📄️ Getting Started with Automations
Automations allow you to create powerful routines, incorporating Devices and Connected Services that are on the SmartThings Platform. The different types of Automations you can create are outlined below.
📄️ Rules
Rules are a versatile tool, enabling you to automate the Devices and services that connect to the SmartThings platform. Rules are useful for manipulating Devices automatically when a specific event is triggered, for automating repetitive tasks such as adjusting a light as specific intervals, and for providing users with "set it and forget it" functionality.
📄️ Scenes
Scenes are used to simultaneously set a group of Devices to a particular state. Scenes do not have triggers, and are activated either by tapping the Scene in a SmartThings client (such as the SmartThings app) or by using the Scenes API.