Last night we had 3 power outage during the night, with a couple of hours between each
We have a lot of smart bulbs and smart switches around the house, so each time the power came back, the light turn on everywhere on the house, had to wait for smartthings to turn on to switch all those lights off
Since it happened 3 time during the night, we had a shitty sleep and I am looking for a way to avoid that
Is there a solution to turn all the bulb and switch off before the power come back ??
The first rule of home automation applies: “the model number matters.”
If your smart bulbs are hue bulbs attached to a hue bridge, it’s easy: Hue offers a “power on” feature which let you set the desired behavior for each individual Bulb, either turn on or come back with whatever the setting was before the power outage. Very nice, and works well.
If you are using a different brand which connects directly to the smartthings hub, some of these, but not all, can report to the hub when power is restored. So one community member has created a “canary“ smartapp which can recognize when a Bulb which is normally always off gets turned on, and then use that to trigger whatever you want to have happen with your other bulbs, typically to have them turn off. (The topic title is a clickable link.)
other question, If I buy a UPS to plug my router/hub/modem, after a power outage, will I be able to go on my smartthing app, to change the status of each device to off ? Or since they will be offline, only the local device will still work?
I now have around 20 Zooz devices, still all ZEN26 and ZEN27.
I would have more but I’ve lost faith in the SmartThings implementation of Z-wave so all new devices in the last several months have been Zigbee. In particular the new GE/Jasco Zigbee 3.0 line.