Arduino shield for use in siren

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I am considering making an arduino shield for use as a siren relay panel. I need to know 2 things before getting started though, hoping someone can give input…

  • Is the smartthings arduino shield whitelisted for local processing?
  • Can I set up the shield as a siren in smart home monitoring so that it will be sent a start and a stop signal when there is an intrusion? Lights seem to only be sent start signals when there is an intrusion so that wont work
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If local processing is one of your major requirements this project is likely to be a non-starter.

I believe the new “smart lights” lighting wizard is the only app that will run locally. No other smartapps will run locally, that includes smartthings-created smartapps like the smart home monitor.

Can I ask why arduino shield? Are you trying to tie into an existing alarm panel or just create a new alarm/siren from scratch?

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No.

The Shield joins as an empty template Device Type. Therefore anything you build with it needs a Custom Handler and it will be a very long time before SmartThings allows us to load custom Device Type Handlers locally.

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I actually have found that shm does work locally for me

Yes, starting from scracth- I’d like to have an alarm panel so I can actually hook up a decent siren rather than these z wave toys I see in the compatible products

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Damn, yes its a non starter in this case :frowning:

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I was also driven to create my own alarm. See post I made with custom alarm (siren/strobe) I created:

In essence, you don’t need to setup via Arduino shield to do this.

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Is there a way to have smart home monitor turn off the siren when the house has been disarmed / intrusion dismissed? I thought about doing something like that (that’s actually what I tested to see if shm would work offline) but I need it to turn back off as well.

One option I was thinking of was gutting a z wave siren and using it to trigger a relay.

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The way I do this is as follows. Using the configuration for SHM, once you select open/close and motion sensors to monitor, you will select ‘Alert with Lights’ under the alarm notifications section.

Then in all of my modes “Hello Home”, “Goodnight”, Etc. I include the rule to turn off the switch I trigger for my SHM alarm.

Essentially when I received an false intrusion alert, I simple switch to one of my modes, e.g. “Hello Home” which will turn off the alarm switch and also disarm SHM.

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Ah ok, that works but you still do need to manually intervene - I am hoping to have something that will turn off automatically after x minutes like the siren seems to be configured to do - I dont want to end up getting a fine from bylaw for noise in addition to getting robbed haha

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But that does seem like the best plug and play solution there is for now. Its an area for smartthings to improve

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You would have to manually intervene and disarm SHM with one of the other plug and play alarms on the market.

To solve this you can create a separate rule that triggers once the alarm is triggered ‘ON’ that after 5min time or say 5min time no motion to turn it “OFF”.

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Smart home monitor has a timer built in for the siren - does that not work? It doesnt require that the house be disarmed or the intrusion be dismissed. Or at least thats how its represented, I havent tested it.