Tag: home automation
All the articles with the tag "home automation".
Talking to my house - Amazon Alexa (Echo) and SmartThings
Amazon recently competed their Alexa/Echo integration with SmartThings after previously integrating a number of other home automation hubs like Wink and Hue. I jumped on it as soon as it was available…
Home Automation dashboard for SmartThings
SmartThings does a lot of things well, but their main failing has been support for larger screens. If you have a tablet, you can run the phone interface, but it doesn't take advantage of the larger fo…
Smart Sleeping - morning wakeup routines with SmartThings
I've been using home automation as type of morning wake-up alarm for several years, but always found the scheduling to be cumbersome. In most home automation systems you need to rely on motion detecti…
Add Community Created SmartApps to SmartThings
One of the great things about SmartThings is how easy it is to develop for and how active the development community is. Users can create SmartApps for specific scenarios, and then use those SmartApps …
Su Casa Es Mi Casa - Vera automation hub hacked
Xipiter has a great write-up on how they hacked the MiCasaVerde Vera quickly and easily : The device has embedded SSH private keys on THE IMMUTABLE sections of the firmware image so we know that all t…
Smart Leak Detection - Using the Utilitech Water Leak Detector with SmartThings home automation
As I've been moving all of my home automation projects over to the SmartThings environment, I'm expanding my number of devices and scenarios in order to take full advantage of the easy monitoring and …
Smart Smoke Detection - Using First Alert ZSMOKE with SmartThings home automation
As I've switched my home automation from Vera to SmartThings I've also been expanding my network of z-wave devices at home. Since SmartThings does such a great job with different notification options …
Home Automation: Using powerful logic with the PLEG Plugin for MiOS with MiCasaVerde Vera
Using logic with MiCasaVerde's Vera home automation products can be very frustrating. Thankfully, the PLEG plugin is here to help, here is an example.
Home Automation: Motion sensors and lights with VERA scenes (micasaverde z-wave)
One of the more frustrating aspects of building z-wave scenes in VERA I've found over the years is when multiple points of automation are touching the same switches or sensors. Thankfully there is usually a way to workaround it by using apps like VERA Countdown timer.