For some reason I had notifications turned off in the SmartThings settings. Thanks for always quickly replying! You have the best channel
Oh that will fix it. Thanks I appreciate it!
Quick question. With webcore can you call an API as an action
Or
Can the action be somehow a command for google home to run? For example. You can use voice to ask google to pull up front door camera on google home hub (the one with a screen) but is it possible to get webcore to trigger a command for google assistant to run?
Where can I get that awesome batman light?
It's an IKEA ps 2017 table lamp with a LIFX light bulb in it but you can put any A19 bulb in there.
@@SmartHomeSolver awesome thank you so much!
Does the code live in the smartthings app of does smartthings have to reach out to the webcore site to execute. In other words if the webcore site went away would the code still work??
I use webCore for when I need to use a time function with commands and occupancy.
Washer and Dryer notifications, Garage door auto close, closet auto off lights after the switch is turned on.
Wife is really liking it.
webCoRE really is awesome isn't it?!
in new smartthings app i don't find how to add the webcore service, can you help me?
Webcore! Where have you been all my life lol, where are your examples though?
You zoomed through it, we need to go through examples written. I'm still confused.
Great video as always. Any idea on how to connect an LG TV to smartthings? I have a Wemo plug and multipurpose sensor turning on a cooling fan unit if the temperature inside my cabinet goes over 80°. The problem is, summer is coming so the fans turns on without the receiver being on because room temperature so it waste electricity. I want to trigger the automation only if the TV's on. Can you help or give me another idea? Thanks. I have a harmony hub, ifttt, an echo, if any of the helps.
If you use something like harmony hub for your TV, you can add it into SmartThings and then use webCoRE to interact with it. Just a side note - Wemo has been having some connectivity issues with smarttings the last few days.
Thanks for this video. I want to purchase a new hub. Do you think Smartthing v2 its better than v3.? Which one do you think I need to buy.
v2 is better if you can find one
@@BeardedTechGuy thanks. Sorry to ask you again I see that you have a lot of knowledge. And thanks for your reply. Can you tell me why its v2 better than v3 just to be clear and get more knowledge. Thanks
v2 hardware is better -
v2 CPU: 1GHz
v2 RAM: 512MiB
v3 CPU: 500MHz
v3 RAM: 128 MiB
This means less local processing capabilities among other things. The big advantage of the v3 hub is the WiFi connectivity, but honestly for home automation I'd really urge to be wired for the best performance. Unless your wireless Meshes for Zigbee and ZWave don't work well with where the hub would have to be wired in.
Getting the v3 hub isn't the end of the world, its just not an upgrade over the v2 hub except for the WiFi.
I have xiaomi vacuum roborock s50 do you know how can set to start by a button? Nice job by the way
Thanks! I'm not sure about the vacuum but I will look into it.
@@SmartHomeSolver Thank you ;)
Have you figured how to integrate nest into smarttthings ? Contemplating returning my nest and picking up an ecobee instead. and my nest hello back for ring door bell.
I use the NST Manager which has worked well but it looks like Nest isn't issuing any new developer tokens to new accounts right now. Someone mentioned that recently and I just logged into the Nest developer portal and there is a message saying it. This is what it says "We're currently restructuring our developer program and are no longer accepting new developers to the program or performing client integration reviews for existing developers until the new program is implemented. Stay tuned for further details and announcements."
@@SmartHomeSolver that was the problem I ran into when I tried to install the NST manager. I'm was really surprised after I changed my ring for a hello to find out it is not natively Integrated to ST. I just assumed.
@@SmartHomeSolver so Nest products such as Nest Hello don't work with ST? I have a V2 hub from SmartThings and was wanting to get a Nest Hello doorbell.
@Blake B I'm pretty sure Nest Hello doesn't work with ST even with the NST Manger. I have the Nest thermostat and Nest Cam working with ST using the NST Manager but it doesn't sound possible to do that for new users right now.
I really wish smart things directly supported WiFi devices like Tplink and Kasa. I have several z-wave devices, but I really wasn't thinking when I saw a good deals on 3-way tp-link switches that I installed in the home. Then to realize that SmartThings doesn't support it directly without a middleman machine or something like that.
I completely agree. Especially with a big company like TP-Link.
@@SmartHomeSolver Same here. But I use TP Smartthings Manager from the Smartthings Community and it has been working flawlessly for the past month.
@Ty thanks for letting me know! I'm going to install that tonight.
@@jacked_geek Does it? I heard it was buggy. That still requires a PC or Raspberry Pi to be always running, doesn't it?
@@m3rdpwr No issues so far for me. And I have no Rpie. Just installed via the IDE
What scripting language is it?
Hello again! Are you at all concerned that groovy based SmartApps will one day be removed by Samsung? Also WebCoRE itself I think has been abandoned by it's primary developer. Could be wrong... That's why I switched to Hubitat. Rule Machine just got a big update, I've got to dive into is capabilities and limitations.
Hey Keith! I'm not too concerned that they would take away groovy based SmartApps. I know it's always a possibility but they would have to be pretty dumb to do that. Yeah I saw that the git repo for webCoRE hasn't been updated in a while but it's still working good so who knows. I hear good things about Hubitat and I have it but haven't reviewed it yet. I remember you said you were going to make a video with Hubitat. How's the video coming along?
@@SmartHomeSolver I've got most of the footage, I've just got to edit it together. SmartThings has announced Groovy will be discontinued one day. I can't stand the thought of pouring hours into creating these automations and then one day, they're all gone.
Hey! I came across your video for the very reason that you used in your video, that is override a motion sensor command to turn the light off
when turned on manually. I like your solution! You mentioned you would share the code/program but I don't see a link...please share