Fire Sprinkler Alarm Integration

[Cobra (Andy - United Kingdom)]

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How to tell if it's raining or snowing (Without looking outside!)

I have a conservatory that has electric roof vents/windows & I have a SmartApp I wrote that controls them and opens/closes with temperature. (via a Fibaro roller shutter relay) The problem is… when it rains! Due to the positioning of my conservatory when it rains the wind blows water into the windows if they are open. This leads to a 0% WAF as the conservatory floor gets wet! (and I get into trouble) When we are at home, I manually disable the ‘auto’ settings when it rains which automatically closes the windows. The obvious problem is that we like to leave the house occasionally So I had to do something that will detect when it is raining and close the windows. Searching for some ideas on Google I found this little beauty: Cheap enough at £27.00 to try and not too e…

It’s the same principle with a relay connecting the two wires
You could also use some door sensors like the Fibaro which has a possible wired connection

Power Loss Alerts

At our home we often experience voltage fluctuation on our electricity supply with multiple surges. (Not just us – It happens to the whole of the street) The consequence of this is that the RCD on our main fuse board often ‘trips’ knocking all our sockets off (The RCD is unfortunately now a legal requirement in the UK) This tripping is not a problem when we are at home – a quick trip to the garage to reset the RCD doesn’t take long (although resetting all the digital clocks is a pain – I need to replace them with battery backup ones) All my computers, SmartThings, network routers/firewalls etc. are covered by about 6 hours of UPS backup so short term blackouts are not an issue and we often lose power completely for 2-3 hours at a time However; when we are not at home a tripped RCD cou…

Basically you are using the relay to connect the two wires to signal to Smartthings