Hi, I have several Wink Relays through my house. Sadly I am not the best coder, but is it possible to make a smart app and make smartthings and wink relay work together. Any input is welcome, thanks!
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You can’t make them work together directly, but you can run smart things app on the wink relay hardware so you can repurpose it. See the following:
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
Thank you for showing me that link! Do you know by chance how you can exit the wink app on the wink relay?
Sorry, I don’t, but if you ask in that thread one of the folks there should know.
JZst
December 20, 2017, 6:39am
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Here’s my attempt at integrating and it works great with all of expectations:
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 …