I’m a HUGE fan of Jimmy Diresta (https://www.youtube.com/user/jimmydiresta), so this was my first attempt at making a similar style video of another thing I’m a big fan of… home automation.
I’ve done a lot of home automation (science) projects with Arduino, and then moving to Raspberry Pi and Google Cloud Messaging. Late last year I decided to try out SmartThings, and I’m VERY happy with that decision. They have a great site for developing your own Z-Wave “device types” as well as Smart Apps. This allows you to easily transform one device into another, as well as add custom icons, text, and notifications (SMS or Android).
Thanks! Yea, it was something fun to do as we were snowed in (Wisconsin) for Super Bowl Sunday. I did a lot of shoveling in between takes.
Another thing to note, the music at the end is coming from the phone. I used Tasker to see the notification from SmartThings and then play a simple mp3.
@baconface if you are looking for an easy way to get started with Tasker, I would recommend checking out SharpTools.
SharpTools provides a set of Tasker plugins for controlling your devices/phrases/modes and makes it easy to subscribe to device attributes or mode changes so you can react to push events on your phone.
Hi @baconface (Jared),
In this case, it was a very trival exercise to do Tasker. The steps are
create a new profile of type “Event”
In that Event select “UI” sub category, and “Notification” sub sub category
There you will chose smartthings app as the owner application and then stick in the push notification text exactly as it shows up in the notification tray.
Then create a new task
in that task, add the sub category “Media” and the sub sub category “Music Play”
choose your mp3 and you’re done!
Note you need to make sure to enable push notifications in SmartThings app and again, match the text you put in SmartThings push message to the event above in step 3
I learned tasker from these tutorials. It’s updated a bit from the time of this writing, but I don’t think by enough to matter. I have a long commute so it was perfect for playing with just about every possible sub category of profiles and tasks. Part of the trick to Tasker for me was, learn the basic concepts of a profile and then a task, and then just play and try every option.
On my trap, the force of the closing always caused the magnet to fly off, so I made couple of modifications. I screwed it on the bottom and also screwed the case down.
Made this because I thought I heard a noise in the attic. Placed this up there and within 24 hours caught four mice, first in 20 minutes! Two notifications were when I was away from home.
This solution was real handy in my case because my attic access is difficult.
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