Inexperience with SmartThings

[JDRoberts]

I am quadriparetic, wheelchair dependent without much hand function. I have personal aides who come from an agency. Usually they have a regular schedule, but sometimes a substitute is sent. Many don’t have smartphones, even if I wanted to give them access. So between that group and my roommate’s friends, I need obvious, non app device controllers at least for light switches.

There’s some discussion of control devices other than phones here:

Internet of things for non Internet of spouses/children

To be politically correct: “spouses,” not “wives.” My mom is the computer science professor, my dad has no tech skills whatsoever. (Hi, Mom! LOL) Anyway, there is an option for each kid’s room if you want to go to the trouble, and you just want button control inside the room rather than for kids on the go… you get a cheap android tablet, should be under $50. You install a version of SmartTiles or a similar dashboard app and install only the devices that tablet has access to. You wall or desk mount it in kiosk mode inside a frame that doesn’t give them access to anything else. http://www.smarttiles.click/ The following picture is from a similar community created dashboard by florianz. Again you would limit the tiles in each room to the ones that kid is supposed to have on/off access to…