Today, I was able to completely rewrite all my automation using 3 'Apps'.
The Notifier app now perfectly handles all notifications - to phones, to Notifier tiles, and to Alexa announcements.
The Basic Rules app now completely handles all my 'specialty' rules! I have completely converted and have removed ALL RM rules! Simple Automation Rules (SAR) are now Basic Rules as needed, and SAR has been removed!
Motion and Mode Lighting App is the final piece to my puzzle.
My automation have never worked this well before! From Dashboards (android), to Presence to Mode specific light settings, to Notifications... every bulb and need is currently functioning superbly while at the same time, I've removed numerous 'extraneous' apps, drivers and customizations. GAF (WAF) level is at an all time high!
Congrats! Of course you know what they say... if all of your home automations are working then clearly you do not have enough home automations
GAF (WAF) or as I like to say SPAF is definitely a critical performance indicator and failure to meet required minimums may incur serious financial and other penalties. Glad to see you have exceeded expectations.
Is there a reason for removing the SAR app? Just curious because I did the opposite, after using both basic and SAR I preferred SAR so I deleted the basic rules app.
My understanding is that Simple Automation Rules was the first version of a “simplified” rule maker, and that Basic Rules is the newer version of a simplified rule maker.
as mentioned by @didymus, it is my understanding that the HE staff intended Basic Rules to extend and replace SAR. The thread that discussed this does describe them both being very similar, and I used to get confused on which was the location for specific tasks I'd written, which was what led me to research it. In the end, I moved all my SAR rules to Basic rules, and did away with SAR for simplification. No doubt the 'if it works don't screw with it' principle applies here but I'm taking the opportunity of moving to a new home to write a cleaner HE.
Just as I'm now adjusting my thinking that the HE doesn't solve all my automation problems, I'm trying hard to remove stumbling blocks that I self induce. My old thinking was 'hey, I don't have that, I should turn it on' no longer applies - thats what got me in trouble over a 2-3 yr evolution with my first environment.
A glaring item missing from my new environment is graphs. Since HE has no specific tool, I previously used Hubigraph knowing it was no longer actively supported. It worked, but I did have a few problems I never could solve.
I suspect nirvana is going to be short lived... it may be time to make a mess on another machine to run grafana...
If not for my doors open routine and Shades/Blinds rule, I could probably too move most of my stuff out of RM. But hey I sometimes like complicated. I also have WAF plus 2 dogs and 2 kids. So I always have to take that into consideration.
Alright I checked out the Basic Rules again, and I think maybe it has been improved since I last tried it (but it says v1.0?). I now see how it is an improvement over the apparently older SAR. Even thought it is a lot of clicking I think the flow is more intuitive, when you read the rule after its done it makes more sense on what it is going to do.
Super proud!
