Hi All,
I tried to do a search, but I couldn’t get it to display anything to see if this has been discussed already. Smart Home Monitor appears to have the ability to take action (e.g. turn on lights, sound a siren, etc.) when it receives an “intrusion” alarm. Can this be added to “Smart Home Status” within WebCoRE? As of now, I only see the options of looking for states of disarmed,armed/stay, and armed/away. Thanks!
I created a simulated switch which then SHM turns on if there is an intrusion alarm. Then I use WebCore to do all the rest of the stuff based on that switch.
Mind if I take a look at your piston, please? I’m not familiar with how you did it, but I’d love to learn…thanks
Basically what I did was create a simulated switch, called Alarm Triggered (in the piston shot it is called switch 9). This is turned on from SHM if an intrusion is detected. Then the following piston notifies me what item was triggered and turns on all the automatic lights in the house. I am still letting SHM control my siren as it is easier to control how long the siren stays on. I will probably add this function to my webcore piston one of these days. An alternative method of course would be to let webcore monitor all the devices when the alarm is enabled and then SHM does nothing.
Very nice…How did you set up the SHM side? I was able to add the simulated switch in the IDE and it’s populating to both ST and WebCoRE, but not to SHM…
Go into the setup for SHM, the little gear icon. Pick security and keep going forward to the screen that says Configure Intrusion alarm notifications. Select Alert with Lights. You should be able to select it there.
I figured out how SHM notifies the virtual switch. Then, using your example, I was able to get WebCoRE to execute a further command. The way I tested that part is I turned on the virtual switch “thing” in ST and which caused the piston to fire. But, when I fully tested the piston by setting off the alarm system, it didn’t fire. I went back and looked at both the activities for my security system under things in ST and I could see the intrusion activation, etc. The problem lies in the SHM. When I look at activities for the alarm there, there’s nothing. What’s strange is everything works fine, including SHM reflecting the status of the system (armed, etc). Not sure what your integration is to link your alarm to ST, but I’m using a custom smart app, etc.
Not sure what you are doing. I use SHM to control the alarm. Then it sets the simulated switch if an alarm occurs. It works great and always has.
Everything works perfectly…except it’s not receiving the alarm condition …are you using an alarm directly connecting to smartthings or is it separate, running on a server? I know it’s something simple, lol!
SHM is the alarm controller. If you are using some kind of external alarm, then I’m not sure what you do.
Sorry for the dredge. At the moment, when SHM away armed is triggered with motion sensors, all of my lights in the house come on and the color bulbs turn on red. What I’d like to be able to do is have the lights flash rather than just be on. Is this possible? WebCoRE noob here
It looks like there is a flash command…you can try that (add a task.)
Also, I have LIFX and see these potential options:
Hi,
Sorry to reopen this, but i am curious how this behavior would work when you get an alarm is tripped and you dismiss it for instance. Would it then turn off the switch? I find it that right now when SHM gets tripped the lights come on, right, but when i dismiss the alarm the lights don’t seem to turn back off. This means or tells me that the virtual switch you use to trigger a custom alarm flow will not stop executing after you dismiss the alarm in your SHM section of the app.
In your case, @Jwwhite, when you have your alarmed tripped it just sends you a text and turns on a light which is the same thing you would get from SHM natively. The only difference is you can perhaps do more with it. The problem with doing more with the piston, such as play something through a sonos speaker, and have it stop automatically when you dismiss a trigger. You would actually have to disarm the alarm and re arm it just to get the speaker to stop playing the tone you set it to play.
I sort of wish the SHM had natively an option to have the lights flash as that is the only thing that is missing for me. OR for webcore to have a trigger that clearly states “SHM has been triggered” AND likewise “SHM triggered has been dismissed”.
EDIT: What i also wanted to add is that right now using SHM natively to play an alarm sound through my sonos speakers which are all over the condo natively i really like. My girlfriend has accidentally tripped the alarm and i like that you can’t just go over to the speaker and dismiss the tone by pressing the pause button. You have to go to your phone to dismiss it. Which is a good thing as it forces you to go look at it. The only thing i don’t like is the fact you can’t natively flash the lights of and on to really give an alarm feel to it. That is the only thing i wanted to add. It seems that using this virtual switch is doable the only thing is you have to always disarm and rearm the alarm system whenever you want to dismiss a flase trigger or any trigger for that matter.
Thanks
M
