Smart Home Monitor - Touch-Screen Controller

[JDRoberts]

Authors are free to put in as much detail as they want in project posts, and you can always ask for more.

Seriously, dude, how much more of a “recipe” do you need than the following?

https://community.smartthings.com/t/smart-secret-bookcase/

Or this?

A wooden cube that controls lighting [OBSOLETE]

I built a wooden cube that has a sensor inside that talks to the Mood Cube SmartApp to control my Hue bulbs. Each face has a colored wooden inlay (held in place by magnets) that tells you which color scene will be activated. Hidden behind two of the circles is the bolt that holds the cube together. It can be easily disassembled when I need to replace the batteries. Here’s a video: [Philips Hue controlled by wooden cube (and SmartThings)!] [image] Just thought I’d share. I can post photos of the build process if anyone is interested. EDIT: Added some photos of the process since a couple folks asked. Enjoy! The building blocks. I bought these online somewhere. [image] Glue and clamp. Each half (4 little cubes) were done separately. [image] Drill a hole for the Multi S…

Or this?

Alexa + SmartThings + IFTTT + Harmony to turn TV on and off by voice (2015 version)

Updated 12 November 2015 after Amazon added “Triggers” to their IFTTT Channel for Alexa As valuable as I personally found this project, and as much as I learned in doing it, as of 12 November 2015 it’s now no longer necessary. Amazon has added verbal triggers to their IFTTT channel. So you can say anything you want to as a trigger to Alexa and use that as the “if” for an IFTTT recipe, and have that trigger anything that has an IFTTT “that” channel. So SmartThings, Philips Hue, Harmony activities, etc. No virtual switches needed, no synch issues. It really is that easy. If you’re new to IFTTT, here’s a good overview: You may still want to use the direct Harmony/SmartThings integration to control certain aspects of TV watching, like limiting your kids to 30 minutes of Net…

There are a number of topics in the Project category that have plenty of detail.