HI Matt, Fairly basic one if I wish to run a Piston through Core that for example says \"when Comfort Alarm is SET\".
Do I: If - Capability - Select Alarm - Alarm List - Comfort Alarm - Comparison - IS - Both (being Strobe and siren)? Will that lot apply the logic that \"if the alarm is in SET mode\"?
I cant find anything that simply says is \"SET\". Hope you understand question...
Cheers
David
Hi David
Good question, I think I need to take a look into this further - there isn\'t a native capability for alarm mode, so I think I need to create a new one which will be compatible with CoRE. Leave it with me and i\'ll see what I can do.
Thanks,
Matt
All this looks fantastic but made me wonder (and I speak with no knowledge!), could a skill be written for echo so that it can interact directly with Comfort?
Hi Ian
A skill could be developed for the Echo, but it would need to be executed in the cloud - and the Comfort system currently doesn\'t have any elements which could communicate with it.
I am planning on getting the ST functionality working and then adding on Echo support starting natively with simple functions via WeMo emulation and following with enhanced support via a Skill.
I\'m currently stuffing turkeys, hanging baubles, wrapping presents and controlling very excited children - i\'m planning on spending a couple of days on this between Christmas and the New Year and there should be a new release before 1st Jan with more functionality.
Thanks,
Matt
Hi All
Just to provide an update - the turkey took more stuffing than expected and the children have been running rings around me so I haven\'t had time to do much on this yet.
I\'m spending some time on this later this week and will be releasing an update on or around the weekend. In the meantime, I would be interested in any feedback you have - and in particular if there are any improvements you would like to see added to go onto the rather informal roadmap.
I\'m also looking to get hold of some more end user devices - Google Home is next on the list, and there is a possibility I could add basic functionality to apple homekit via a third party library - let me know if this is of interest.
Thanks,
Matt
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Quote:Hi All
Just to provide an update - the turkey took more stuffing than expected and the children have been running rings around me so I haven\'t had time to do much on this yet.
I\'m spending some time on this later this week and will be releasing an update on or around the weekend. In the meantime, I would be interested in any feedback you have - and in particular if there are any improvements you would like to see added to go onto the rather informal roadmap.
I\'m also looking to get hold of some more end user devices - Google Home is next on the list, and there is a possibility I could add basic functionality to apple homekit via a third party library - let me know if this is of interest.
Thanks,
Matt
Good to hear... I\'ve got 2 Echo dots, a smarthings hub, and an R-PI waiting for me in Blighty, which I hope to be able to get over & collect in the next week or two, so I\'m getting quite excited to start playing with all of this... I\'m also picking up an Apple Watch series 2 when I\'m there, so that\'s double excitement value...
In the meantime, is there anything I should start to bone up on?.... Do I need to get a particular build for the R-PI for instance? Is there anything I would benefit from reading up about that?
I do already have Apple TV, so HomeKit integration might also be something I\'d be interested in having a play with, although I have absolutely no other HomeKit devices...
Cheers.
Paul G
Hey Paul
The instructions for installation are on the GitHub site, but they aren\'t particularly user friendly. I\'m doing some work on an easier installation process (albeit still requiring code pasting on SmartThings) which will simply require you to download a disk image and write it to an SD Card.
I also need to think about an easy upgrade process, so you don\'t have to write a whole new SD Card for a simple update - but that might have to wait a while.
I\'ll be posting the update shortly (hopefully Monday) which will include some of the requests from the forum (doorbell, link to CoRE from alarm mode and state) and a way to easily get log files from the RPi.
Thanks,
Matt
Hi All
Just a quick update; I have abstracted out the Alarm Mode (Day, Night, Away, Vacation of Off) into separate linked switches which will now allow for better control - for example, setting the SmartThings mode using a SmartThings Response in the App or on your watch will correctly set the right mode, and Alarm mode can be used in CoRE logic.
I have also added a doorbell device, so you can make things happen when the Doorbell is pushed (for me I\'m having Sonos announce when I\'m home, and ST take a photo of the porch and send a notification when I\'m out)
I have a little more testing to do and will upload it later this week - apologies for the delay in getting this out.
I shall also release a disk image within the next week which should make installation a whole lot easier, no more funky business with using the command line to install a bunch of stuff onto the RPi - just write an SD Card, plug it in and upload your configuration via a webpage.
Thanks,
Matt
Hi Matt, All
That sounds great and thank you for the update. Look forward to the image as I have only got so far with the instruction on your page... mainly because I have been distracted on other things :-)
I have managed to get my IRIO to work today, which uses counter to send IR commands. Therefore, if you set counter x to 0 it turns the TV on, if you set counter x to 1 it changes the channel to BBC1 etc. This seems to match your development well.
Sorry if I am repeating myself, but what I would like to be able to do is run a response that sets a scene rather that using the scene controllers as this gives me so many more options, something like \"echo turn on Lounge movie\" which dims lights (controlled by comfort counters or flags in my installation) puts on the surround sound (might be done by the universal UCM not played with this yet) turns TV on (using comfort counters again) :-)
Hope to get some more time on the PI this week, but diary looking full so not sure,
Best Wishes Matt, All
Lee
Hi Lee et al;
Again, apologies for the delay in the next release - it\'s really close, just putting the final touches in place.
To keep you in the picture, we have done an awful lot in the background, some of which will be evident in this release - and lots of other stuff which will be announced over the next few weeks.
I anticipate the release will take place early this week, and will be in the form of a Raspberry Pi Disk Image - full instructions for writing this to an SD Card will be provided - you will need an SD Card of at least 4Gb but 8Gb is recommended (as not all 4Gb card are actually 4Gb and those few bytes they shave off may mean the image doesn\'t fit).
The image also provides full web management of the interface - no more command line jiggery pokery - a demo of the interface (just to prove how close we are) can be seen here:
http://www.alphawerk.co.uk/cytech/demo/index You will notice that this includes the ability to update the configuration, start and stop the service, send diagnostics to us for review and even update the software to future versions just by clicking a button.
You may notice the use of alphaWerk. Without giving too much away, this is a signpost to the future of this project and I can\'t wait to reveal more as things pick up.
Thanks again for your interest and as ever any and all feedback is immensely welcome,
Matt