Despite some months since my last post my smarthome has continued to progress, in purchases and use cases.
I have now successfully migrated from Smartthings v1 (US) to v2 (UK) only losing one integration in the process Voice control of my lights from Alexa (Fire TV) A smart (Misfit) button to control my lights Various links between my car and its new OBD2 adapter and the Nest thermostat to prepare home state and to say I'm away automatically Have the Ring doorbell raise the lighting level of the front door lamp for 5 minutes with the IFTTT integration and the excellent "Smartrules" app Control the gas fireplace from my control of choice in this case the Logitech Harmony remote
The last one is still a creative way of linking up the fireplace. I have a Meritek Maxitrol controller and with some trial and error I could see that connecting pins 1 & 3 of a plug socket ready for a proprietary wall switch this would trigger on & off of the fireplace. So these were connected to a Wemo maker (Made by Belkin, who incidentally have 800k Consumer devices in use globally) this in turn connects again via IFTTT to a Smartthings virtual switch and then onto the Harmony remote. The IFTTT channel for Wemo maker had the perfect scenario I needed: "On for two seconds and then off" enabling the Harmony to take control and banish another (RF remote) to the drawer and no more holding two buttons for 5 seconds either!
So IFTTT has its use and now also enables use cases where it can be automated (I would likely use Smartrules to allow really an IF this and this condition to trigger) Eg: IF motion detected in a certain area AND certain time of day AND Nest is below 20C. It could nicely complement the slow speed of underfloor heating controlled by the Nest.
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Pieter Degraeuwe
13/6/2016 11:43:08 am
Just curious..where did you buy your second-generation smartthings hub?
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SmartThingsEurope
13/6/2016 11:51:13 am
That's correct I got it in the UK, I do get quite some interest in Europe on it so do consider opening the store element of this blog to fulfill!
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Rob
23/7/2016 08:28:39 pm
My experience is that both th US and the UK version work everywhere (in my case in Spain and the Netherlands) as long as you activate it with the country you bought it in. The only thing you have to take into consideration is that the zwave freq in the US is different from the one in Europe including th UK. Also the zigbee power of the US motion sensors is "boosted" but I have not sensed a diff in real life. Also the sensors are obv made in the same factory so its hard to distinguish them from each other. But if its true, buy the hub in the UK (pound is low now since the Brextit too :) and the sensors in the US. I'm still desperately searching for a smart 220V euro wall outlet. The Fibaro does not work and havent found another one yet. Any ideas welcome.
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Eirik
30/8/2016 12:58:33 am
I live in Denmark, and I bought a sealed and brand new second gen US smarthings hub through a private seller online. - When setting it up, I chose US as region, and it accepted my authorization code without complaints, and was working without issues out of the box, - But after 3 weeks problem free use, the hub went offline without warning, and won't reactivate nomatter what I do.
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Stacy
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Fantastic that you have controlled your maxitrol with wemo,
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