Please delete or move if this has been answered, but I couldn’t find a simple way to do this.
I have a security system on a 2gig panel controlled with Alarm.com. I also have separate open/close sensors on all of my doors that I monitor with ST Smart Home Monitor.
I would like to have the alarm.com e-mail I get when I arm the alarm, also activate (and deactivate) the Smart Home Monitor.
I figured out the gmail label for the email coming in, but in ST in IFTTT there is no way to activate SHM that I can see.
I don’t have SHM set up right now, but can’t you set its alarm status with a routine?
If you can, it’s easy. You just set up a virtual switch that runs a routine, and have the IFTTT smartthings channel turn on that virtual switch. Same thing as having IFTTT set a mode.
There’s a smart app in the marketplace under smart apps/lights and switches which will tie a switch to a routine. The smart app has been around for a long time and is very popular. It uses the original terminology “hello home phrase” instead of “routine” but they’re the same thing.
i use IFTTT to send an email to my gmail account for the following: Armed Away, Armed Stay and Disarmed
Which in Turns on/off 2 different Virtual switches
Virtual - Away
Virtual - Stay
depending on the email received (disarm turns off both), then i use CORE to arm/disarm the system which has been working well
What i have found is that it can take upto 20 minutes for the trigger to come through from GMAIL/IFTTT combo.
Manually turining on/off any of the virtual switches, ST changes states instantly
Thinking of sacrificing 2 GE plug in modules to turn on/off through Alarm.com routines and check their status in ST and this would be quicker as i have both systems on the same zwave network.
Since the “Switch Activated Home Phrase” doesn’t seem to work for me, the CoRE seems like a good alternative. Installed it and running but don’t know how to use it.
Could you make a quick step by step to set it to Sync IFTTT to my Virtual switch that turns on SHM?
install 2 virtual switches in ST IDE (i called them Virtual - Arm & Virtual - Stay)
In Alarm.com, add option to send email when system is armed / away / disarmed to a gmail account
In IFTTT, enable IFTTT to control these 2 switches
I used the following routines in IFTTT to turn on/off these virtual switches
i. If new email in inbox from search for subject:Panel was Armed Stay, then Switch on Virtual - Armed Stay
ii. If new email in inbox from search for subject: Panel was Disarmed, then switch off Virtual - Armed Stay
iii. If new email in inbox from search for subject: Panel was Disarmed, then switch off Virtual - Armed Away
iv. ii. If new email in inbox from search for subject: Panel was Disarmed, then switch off Virtual - Armed Away
Have CORE monitor the status of these 2 Virtual Switches in ST and change the state of SHM by creating Pistons
i. if Virtual Switch - Arm changes to ON, then turn SHM Arm Away, turn OFF Virual Stay
ii. if Virtual Switch - Stay changes to ON, turn SM Arm Stay, Turn OFF Virtual Arm
iii. If Virtual Switch - Arm changes to OFF and Virtual Switch Stay is OFF, turn SHM to Home
iii. If Virtual Switch - Away changes to OFF and Virtual Switch Arm is OFF, turn SHM to Home
Hope this helps
Reminder: IFTTT can take upto 20 minutes to get the email and change the SHM status
