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.[/quote]
Ah, fair play! 
I integrated my doorbell into Vera using an Ecolink Sensor and a reed relay from Radio Shack. Got the idea from here (http://zwaveworld.com/2015/all-z-wave-articles/how-to/get-started-the-easy-way/z-wave-doorbell-a-hardware-hack/).
I just created a scene to make a Sonos announcement when the sensor is closed. Pretty straightforward and cool.
Today I setup “say the weather” with imperihome.
Then I got back to my head scratching about how the hell I can choose weather to play sound on the tablet in my hall or the Bluetooth speaker in the porch.
It’s been driving me mad.
I’d be happy if it was possible to just set the tablet to do both…
Not so simple!
In the end I found a workaround.
I need to hear tts in the porch for alarm armed, warning for motion detected pre alarm sounding, and disarmed.
Also a warning when attempting to set the alarm if a window is left open.
I need to hear it in the hall when putting the alarm in night mode (door/window sensors only) or spoken warnings like humidity in bathroom high etc.
What I’ve ended up doing is using tasker to disconnect the Bluetooth on a trigger from autovera, play what out needs to then reconnect again.
Works like a charm!
I learned a few new swear words in the process mind lol
And following on from the above…
I’ve improved my alarm PLEG where the system checks if the bathroom window is already open when setting away/night.
If it is open the system returns to home mode and a tts plays either in my porch or hall depending which mode to tell you “the alarm failed to arm as the bathroom window is open”
I then also decided to use a combination of tasker/auto vera to silence the tablet alarm clock.
As the tablet is in the main hall just outside our room.
It goes off at 07:30 for us to get the kids up for school.
If one of us is already up we will set the “wake” mode on the tablet (imperihome & a Vera virtual switch) which puts the hiss into home mode, disables the alarm system, turns on a few lamps, off a few night lights and turns the tv on with harmony.
I’ve used tasker to check between 00:00 and 12:00, if wake mode is enabled between these times it automatically turns the tablets alarm volume to zero.
At 12:00 the volume returns to 5.
Next I’m going to setup an alarm acknowledge on both our phones using tasker and auto remote so we can both turn the alarm on the tablet off from bed lol
Only peripherally related to Vera… I added a Sonos ZP100 (legacy version of Connect:Amp) this week. I’m very impressed with a couple of capabilities this brings:
[ul][li]drives outside speakers directly; could be routed through a distribution amp[/li]
[li]adds local line-in capability for the whole Sonos system[/li][/ul]
My line-in is connected to the living room TV. I can now send that signal anywhere there’s a Sonos device. I knew there was a line-in, but I wasn’t clear on whether it sent the signal everywhere else. It does… and without noticeable lag.
I finished my pi based web solution for running HA through wall mounted ipads. I used a 3D modeler to create floor plans, and then have customized pages for each room. Still needs to be tweaked, but it is a working proof of concept and all of the rooms work correctly.
Cool
I’d love to see the product.
My plan was always to use Sweet Home 3D for the modeling, and HomeWave installed on an iPad for the UI. That’s a goal of mine for later this year.
I plugged in a waterpik aquafloss into a GE Z wave outlet in my bathroom and turned it one while my wife was getting ready for work…I’m banned from Z wave for a while.
Keeping the marriage exciting.
Nice!
The good news is, Z-wave can also automate your doghouse.
Get a VeraPlus and then you can use Zigbee to play the next prank on her. 
Unpaired a smoke sensor, PIR sensor and water sensor from my UI7 Vera and added same to the CMS beta unit for testing. This’ll be fun as the Vision smoke sensor is currently in tripped mode until hopefully the nightly heal fixes that.
Didn’t the audible clunk tip her off?
I’d love to see the product.
My plan was always to use Sweet Home 3D for the modeling, and HomeWave installed on an iPad for the UI. That’s a goal of mine for later this year.[/quote]
This explanation is probably longer than needed, so please ignore it if it is too much. I have attached a couple images that correspond with the solution as it currently works.
My setup is quite convoluted and everything somehow is integrated with my Vera 3.
