Smart Lighting is broken again

SmartApps & Automations
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Thanks for sharing. It looks like Wink has matured a lot. Can you do stuff like only turn on light with motion between 7am and 9pm? Turn off 5 minutes after motion stops? What about turn off lights when you leave the house? (Maybe with IFTTT I presume). What about dimming like 100% from noon to 8pm, 30% level 8pm to midnight?

For me it’s mostly lighting where smartthings fails. It’s a shame they are putting all their resources into Samsung TV apps when users still lacking basic reliable lighting control. I’d love to find a home automation solution that can dim my kids room lamp at night. SmartThings can’t do that unfortunately. It just doesn’t work every day.

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Exact same use case and problem here. No, this isn’t keeping patients alive in the ER level of reliability needed, but it isn’t zero impact when you go to get your kids up in the morning, you see their light has been on all night in error, and they’re a couple of super cranky beasts for it.

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Yes, you’ll need to set up two robots, using motion sensor as a trigger (one to turn the light on and another to turn it off), and restrict it to certain hours.

(How To: Create a Wink Robot — Wink Blog)

What about turn off lights when you leave the house? (Maybe with IFTTT I presume).

Yes, Wink has geofencing and the robots can be triggered by it, although I have never tried it, so don’t know how reliable it is.

What about dimming like 100% from noon to 8pm, 30% level 8pm to midnight?

Yes, this can be done using schedule. You can turn the light on or off and set any level you want at specific times or sunrise/sunset, with or without an offset.

(How To: Create a Wink Schedule — Wink Blog)

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Thanks geko. I read up on Wink today and things are looking bright after their acquisition which looks promising for better official integrations. Especially with wearables. Real local processing rolled out. And recently the leaksmart integration. They seem to be heading in the right direction which has me feeling better if this ship keeps sinking.

I may just move all my lighting over on a weekend and evaluate from there.

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I’m using wink now. Lighting control and schedules are very reliable. Unfortunately motion based lighting takes way too long to fire.

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Now to find a cheap Wink hub to play with. :wink: Im sure my wife would love it if I spent more money on this.

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They actually raised the price to $69.99 I think. I thought they would get cheaper when they filed or bankruptcy.

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It’s listed for $89.00 on Wink’s site and is out of stock.

$69.97 at HD. I got mine for $1.00 when they released in 2014. :slightly_smiling:

P.S. Wink hub is carried by Amazon.com again for $69.97 as well.

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