That’s the goal! Although, it looks like it may end up being just be another way to feed my own addiction.
Friends don’t let friends use a Vera 
TRUE ! this usually backfires in a lifetime of free on-site support 
I added a new user to Vera. Found a stray German Shepherd this weekend. She gets along with my other 3 so she’ll be tracked by Vera/BI’s camera’s as well.
TRUE ! this usually backfires in a lifetime of free on-site support :P[/quote]
Yes, I was more of less counting on this… although, I havent heard from him and it’s been ME that has has this niggling urge to go improve stuff…
Today I added two motion sensors to replace the two that succumbed to rain. I don’t know why I thought they’d be OK outside. I have a couple of waterproof boxes on the way to transplant the sensor innards into.
can you recoment somethings for Cameras ?
like a transparent plastic box or somethings ? i want to put a IPCam on the Electric Pole Near my House … but not really willing to buy a outside-cam.
I have a Hikvision non-PTZ camera made for outside… but, no, I can’t recommend anything you couldn’t find on your own. This will be my first time enclosing any Z-Wave stuff for protection from the elements. This is what I ordered… I wish the box had arrived today, but I won’t get it until Monday:
[url=http://amzn.com/B00REFK1A8]http://amzn.com/B00REFK1A8[/url]
I also ordered some battery sockets to place in the enclosure. The way the sensors are built, it would be difficult at best to use the existing battery terminals:
[url=http://amzn.com/B00FGVET7S]http://amzn.com/B00FGVET7S[/url]
Completed and installed my waterproof gate sensors from hacked-up Aeon Labs door sensors.
2@Vera 3 / UI5
Complete installation of 7 @ Vision ZS6101 Smoke Detectors (Monoprice). Because functioning Smoke Detectors are critical as a check on their operation I created PLEG code to notify me via SMS/Pushover if any of them fail to Wake Up within a 2 hour window.
This morning I installed another light switch. Just yesterday, I received a handful of new relay switches which should enough to finish the whole house. That will be a relief to both me and my wife, who has in the last year developed a hatred for the sight of wires dangling from an open gang box.
Since I recently received my VeraEdge about a week ago, I have installed and setup the following:
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3 Linear W015Z Z-Wave Single Wall Outlet
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1 Ecolink Door/Window Sensor
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1 GE 12722 Lighting Control Switch
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1 Aeon Labs Appliance Switch (need to figure out PLEG to pull power usage from it)
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Installed AutoVera on my Android phone and connected it to my VeraEdge, now I just need to setup a few Tasker profiles
Looking for recommendations for a reliable Z-Wave thermostat and a Security system that I can integrate with my Z-Wave setup.
-jbw
Looks good. Are you putting the normal magnet on the other side of gate? Would love more info on this–getting reliable sensors on our gates is on my to do list.
Thanks–yes, just the Aeon Labs-supplied magnet on the other side… but you could use any strong magnet. I assume if you had some cheap rare-earth bar magnets, you could increase the range a little bit. That was a problem I had with the original sensors–aside from the fact that they weren’t weatherproof. The gaps in my gates are less than 1", but I still had to get creative with mounting them to get the sensor to pick up the magnet. With these, the sensor box is big enough that there’s plenty of surface area to stick tape to… meaning I can just slide them closer to the magnet. They’re bigger, but way more flexible in terms of mounting.
I created a new free iOS app. The app has 1 today extension for favorite scenes and Apple Watch support is on the way. The app currently supports UI5 only. Please, check it out - https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/app/homepal-for-vera/id1003525731?mt=8
My Vera is now announcing (in the home centralized speaker system) who is calling me on my Android cell phone. (If I’m at home) When/if my mother in law calls me, the kitchen bar LED turns red. :-X
First I use Tasker on my Android phone to set a variable, e.g. the text to be spoken (%CNAME in tasker)
After that Tasker invokes a scene on my Vera that speaks whatever is set in the “SpeakThis” variable.
