I am looking for a bit of advice. I use ST at home and have it all set up fine, but I want to also set up a hub at my holiday home. I am after a bit of advice on this please.
Can you have 2 hubs registered to one email address?
Can both be controlled without logging in and out of my account on my iphone?
Can 1 presence fob we registered to both hubs or will I need 2 fobs per person?
Any other advice you may have for doing this would be welcomed.
A Zigbee or Z wave device, including the fob, can only be paired to one controller. So you would need two fobs, one for each hub.
I originally believed you could have a phonebased presence indicator work with both hubs, but @joshua_lyon corrected my error in his post below, so I have edited this post to remove that reference.
Unfortunately, any third party service that integrates with SmartThings will be limited to interacting with a single location based on the current state of the OAuth implementation without some clunky workarounds. A third-party software company can perform multiple authorizations to the SmartThings platform, but they would have to manage all of the logic and taxonomy within their application. I don’t know of any apps that make calls to multiple SmartApp instances from a single third-party app instance.
I believe SmartThings native phoned based presence is supposed to work with multiple locations(hubs). However I never really got phone based presence to work with either so I can’t say that for sure. For presence we have been able to work around the issues Josh described with Life360.
So Life360 knows when I’m at property A or property B. Life360 is directly connected with SmartThings property A. So I can have presence events triggered from that integration. Life360 is also directly connected to IFTTT which is solely connected to property B. So I can have presence events triggered from that integration.
As to the OP question, I’ll just say when I decide to move to Hub v2. I will probably create it as a new SmartThings Account and go with a 1 location/account setup. I feel like this will give me the most flexibility, and I don’t see SmartThings prioritizing 3rd party multi location support any time in the near future. I plan on using the google ability to treat name@gmail.com and n.a.m.e@gmail.com the same in order to create distinct accounts using the “same email”, and to use Account Sharing to allow control without logging in/out.
Similar concept, but I use the Gmail ninja trick that name@gmail.com and name+topic@gmail.com map to the same email, but can be used for creating multiple accounts. This lets me more easily setup spare accounts for development and testing.