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Hi, guys!
Iām presenting a team of developers, and we have an idea of creating a mobile app that will let you control your smart home via voice commands. Itās similar to INSTEON mobile app, in particular at interface and functionality, but we are developing a way of how to teach your smart home to easy and natural voice commands.
So, Iād like to hear all your thoughts about that. How do you think, are you interested in voice-controlled smart home? What problems did you face in terms of controling your homes? Do you think that voice control is better than manual? Please, describe you experience of sm. home usage.
We will appreciate your opinions and recommendations. Thanks!
Iām quadriparetic, so voice control is very important to me. 
I am currently using a method Will Poirier developed that involves Siri and ifttt to control smartthings functions. Other people are using hardware options, Like Ivee and Ubi, and android users have a whole different set of available options. There is also an official smartthings voice control app for the Samsung gear S smart watch.
We have a pretty active topic that discusses all of these, so you might check that out.
I love the idea of voice control for ST. I am waiting for my Amazon Echo to show up in May so I can start looking into integrating with ST. I have already contacted Amazon and they did say that ST is on their to do list for official API supportā¦no timeline of course.
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Just ordered 3 Nexus 7 (2013 model) tablets. Google discontinued them a couple days ago so I snatched 3 up to use as wall mounted control panels. Great tablet for a great device. Excited about the potential.
Will be using various apps to fully ST enable them, along with other functionality. Motion Detector for presence activation, etc.
Trying to decide if I should update them to Adroid 5.1. Weāll see!
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This is what iām working on, I call it Weather Panel. Itās inspired by 625alexsās SmartTiles project. It grabs the weather and outside temp from the default SmartWeather Station Tile device and inside temp from any temp sensor and places it on top a randomized wallpaper that is stored in dropbox. The whole thing is presented as a webapp. Iām finishing up testing and documentation now, i hope to have the code released by the end of the month. 
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I would love to see different elephants representing of different temperature times. A wooly mammoth for -0* F, and a regular african elephant for regular 70-90* temperature.
Joking aside, thatās awesome to see this. Iām particularly interested in the documentation, but something clean like this is something Iām personally looking forward to.
Cheers! End of May canāt come soon enough for me!
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Per request, nothing special really.
DiswasherNanny: PEQ water sensor hacked into a contact sensor, powered from the 3V supply of an aeon micro, mounted on top of the dishwasher. App monitors temp change, uses aeon micro to drive small neon indicator, using Aeonās device blinkers modes, slow flash when DW is active, steady light when cycle is done, super fast blink when door is opened to remind to put dishes away. Pushing button on panel resets indicator.
WholeHouse Fan: Aeon dual micro with relays, driver hacked to run two speed fan. Hacked ST multi, powered from 3v aeon micro, ST multi suspended in front of fan, contact used to indicate fan run status, xyz used to monitor fan load (cut speed back if not enough windows are open), app inputs from internal and external temp sensors and window contact sensors to activate fan and control speed.
I probably could have grabbed the fan load from the Aeonās energy reporting, but it was flakey, and abusing the ST multi seemed like more funā¦
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Has anyone created a template for capturing project ideas? Iām using a spreadsheet with Device, Location, Type, Category, Function. What I think Iām missing is things like scene integration and other information. Rather than reinvent the wheel, I hope someone else has put together a template for this.
Iām working on another Smartthings webapp. I call this one Timely Presence. In my ātestā house it is 10:31 pm, Dad and daughter are out while mom and son are home. You will be able to choose any jpeg image you wish to represent the individual members in your home and it will change from full color to grey scale depending on their presence status.
If you havenāt already guessed i use all my old cellphones and tablets as weather stations, clocks, or for smarttiles around my house.
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Here is a link where you can see what we are doing at the VA.
VASmarthome Demo
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Here is a link to a project I am prototyping
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Really nice! The proprioception fractal tracker is very cool, I havenāt seen that before. 
At some point you might consider displaying interior room temperature to go along with some of the other activity data. Not everyone is temperature-sensitive, but a lot of TBI patients are, and it can be a helpful part of activity review. Also many quads and paras have pain management issues at different temperatures.
At my house, if interior temperature is below a certain point at wake up, a blue light comes on to remind me to have my dog bring me warmer clothes. (My outfits are prepacked so the dog can bring them all at once.) I donāt always feel it, but it makes a big difference in functionality and pain management.
Yeah so there are 2 projects. The VA (which is TBI specific) and the ColbrenHomes which is my personal venture. In ColbrenHomes I did plan to have temps and even highlight rooms when there is motion. Want it to be very dynamic. The real point of ColbrenHomes is not so much the software itself, but to provide a storyboard for ideas to present to home builders etc.
When the VA Smarthome project started, it really started purely as a tracking system using the Ubisense UWB RTLS system to track a patientās path. One of the first uses was for Bill Kearns at University of South Florida across the street to look at what he calls the Fractal-D (measure of wandering) in hopes of predicting brain cognition levels and to predict fall risk. As far as TBI we never had a use case for temperature. I always enjoy getting insight from you on how you might use the system because Spinal Cord Injury is one of the places where we have thought of applying the system. Unfortunately there is a good chance this project may not be funded past Oct
My current integration project is TV notifications for SmartThings. The current plan is to use the NeTV as a HDMI passthrough to provide video overlay notifications. Its the only device that Iāve found that can do Video overlay on HDCP encrypted feeds, so it should simply always work. 
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This looks like something I would be interested in. I currently blink lights or change Hue colors to give me notifications when I am in the theater that someone is at the door or motion is in the driveway. Your solution would be much better and allow for more types of messages (like sever weather alerts!)
I also am looking to start work on something similar to give notifications into my VR headset, so I am I know when someone comes home or enters the room. (With the Samsung GearVR I just have SmartThings send a text since it is powered by my phone, but need to make something specific for Oculus/Vive PC based headsets.) Luckily, that is a much simpler project than the HDMI pass through you are working on.