Maybe it could have been done in a better way but this works great. ;D
Brilliant! I need this. Except that my kitchen would be constantly turning red. Five minutes after she leaves the house, she calls and keeps my wife on the phone for 20 minutes.
I added Text To Speech notifications to Vera Alert.
Now my phone verbally tells me “The Garage Door was opened”
And tons of other notifications.
Configured a scheduled backup of both Veras using Task Scheduler on a Windows machine that runs Blue Iris. The backup runs at 1:00 PM every day and saves the file to Dropbox. When the backup completes using wget/http it sets two Multiswitchs in one of the Veras to indicate that it has run. About 1:10 PM a PLEG scheduled task runs in the Vera to check if the backup switches are set. If it has run PLEG logs this to SysLog; if not it logs the failure to SysLog and sends a SMS to my smartphone that the backup did not complete.
The batch file for Windows Scheduler:
REM Backup Vera 1
wget -O "Vera_xxxxxxxx_Mios.%date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%_%time:~-11,2%%time:~-8,2%%time:~-5,2%.backup" http://192.168.xxx.xxx/cgi-bin/cmh/backup.sh
REM set status in Vera 2 when the backup has run
wget --spider "http://192.168.xxx.yyy:3480/data_request?id=lu_action&DeviceNum=1650&serviceId=urn:dcineco-com:serviceId:MSwitch1&action=SetStatus6&newStatus6=1"
REM Backup Vera 1
wget -O "Vera_xxxxxxxx_Mios.%date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%_%time:~-11,2%%time:~-8,2%%time:~-5,2%.backup" http://192.168.xxx.yyy/cgi-bin/cmh/backup.sh
REM set status in Vera 2 when the backup has run
wget --spider "http://192.168.xxx.yyy:3480/data_request?id=lu_action&DeviceNum=1650&serviceId=urn:dcineco-com:serviceId:MSwitch1&action=SetStatus5&newStatus5=1"Windows Scheduler Setup
Run “C:\Documents and Settings\Zbox\Desktop\BackupBothVera.bat”
Start In: “C:\Documents and Settings\Zbox\My Documents\Dropbox\Vera Backup”
Added a Door Bell sensor using a EcoLink Door/Window Sensor with a external magnetic reed switch. I had planned to wire a 24v relay to the bell button but someone on the forum mentions using a reed switch glued to the chime solenoid. So I tested that and it worked fine.
The sensor triggers a SysLog event, a SMS to my phone, along with an ImperiHome TTS announcement and page switch to the ImperiHome display page for the front entry cameras.for right now. I’m adding HTTP commands to force Blue Iris to record the front entry cameras when the bell is activated.
[quote=“clippermiami, post:889, topic:172785”]2@Vera 3 / UI5
Complete installation of 7 @ Vision ZS6101 Smoke Detectors (Monoprice). Because functioning Smoke Detectors are critical as a check on their operation I created PLEG code to notify me via SMS/Pushover if any of them fail to Wake Up within a 2 hour window.[/quote]
Vera 3, UI5, 1.5.672
Yesterday I had the first REAL smoke incident with the new detectors and found something interesting.
Previously I had obtained some aerosol detector tester (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001B3BL0S?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00) for periodic testing of the detectors. When I used this stuff the sendor sounds for anywhere etween one to three minutes and Vera reports it as expected. The test eventually times out and the sensor resets itself.
Yesterday I was cooking and created a bit more smoke than usual and the detector went off. (Million dollar idea here: A smoke detector that voice recognizes the phrase “I’m cooking stupid” and shuts itself off) Anyway, the kitchen detector sounded, Vera alerted as expected, sent SMS and turned on all the lights that were programmed to go on to provide a path to a door. The alarm stopped sounding after a few minutes but it never reset itself and continued to show tripped in Vera. I found that a quick press of the test button caused it to chirp three times and it reset in Vera.
But it was most interesting that with the chemical smoke detector test fluid it tripped and reset itself whereas with actual smoke it required a manual reset. Something new every day 