Dan999
December 30, 2016, 2:40pm
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I think it’s time for some enterprising person to make a post with all the Thing Shield alternatives in one place. Here are some links to get you started…
The title says it all. I have created a device type to interact with the Particle Photon/Core. I have also created a Photon/Core firmware that will interact with this and use the Neopixel.h library.
Firmware and device type can be found here:
This creates an extremely cheap set of RGB lights that can interact with Smartthings.
What you will need:
Photon/Core $20
WS2812B rgb light strip
These worked great for me http://www.amazon.com/Addressable-Strip-WS2812B-meters-meter/dp/B00JSJSBZK/ref=lp_9219252011_1_1?srs=9219252011&ie=UTF8&qid=1443029994&sr=8-1
Bread board or soldering iron
Notes:
The WS2812B is a great rgb for dev boards as it runs at 5v and in the case of the photon can run directly off of vin if you are supplying usb power or you can split an outside power supp…
In addition to what JD has posted above, there are many other methods which have been explored in other community discussions. For example, you could use an ESP8266 board (~$10) which can be programmed via the Arduino IDE and has built-in WiFi. This could then be connected to the ST cloud via the Hub as shown in this discussion:
Others have implemented cloud-to-cloud integration via IFTTT or Particle.
Still others have tackled full bi-directional Ethernet communications via the hub, as show in:
At this point, I am not sure why one wouldn’t simply run an OAUTH SmartApp that exposes everything you want from the ST Cloud (including virtual devices that represent the physical devices attached to your local Arduino, Raspberry Pi, ESP8266, etc…) Then you simply have your micro-controll…