Is my webCore piston dependent on cloud?


#1

I use the Aeon Multisensor 6 humidity detection in combination with a smart switch as a humidistat. Accordingly when the humidity in the room rises too high a piston triggers a smart relay which then causes the dehumidifier to turn on, and when it drops it turns it off.

This works great but a few times I’ve had a significant issue where the internet connection went down for hours or in one case a couple of days and the humidifier got stuck running the whole time, and in another case the humidity rose too much.

I see now that the Aeon Multisensor 6 has support for local control. Am I correct however that webCore still requires an internet connection. And as such it really doesn’t do me any good to switch the Multisensor to local because I am still dependent on the internet for the piston?

I just looked at the device that controls the dehumidifier is a “Z-Wave Switch” and SmartThings say it runs locally. With the switch being local and the Multiesensor being local, maybe I should rework this then not to require a piston at all…

So what I need to remove the webCore dependency is a way to tell SmartThings that when the Humidity of the Multisensor >= x then turn the Z-Wave Switch ON. And when humidity <= y then turn that switch off. How can I do this without using webCore?

Thank you.


#2

The only app that currently runs locally is Smart Lights (depending on Devices and some setup exclusions that would switch it to a cloud based rule) but I don’t believe it offers humidity as a trigger.