@FusionDawg
I was working on the same Garage project a while back and I made it work without virtual switches, IFTTT etc.
You can find my code here:
Works perfectly for me for many months now.
Direct communication ST - Arduino.
Arduino pushes events to ST.
ST can poll/refresh if needed.
Can detect if Arduino is offline - Will show Unknown state in ST.
I also attached temperature sensor to Arduino to know temperature in the garage. You can cut that part out.
Also I didn’t want plain REST APIs to open my garage and was experimenting with SHA256 encrypted password and it turned out pretty good.
Few notes on very important settings:
- in Device Handler settings you have to input Arduino IP address, Port as well as MAC address. MAC address must be all uppercase with no columns. e.g. DEADBEEFFEED
- You must have static IP address for your ST hub and hardcode that IP address in Arduino code for it to be able to PUSH to ST hub:
// Smartthings hub information
IPAddress hubIp(192,168,0,50); // smartthings hub ip
const unsigned int hubPort = 39500; // smartthings hub port
Would be happy to help if you have any questions.
p.s. I borrowed a lot of code from @Charles_Schwer . Thank you, Charles!
