Recommendation: Grouped Rules or Parent/Child rules in RM4

[bertabcd1234]

@vitaliy_kh

Is the code created from using all these pull-down
menus somewhat compiled and injected in the machine code
(most likely not a case) or whatever Interpreter is involved?

Rules are not code, as has been mentioned a couple times. What you see might be considered "pseudo-code" that represents the actions you've chosen in a sort of human-friendly summary, but there's nothing special about what you see--they could make it display whatever they wanted to, and it wouldn't affect how the app works.

I wrote in another post an explanation of how Hubitat apps in general work (and again, I think you might enjoy that more in the long run, but the rules you posted in the other thread seem pretty manageable as-is). Rule Machine is also just a Hubitat app--albeit, probably one of the largest and most complex. But it still plays by the same rules. Incidentally, however, my comments were also regarding Rule Machine:

@bertabcd1234

It's not "interpreting" things in the sense of looking at the pseudo-code you see on the screen. All Hubitat apps (of this kind, so ignoring things like service managers) work by asking the user to fill out inputs that get saved to an internal settings map (as in the data structure) for that app. In the case of RM, the inputs are things like devices and what type of action you want to run. Both what RM does and what it displays are the result of an undoubtedly complex set of app code that looks at the settings and devices what to do [...]