Cedia 2018

[tgauchat (ActionTiles.com co-founder Terry @ActionTiles; GitHub: @cosmicpuppy)]

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Apparently Dome announced their range extender at CEDIA 2018. Why anyone would want to buy an extender nowadays I don’t know, but there it is…

I wonder what they mean by the LED works as an “indicator”?

If it can be turned on/off like a smart bulb, then we can think of millions of uses for such a status indicator. Even better if it was multi-colored, but that would have taken, ummm… foresight?

The
Extender has an LED light that works as a nightlight and can also act as an indicator in regular mode.

See:

Smart TINY LED light device to mimic security panel light?

I finally have my Fire HD 10 working nearly flawlessly to control my Konnected-driven home security setup (including integration with ActionTIles, Tasker for playing of warnings on Entry and Alexa Routines for playback of Exit warnings, Fully Kiosk Browser and more). The one thing I’m missing is the ability to glance at the panel (as I don’t keep it on 24/7) to see the state of the current system. A typical security panel generally displays a solid green LED when the system is off and a red LED when the system is on. I’d like to mimic this with some sort of smart device. I had hoped the Fire HD 10 could just do it, but as far as I can tell it doesn’t even seem to have an LED for notifications (if I’m wrong, I’d LOVE to hear it as that would solve this issue instantly, but I’ll be darned …