Yes, the Luminara candles are lovely. They flicker permanently though right as they have a “wick”?
I’ve not had a look at MySensors as yet…curious now though.
I have installed yesterday the plugin “Alternate UI” as it provides an alternative to SEG portal with Thingspeak which is integrated with the plugin on the Vera side ( no Lua script needed).
Will play today with the setup on Thinkspeak side to see how it goes
EDIT : Watt + KWH Graphs generated from a smart switch 8)
If you get interested, I have some hardware I purchased but never got very far with. You’re in the UK, though, I believe… shipping would be prohibitive.
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Greate jobb!
What LED candles are these that were so easy to integrate?
The Harmony was already aware of Frostfire as the manufacturer and Mooncandles as the model. Despite that I still had to “learn” from the original remote. The rest, as they say is PLEG :)[/quote]
“aware”, as in the way it’s aware of an AV device and knows the IR codes? What I’m asking is that if this still needs an IR path to work… so you either have to point the remote at them, or ensure that the blaster attached to the harmony hub has line of sight to the candles (so it will work via Vera)?
@DeltaNu1142 I am indeed in the UK. I think you are right re shipping but thanks for thinking of me all the same.
@tomgru Not quite, the Harmony had the manufacturer and the model in its database but the codes did not work so i had to learn from the original remote - they do need reasonable line of sight though as they are IR only.
I’ve just done a little more Harmony / Vera trickery so that now when someone is at my front door - either pressing the doorbell or just moving around , the Harmony hub will switch to my cctv input after pausing live TV. My wife will like this one as she hates answering the door!
Yesterday I added the amount of snow that fell the previous night to the morning announcements. That way I can look at the traffic issues before I get out of bed. And my husband wrote a script to read a local news webpage and pull school closings into a text file. Now I just have to learn how to create a plug-in to pull that into a variable and use it to let us know if school is closed for the day due to weather.
@becky - I’d love any details you’re willing to share on how you did that…it sounds a bit like what Amazon Echo would do with Alexa. I don’t have one of those yet, but I do have an “old-fashioned” Squeezebox that would be good to put that information on…
The snow, or the school closing? The snow was easy. I just pulled in the snow variable from the weather plugin and pushed it to my sonos using a scene and the sonos plugin. There is a lot of code under the sonos plug-in section of this site that is awesome. Maybe it can be modified to use squeezebox?
The school closing is a whole other story. My husband codes scripts in his sleep, so he whipped one up and put it on the vera box, then wrote the text from the website to a file. My job is to figure out how to pull that text into a plug-in somehow so that I pull it in and add it to my sonos announcements. I’ve just started that part and I’m completely overwhelmed, so I’ll let you know when I figure it out.
@becky, I too would be interested in your solution(s), any way to see the “School Closing” script solution? Mike
After reading about the candles (thanks) I decided to dig further info the harmony side of things and I added a disco light we have for the kids into my livingroom install.
I taught harmony the controls and created a scene on vera fire “party” with my tv going onto MTV Dance, lights off, disco light on, amp onto music and bass extend.
The kids loved going into the hall and pressing the disco button on the wall tablet lol
Also got the tv to pause the sky and mute tv (if its Chromecast or ps3) on doorbell ringing 
Some great ideas on this thread
It’s great doing a little steampunk thinking, especially when it involves equipment you already had and just didn’t think to implement before.
For the tv pause, I am going to add a few seconds rewind into the mix to take me back prior to the disturbance.
Lol
I like your thinking!
Great question! i’ll have to see what the script is that my husband wrote. I didn’t write it…he’s the unix script wiz in our house.
I added the iPhone Locator plugin. Easy. Works great.
Oh, and I acquired a ZP100 to expand my Sonos network to outside…
Today I looked out some old plug in sockets I had, 433mhz ones.
I played around with different devices on RFXCOM until I eventually had one device that would turn it on, one that would turn it off!
Created a virtual switch and scenes and now I can use them (within 10 feet of Vera).
I’m going to use one for my lamp, one for turning off my harman kardon that I use for pc sound and one for the LED mood lights under my wall cabinets.
Great feeling when you get some new functionality without paying anything!
What make are the plugs?
status remote plugs rcs-k09
They’re under ?15 for 3.
If you’re interested in doing the same I created a device on the rfx as an energenie light, the unit 1 is on, and unit 2 is off.
Use the house code as your unique id for the plug.
So my 2 devices are shown as seperate lights.
One turns the plug on when you switch it on, and fires nothing when you switch it off.
The other turns the plug off when you switch it on, and nothing when you switch it off lol.
Combined with a virtual and 2 scenes you’re laughing.
Cheers Chris, I have my plugs all set up already. I was really asking because i was surprised at how low the range is for you. Looks like you may have a conflicting protocol maybe.
Today I’ll be removing another 7 or so phantom devices that popped up out of nowhere. Last time they were tied to a humidity sensor. Removing the devices somehow made the sensor disappear, and I had to reinclude that and redo my associated PLEG rules.
Getting real tired of you stuff Vera.
Ah, lol
They’re old plugs and to be fair the range on them with their own remote was only ever 15ft in direct line of site so I didn’t expect anything better.