Wink Relay. What do I do with this thing?

[Chris1981 (Chris)]

So I found a Wink Relay for a penny at Home Depot! I bought one for $130 on an open box special 2 years ago when I first got into my smart home journey. By then, I was already invested in Smartthings and Alexa. So the thing was pretty much a pretty double switch for $130 to me, so I returned it. Anyway, I installed the one I got for a penny and have no idea what to do with it! I installed a home button, chrome, and total launcher. Now what? The only thing I can think of is using it as a keypad for my smartthings alarm setup. Is it possible to set it up to where it comes on as the keypad compatible with my smartthings alarm when I approach it? Or does anyone else have another suggestion?

[JDRoberts]

Here are a couple of project reports from other community members:

[OBSOLETE] Wink Relay - Custom SmartThings Integration

I’ve developed a custom integration for connecting the Wink Relay to SmartThings and would like to share it with the community. With the integration, you can control the light loads (relays) and get instant status updates for the sensors, light loads, and button presses. The integration is all performed over your local network with no additional dependencies on IFTTT, Stringify, or other cloud services. This integration was originally written for Groovy and does not work since SmartThings shutdown Groovy in 2023. The source code for the Groovy Device Type Handler (DTH) and SmartApp are open source and available below if anyone from the community wants to take over and port things to an Edge Driver. Developer Note: I am not personally using Wink Relay devices any more, but …

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[OBSOLETE] Wink Relay Integration with SmartThings

Hi all, I have had a lot of fun trying to integrate the Black Friday special that wink.com had for the Wink Relay ($30 each so I bought two of them) and they’ve been fairly easy to hack and customize to my desires. If all else fails, reset and you’re back to scratch. Below are my complete notes on how to make this talk to SmartThings, MQTT, IFTTT and Home Assistant. Please see this page for step-by-step guides on some if not most of the steps below: ThingsThatAreSmart.wiki FACTORY RESET Hold top button on the Wink Relay and press the small reset button located directly below the middle of the screen but behind the clear plastic. After the reset, let go of the top button. Doing the factory reset takes the Wink Relay back ALL THE WAY and removes any of the updates. This is a great way to …

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Smartthings Running on Wink Relay

While this is my “proof of concept” I can verify that Smartthings can run on the Wink Relay. The next steps in this project will be to load a clean (non-Wink) version of Android on the Relay and set Smartthings as the default app that launches at boot. Thought I would share a taste though so others can jumpstart efforts to assist with the next steps. Here is the video: https://vimeo.com/157390074

Please take any follow on questions to the appropriate thread.

[Chris1981 (Chris)]

Sorry about that. Thanks! I wasn’t looking to actually intergrate it with Smartthings per se. I’m basically looking to know if there is a keypad app I can set this thing to as a default so I can arm and disarm my alarm. That’s why I figured I’d ask on a new thread.

[tgauchat (ActionTiles.com co-founder Terry @ActionTiles; GitHub: @cosmicpuppy)]

@Chris1981

I’m basically looking to know if there is a keypad app I can set this thing to as a default so I can arm and disarm my alarm.

ActionTiles can control SHM arm/disarm with PIN protection, and, with effort, you can run ActionTiles on the Wink Relay, per the preceding linked Topics.