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March 10, 2016, 2:43am
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rogersmj:
I tried SmartTiles a long time ago but I’ve been away for awhile. Is it at all possible to use a motion trigger to automatically “pull up” a full-screen camera tile in SmartTiles? Does the architecture of the web app even support that sort of action?
I want to use a camera that can act as a motion sensor in SmartThings, OR a motion sensor + camera combination, to automatically show a large image of the camera feed when motion is detected – e.g. when someone comes up to my front door, I want the dashboard to automatically switch to showing that feed, although I don’t need to see it front and center all the time.
If that’s feasible, I’d love to see such trigger events added to the SmartTiles app. “Load this dashboard when this thing happens, and automatically return to previous dashboard when this thing stops happening” sort of logic. Would be amazing if Rule Machine and SmartTiles could somehow be made to work together.
If you’re using Androids for your SmartTiles units, you might be interested in this thread…
[Note: my immediate application for using this concept is with getting external motion sensors to wake an Android’s screen, but I will eventually want to do this with other sensors and different reactions as well]
I have seen this discussed in a lot of threads, and there are different pieces and parts of the concept all over the place. I wanted to see it specifically discussed in one place.
Generally speaking…
Z-Wave/Zigbee connected motion sensor detects motion
SmartThings gets notified
SmartThings sends notification to Android device as usual
Some app on Android device parses SmartThings notifications
App on Android sends command to wake Android device screen or other task on the Android device
Not Using Android Camera
This would waste energy. That’s why I want it to use an externa…
My specific application for the mechanism was to get the screen on my Androids to turn on when motion happens in the room. However, there are all kinds of things that can be done with the tools involved (mentioned already in this thread)…SmartThings / SharpTools / Tasker / Secure Settings .
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