April
February 15, 2015, 3:44am
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Hi Everyone!
We met up with the folks over at hackster.io , and they’ve created http://hackster.io/smartthings for us! Submit your current projects there and get showcased! There’s an easy way to just link your thread, and it generates the first post you have there. If you do later edits, it takes a few more steps to update it on hackster.io , but regardless, an easy way to transfer your projects you share here, THERE! Love to see more of our stuff on there!
Cheers~
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@bdahlem your easy button hack would be a great article for this.
So, I made a Z-Wave Easy Button, and I invite everyone to do the same.
I posted an instructable describing the process of hacking it together, and the code I used . It’s a fun little remote for SmartThings.
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This thread has a couple different approaches to doorbell notifications that I would make good articles too.
I just figured out a fairly simple way to get alerts when my doorbell is rung. I have a wired 24v doorbell.
I believe many others work the same way as mine:
Pushing the doorbell outside triggers a magnetic coil inside that fires a pin to hit the bell.
I figured if it’s using magnetic power, then it might work with a z-wave door/window sensor. I took a z-wave door/window sensor and taped it right by the doorbell’s magnetic coil. It works flawlessly. The doorbell ringing affects that coil enough to make the z-wave sensor think that it switched from open to closed.
I don’t quite have the know-how to create a smartapp for this, so I just called it a door sensor and set up an alert for when the door sensor opens. So when someone rings the doorbell I get this message, “Doorbell is open”…
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Mihos
April 4, 2015, 4:45pm
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Nice. I have a couple of Yun projects that smartthings is a good addition too, but not mandatory, and that is a good place to put them.
