bickyb
July 14, 2016, 6:14pm
1
Hi,
Are you using Smart Home Monitor as your home alarm or something else?
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bickyb
July 14, 2016, 6:24pm
3
Yes, currently using Smart Home Monitor.
One common method is to use a virtual switch. You could install the device handler below with switch on the command side and contact sensor on the attribute side. You then set a routine to trigger automatically based on this virtual switch/contact sensor. Inside that routine you arm your SHM.
This has got to be the sickest DTH ever…
The uDTH
Ever wished you could turn on a presence sensor with a switch?, or maybe take a lock command and send a motion event?
Basically this bad boy accepts these commands:
on
off
open
close
lock
unlock
and can turn them into these attribute states:
open
closed
present
not present
active
inactive
The following capabilities are presented on the command side:
switch
door control
garage door control
lock
The following devices are presented on the attribute side:
Contact
Motion
Presence
Door
Acceleration
Illuminance
Smoke
Water
Sound
You wire up an instance of this device to two separate apps, and off you go.
Add to your repo, and select the device MikeMaxwell : uDTH
the repo is
owner: MikeMaxwell
name: dth
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MichaelS
July 14, 2016, 6:43pm
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Using Ask Alexa you can also accomplish this:
All, this is a new thread from my conversation in the Alexa Helper area ([RELEASE] Alexa Helper )
I am officially announcing my new Ask Alexa Smart App. This is what a lot of us have been looking for when it was announced that SmartThings would work with the Amazon Echo (‘Alexa’). Unfortunately, the integration was one-way and limited. You could not query your devices to find out their status, and you had NO access to modes, SHM or routines. I attempted to fill the gap with Alexa Helper, and it did a great job at giving you additional control over items using simple on/off commands. I even got into the ‘feedback’ piece by sending a voice output to a Sonos speaker. But, I always felt this was a ‘hack’…why ask a speaker (Alexa) to report out on another speaker.
Well, with the guidance of @N…
@michaels you got to it before i could
