My RuleMachine & CoRE to webCoRE Migration is Complete :-)


#1

No big news here; just another noob blabbing while finding my way…

Thanks to the developers and all the community members for all the work and testing that has gone into webCoRE.

I have been a long-time Rule Machine user. Then, I switched over to using CoRE when it came out, but then sort of went back to using Rule Machine when the ‘too many Pistons’ problem showed up in CoRE.

Well, I finally got around to working in webCoRE a few weeks ago or so, and with some recent vacation time, I was able to focus on it a bit more. I now have all of my Rule Machine rules, and CoRE Pistons (from multiple instances of CoRE) fully migrated to my single instance of webCoRE.

In many places, I was able to merge several Rule Machine rules and/or CoRE Pistons into a single webCoRE Piston. Where appropriate, I left some separated, and tried to only merge the ones that seemed to make sense being combined.

Beyond that, since it is so capable, I have also migrated at least a couple purpose-built SmartApps (including a custom-built SmartApp that did things that no pre-existing SmartApp could do for me) into webCoRE as well.

So far, I have about 60 Pistons, but I realize I’ve barely touched the surface of this thing. Mainly, I just have what I’m assuming are simple Pistons (i.e. mostly just combinations of conditions, triggers, and timers). A small number are using variables. A couple use capturing/restoring. Maybe one or two have expressions.

I am very, very happy with the extent to which I’ve managed to wade in so far. :+1:

My current free-time window is closing, but hopefully sometime in the next couple months I’ll have some time to get back to this. I look forward to getting a better understanding of variables, functions, and expressions.

Well, thanks again, All. :slight_smile:


#2

The ultimate flexible smartapp for my thermostat?

webCoRE. Definitely webCoRE. :slight_smile:

After taking another look at the purpose-built, thermostat-related ‘SmartApps’ that I’ve been using for a couple years, I realized there was really nothing they were doing for me that couldn’t be done for me within webCoRE.

So, I did it.

Little-by-little, I’m transferring my SmartApp workload over to webCoRE.

Next?
Perhaps my Battery Monitor…I don’t know…