I'm finding myself accessing the Rule Machine more than anything else in Hubitat.
I'd like to suggest that Basic Rules, Rule Machine 5.1, and Visual Rule Builder be combined into 1 app called "Rules" (or Rule Machine) and placed into the Main Menu Links on the left column. The page would look similar to the Devices page, with all the Rules listed along with their types: Basic, Advanced, Visual. It can have 3 buttons at the top: "New Basic Rule", "New Advanced Rule", and "New Visual Rule".
With the Rules apps in the App page, I'm constantly clicking on Apps, scrolling down to Rule Machine, expanding its contents, then scrolling again to look for the rule to make adjustments or create a new rule.
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that makes sense the functionality for each is differnt
I think that is generally true for everyone. Adding devices is a once and done event, there isn't too much to do with the hub once devices are connected except write automations, in whatever tool is chosen.
So we spend most of our time in our automation tool of choice. Rules apps seem to be the most popular, but there are many people using Webcore as well, as well as the visual rule builder apps available now.
There is also a growing group of people writing custom apps and drivers coded directly in Groovy to write their automations, and this is only increasing with AI generated code.
So, yes, automations are where we spend our time. I spend most of my time in VS Code editors writing my automations in Groovy.
Besides automations, I have spend a good amount of time creating dashboards. Seems like there is always something more to tweak or add to dashboards as I learn more CSS tricks that can be applied to them.
