Support for Kevo SmartLocks and gateway (for Kwikset, Baldwin, Weiser)

[JDRoberts]

@wjruffing

With SmartThings providing neither a STATE (Home, Away, Armed, etc.) nor a
TRIGGER when automation routines fire (“Goodbye”, “Goodnight”, etc.), it
seems unlikely that I will be able to get the functionality I am looking
for in regard to my Kevo smart locks automatically locking after everyone
leaves the house.

However, I may be missing somthing obvious.

It’s not obvious, but that information is available in the smartthings system, it’s just not readily exposed through the mobile app UI.

So to get that information, many people use the virtual switch method which @Automated_House mentioned.

The point is that smartthings does allow a routine to turn a virtual Switch on/off and also allows you to set a routine to be automatically fired whenever A virtual switch is turned on/off.

So anything which a routine can do can be initiated by a switch.

That gives you very simple integration with many third-party systems including IFTTT, Amazon echo, etc. They can’t see the SmartThings modes, alarm states, door unlock routines, etc-- but they can see a simple switch, and you can set it up so that that switch going on or off will cause any of the other things to happen on the SmartThings side.

Here is the FAQ for that (this is a clickable link)

FAQ 2017: Have Alexa/Google Home/IFTTT run a routine, change a mode, or arm/disarm Smart Home Monitor (SmartThings Classic)

Echo and Google home only recognize some device classes, specifically lights, switches, thermostats , and maybe locks. The official SmartThings/Alexa integration can run routines, but only routines that are limited to the device classes above. IFTTT has the same issue. The SmartThings service/channel can turn a single device on or off, but it doesn’t show routines or modes or smart home monitor status. So how can you use your voice assistant or IFTTT to change your mode, unlock a lock, or change smart home monitor armed status if the voice assistant/IFTTT won’t work with those kinds of devices? Fortunately, it’s easy. All you need to do is create a virtual switch and then have that virtual switch coming on turn on whatever routine you want. The echo/GH/IFTTT won’t even …

So that’s the good news. Pretty much anything that smart things can do can be controlled through its IFTTT channel by using the virtual switch method described in the FAQ.

Unfortunately, the bad news is that doesn’t help in this particular case, because Kevo does not allow its lock to be a “that” in an IFTTT applet. So no matter what the SmartThings event is, you can’t use the Kevo IFTTT channel to unlock the lock because of restrictions on the Kevo side.