Security PIN Pad for use with SmartTiles

Entityxenon · January 23, 2016, 10:52am

SmartPINs

Summary

For use with SmartTiles - Use momentary switches / tiles to provide a method of PIN entry to disable your security system, in the absence of PIN entry existing within SmartTiles at present.

Security Notice

PLEASE NOTE:

PINs are stored in plain text
You should not use your bank or phone PIN!
Stored PINs can be read from the app (although your security can probably be bypassed here too)
Stored PINs san be read from IDE

However most criminals breaking in to your house are unlikely to be the most intelligent of beings to bypass this and it’s strongly suggested that the smart things App is not installed on the device you are using to present SmartTiles.

Installation Instructions

1. Install the SmartApp

Log in to IDE, create new SmartApp from code, save and publish.

github.com

jebbett/SmartPINs/blob/master/SmartPINs.groovy.txt

/**
 *  SmartPINs
 *
 *  Copyright 2016 Jake Tebbett
 *
 *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except
 *  in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed
 *  on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License
 *  for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
 * 
 * VERSION CONTROL - Plex Plus Parent
 * ###############
 *
 *  v0.1 - Quickly pulled together PIN eentry mechanism using virtual switches
 *  v0.2 - Added dual PINs and triggers
 *  v0.3 - Fixed major error, added routines and custom seconds before reset

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2. Create Momentary Switches

a. In IDE go to My Devices > + New Device
b. Enter the Name (This will appear in SmartTiles)
c. Enter Device Network ID – you can just make this up, but must be unique (I used PIN# replacing # with the button number)
d. Select Type “Momentary Button Tile”
e. Populate location & hub
f. Press create
g. Repeat for each switch (If you use the back button in your browser, all of the settings remain filled so you can just amend name and ID each time to save time)

3. Configure the SmartApp

a. Add the switches you have created to the assigned slots in the app, you don’t have to use all numbers if you just want a 4 digit number pad, Enter and Cancel are also optional and will work without.
b. Configure the triggers and PIN(s) – You can specify 2 PINs to trigger two switches or routines.

4. Configure SmartTiles

a. Add the switches as “Momentary Switches” to your desired SmartTiles Dash.

Entityxenon · January 23, 2016, 10:54am

Please be aware this is my first attempt at creating an app so please forgive any inefficiencies in the code or lack of understanding of SmartThings coding, any suggestions and improvements are welcome as this App was a learning exercise for me!

This started from another thread where a user wanted to be able to disarm the security system from within smart tiles via PIN. Through the use of dummy momentary tiles, this achieves that, I’m not sure if a custom device could make this easier perhaps.

Edit: Also I expect this will be made entirely redundant at some point when Terry updates SmartTiles to restrict a dashboard via PIN possibly in Version 6 from what I’ve read

Any and all input welcome, hope this helps someone!

Thanks Jake

Neight · October 9, 2016, 11:44pm

I am currently using an IRIS keypad, but it is unreliable at best. I think an old smart phone with this loaded will be a good backup. Thanks for doing this.

Entityxenon · October 10, 2016, 12:34pm

No worries