You&#x27;ve basically just given a link for 90% of the HA in my house. I don&#x27;t have the SmartThings hub, I have the Wink hub (for better or worse- I&#x27;d give it a B+). I slowly replaced most of the switches in my house room by room as the fancy struck me by just being bored on a Saturday and driving down to Lowe&#x27;s&#x2F;Home Depot and picking up a Z-Wave switch or two.<p>I replaced a few outlets here and there with Z-Wave outlets so that I could have a lamp come on w&#x2F; the overhead light because we have a couple of big rooms with crappy overhead lights. Also because it was interesting.<p>The garage door status&#x2F;opener is a hodgepodge of my own making (basically an Arduino plugged into an NRF chip to talk w&#x2F; my RPi that is plugged into a vpn into AWS to get Lambda comms from Alexa events and Wink API events).<p>Excluding the hardware and code I built, it was as simple as replacing outlets and switches in the house- which are probably pages 5 and 6 of the things you should know if you live in a house that you have to take care of.