Smartthings Running on Wink Relay

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If anyone is interested, you can gain root by using the KingRoot tool found on XDA. For anyone interested, here was my process on a 1 week old relay that had been updated to latest software:

  1. Hold top switch and press reset button on bottom. Hold top switch until recovery screen is displayed. Choose last option to restore to factory.
  2. After restore, when relay boots up and is at login screen, cover sensor at top and hold down bottom switch until relay clicks multiple times. Release bottom switch and you should be at Android home screen.
  3. Open settings, navigate to security, check unknown sources. Repeat step 2 to get back to home screen
  4. Open browser, navigate to apkpure website and download
  • Chrome (choose version compatible with Android 4.3)
  • assistive touch for android 2
  • Nova launcher so that you can set it as your default home app
  1. Make sure Nova is set as your default home app
  2. Open assistive touch and set it up. I added some favorites for easy access.
  3. Open Wink Relay app, login and update software to latest
  4. After reboot, use assistive touch to go back to home screen
  5. Open Chrome, Google “KingRoot” and download KingRoot from XDA.
  6. Run KingRoot and you should get message that your device is rooted.
  7. Open Chrome, go to apkpure website and search for “full!screen” and download it. Open and install it and set it up to run at startup. I personally set the virtual buttons in the corners to completely clear so you can’t see them, but they’re there. Also made them small.
  8. (Optional) Search apkpure for “BuildProp Editor” and download and install. Open app and scroll down to “qemu.hw.mainkeys” and change the value to 0. This will enable the bottom navigation buttons.

I think that’s it. I’m going purely off of memory but I’m pretty sure that’s everything I did. I now have root and am currently running Home Assistant as my front end on the relay with Wink running in the background. I personally use Wink along with Home Assistant but wanted to post here as this thread got me interested in getting a relay in the first place.

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