wpascarelli:
I have been trying to program my Aeon Minimote and I find the Button Controller smartapp to be a bit limited. It only gives me options for Lights, Locks, Sonos, Sirens, or I can set a Mode. I have other smartthings devices that do not fall into these categories, for example, I have Arlo cameras that I have integrated with Smartthings. I would like to be able to press a button on the minimote and have it disarm the cameras or switch to a different Arlo mode. I have tried several different ways and cant seem to get something like this to be a possibility. Anyone have any ideas?
if a routine can do what you want, you can trigger the routine with a button press.
https://support.smartthings.com/hc/en-us/articles/205380034-Routines
Use the “additional settings” towards the end of the setup wizard for adding a new routine, select “automatically perform” and then “button is pushed.”
Alternatively, With Core, you’ll be able to do pretty much anything SmartThings can do.
CoRE (now WebCore) is a very powerful community – created rules engine for SmartThings. It allows you to set up stacked conditionals like “If A then B but only while C and not if D.”
Setting it up can be quite complex, but there are many community members who will be glad to help you.
For example, here is a piston that one member created to notify him if the dog had already been fed twice that day and he picked up the dog bowl for a third time. He needed this because he has a large family and people didn’t always remember whose turn it was to feed the dog.
