Googled and searched exhaustively…anybody hook this device up to ST yet? I saw cloud control which has a very similar app, but would be different authentication…anyway, would love to be able to use webCore to use “if the spa is ON” conditions, but ST needs to see it first.
The in.touch.2 native app has tons of capability and more than I need for my ST integration needs
No, but I’ve got it working with homeassistant 
Hey Tim, so for someone like me who can’t create DHTs, but can drop them into ST IDE I doubt that helps?
Anyway I can run curl or command line commands on my server to communicate? I could probably make that work with ST…
I’m afraid it doesn’t have a REST API. Someone wrote a python module to interface to it GitHub - gazoodle/gecko-home-assistant: Home Assistant integration for spas equipped with Gecko Alliance in.touch2 modules
I don’t know how invested you are with ST but a few months ago I bought a Pi and installed HA. There is an ST integration so all my zigbee sensors appear in HA. I moved everything else over (Hue, Hive, Yeelight, scenes, automations) I’ve not really looked back (apart from occasionally lurking on this forum - LOL) There’s a bit of a learning curve but it’s far more customisable than ST.
Currently I’m recording my hot tub temps into Grafana with a view to creating an automation which decides the best time to turn the heater on, based on the outside temperature
Maybe I will load the python module and write a script on my PC using output from the module to update a virtual device via webCore. Do you know if running status using the python module every 5 minutes to get spa attributes would have any ill effects on the in.touch.2 interface (or spa for that matter)?
Yeah, that might work. The python module gives you an interactive shell to talk to the spa - you’d need some sort of wrapper for that
As for multiple calls, I imagine the controller board in the spa is constantly monitoring temp, pump status etc so you’d just be querying that. I wouldnt want to change (increase temp, toggle pump) constantly though but it doesn’t sound like you need that
I did this and it is working awesomely!
I installed the python geckolib on my 24/7 server.
I wrote a python script that runs every 5 minutes, polls the spa via the geckolib and then sends the values to webCore. Now I have a virtual switch that represents any pump running on my spa and global variables for everything I want access to in webCore (ie setpoint temp, actual temp, heater status and time stamp of data). Thanks for the suggestions!
that’s cool. I’m pleased you got it working. I never got as far as looking at webcore before moving stuff to HA. Wouldn’t mind taking a look at the script though if you don’t mind sharing ?
I have a gecko controlled spa with a heat pump and im considering going this route to automate tasks.
I have rudimentary programming skills (mechanical engineer turned organisation researcher), so I’m kindly asking your advice on the best route achieve the following:
-Automate normal to energy saving mode every night on specific time. I have solar panels, so the spa should only heat in the daytime.
-Turn on the heatpump when setTemp > meassuredTemp - a ST on/off switch can do this and the logic should be added to the scripts running the spa.
I assume I would have to buy a SmartThings hub, ST on/off switch and of course the in.touch module.
Any thoughts on this?
@Insaneoctane: would it be possible to adapt and use your Python code for this.
Thanks for any suggestions.
/Kasper
TBH - you could probably do those things from iPhone app
Thanks. Got the Gecko in.touch and scheduling a lower temp af night works fine.
Also got it working with HA, a bit more effort required.
I plan on adding a relay to the flow sensor of the heat pump to control it from HA. Seems to be an easy way of controlling it from HA. Next step is to add a bit more rules: Dont heat spa if rain is predicted and only heat when solar power is a bove a certain level.
Would you like to share your python code on this project? I would like to build something similar.
Well with webCore not working on ST anymore, I am back to the drawing board. Step one is to figure out how to at least get pump on/off status into ST again
Hi Kasper, I would like to get it in.touch working with HA - you said you managed to get this integrated.
Would you mind sharing?
Thanks!