Edit global variables from SmartApp

#1

It would be really useful to have a global variables option in the smartapp, then be able to mark global variables as editable via it. It would be great way to easily alter things like times, thresholds, levels etc. And would increase WAF enabling her to change the cleaner arrival time without having to ask me!

#2

Create an ifttt piston that will alter the global variable via text message from your wife while waiting for it to be implemented :smiley:

#3

I would love this feature also (to make an alarm clock)… I toyed about with a custom DTH with two slider controls (one set for range 1-24 for the hour, the other set to range 1-60 for the minutes)… never got it to work though :frowning:

If only ST gave us a time tile option for the DTH’s.

#4

You have to do what I did.
Take a sound activated relay and a cheap alarm clock. Cut the speakers out and toss them, wire the speaker leads to the microphone input on relay. Connect the dry relay output to a door/window sensor.
Boom. Doesn’t make noise but you have a totally user friendly way to trigger wakeup routines

#5

Nice idea, I never thought of IFTTT. I wounder if I could use Workflow (the iOS app) either/or that would give me a nice interface option and widget.

#6

this is cool. got a parts list that I could start from?

thank you.

#7

I must be slow this morning. What does it do? Close the contact when a sound is heard? What would be a use case for this?

#8

Ya. Tomorrow.

#9

It’s to use an alarm clock to set times for wakeup routines. 100% wife approved. No different than a normal alarm clock other.
And it doesn’t pickup ambient sounds, it’s wired directly from speaker leads to relay microphone input.
I’ll draft a video or a paper plan to show

#10

Oh, I got it now! Thanks. My alarm clock has been setted at the same time for the last 15 years or so. I came to forget some might need to change alarm time regularly. :sushing_face: :thinking:

#11

I’m curious, what made you choose to go hardware instead of, let’s say, IFTTT/SMS integration?

I haven’t tested it but I think we’d be able to send an SMS containing the time (or off) and have IFTTT relay it to webcore who handle the webhooks and set “alarm” at time specified in the SMS?

I reckon, however, that what you did is very very cool!!!

#12

If I can find a way to pass user-defined variables from Tasker/Sharptools to Webcore, I can speed up execution of some things.

#13

not OP but for me its WAF. pickup the clock, set the time and you are done.

now if it was FB messages integration to webcore that would gain a whole different level of WAF :wink:

#14

WebCoRE Facebook chatbot FTW !!

#15

FTW !! er … could we please just WIN without the FB chatbot?

i get to see enough chatter because “family”, this was the safe space :slight_smile: