Android - Take photo if alarm activated

[625alex (Alex, ActionTiles Control Panel)]

Here’s what I used to do. You can build your smart app based on this, it should be very similar:

Widget showing home state in real time

Hi there, I wanted to share a a method I used to create an Android widget that shows me the state of my things at home with real time updates. [image] This is something I cooked up recently, it’s rather rough but it does the job. The screenshot above actually shows 5 widgets grouped together. The ones of interest here are the two columns of values. Here’s how it works: I have a smart app that takes a number of devices I want to monitor. In my case, I monitor doors, locks, lights and presence. When the state of any of my devices changes, I use Pushbullet service to send a push notification to my Android phone. That push notification contains a JSON string that represents the state of my home. The JSON string looks something like this: {"closed":"Front Door","locked":"all","mode":"…

Still, my original suggestion would have been the easiest to implement.