The system consists of:
A Vera 3
Three Raspberry Pi?s
Two Amazon Echos
Two Harmony Hubs
2 Foscam IP Cams
16 analog cameras through a DVR
Multiple URC RF remotes
IR repeaters
3 IP9000 Analog to IP converters
Craftsman networked garage door opener
Mimolite device for non-networked garage door
Too many z-wave devices and sensors to list (or admit to)
I used Sweet Home 3D as my software for setting up the floor plan for the three levels of my house. There is also an exterior section, but that is just a picture of the outside of the house. Attachments one and two show two of the floors. You will notice a small camera icon in the upper left hand corner. This toggles between the camera version and the non-camera version of a given page. The reason for this is my wife didn?t want the cameras on the display when she uses them. All links for camera version link to other camera pages, the same for links on a non-camera page. The first floor page is fed by cameras from my security system that are run through an IP9000 converter to create an IP feed of the camera. Each camera refreshes at a set interval, but is not streaming video.
I use one pi (partially) as the web server that hosts the pages. The other pis are used for Echo bridge and IR ingestion (URC remote kicks off scenes on the vera). The default page is the first floor floorplan so the page exists as index.html. I just use the ip address of the pi as the URL and haven?t implemented any kind of DNS service, though I would like to (think just typing home.html into any browser on the network routes to the IP).
On floor plan screens light bulbs, outlets, and fans indicate controllable devices. Clicking on any of these icons will toggle the state of whatever it is (a lit light will turn off, an off light will be turned on, etc.) You will see on the floor plan screens that some of the light bulb icons are lit and some are not. I want to create a function that returns state for all devices on page load and the icons should actually represent the state of a given device at the time. Read: Device status is 1, 1 is put into a variable, the image is called light1.png. If the status is 0, the displayed image will be light0.png. This shouldn?t be that difficult to do, but I haven?t gotten to that point yet. If anyone wants to send me some code that will do this I would be greatly appreciative and if anyone wants samples of the code that I?m using I?m happy to provide it.
Individual room screens are a little more granular. There are generally three buttons for each device. One toggles state, one turns on, one turns off. For dimmable lights there is also a slider and an apply button. Macros that work across all devices (and/or floors) also appear on some pages.
The attached Family room screen has a live camera that is fed from one of the Foscam cameras. This is a stream, not a refreshed image. You will also notice that the screen has a couple of TV specific commands which are routed through a Harmony hub.
I used Paint and Gimp as my image manipulation options. The images are optimized to work on an iPad, since that is the tablet that I plan on mounting in wall. Assuming the POC passes muster in the basement, I will add additional ones on the first and second floors of the house.
I added my eggminder to the wink controller and then downloaded the wink plug-in. Technically I can have the morning announcements remind me if I need to get more eggs if it’s less than 3. It’s the little things.
I’d love to see the product.
My plan was always to use Sweet Home 3D for the modeling, and HomeWave installed on an iPad for the UI. That’s a goal of mine for later this year.[/quote]
This explanation is probably longer than needed, so please ignore it if it is too much. I have attached a couple images that correspond with the solution as it currently works.
My setup is quite convoluted and everything somehow is integrated with my Vera 3.
The system consists of:
A Vera 3
Three Raspberry Pi?s
Two Amazon Echos
Two Harmony Hubs
2 Foscam IP Cams
16 analog cameras through a DVR
Multiple URC RF remotes
IR repeaters
3 IP9000 Analog to IP converters
Craftsman networked garage door opener
Mimolite device for non-networked garage door
Too many z-wave devices and sensors to list (or admit to)
I used Sweet Home 3D as my software for setting up the floor plan for the three levels of my house. There is also an exterior section, but that is just a picture of the outside of the house. Attachments one and two show two of the floors. You will notice a small camera icon in the upper left hand corner. This toggles between the camera version and the non-camera version of a given page. The reason for this is my wife didn?t want the cameras on the display when she uses them. All links for camera version link to other camera pages, the same for links on a non-camera page. The first floor page is fed by cameras from my security system that are run through an IP9000 converter to create an IP feed of the camera. Each camera refreshes at a set interval, but is not streaming video.
I use one pi (partially) as the web server that hosts the pages. The other pis are used for Echo bridge and IR ingestion (URC remote kicks off scenes on the vera). The default page is the first floor floorplan so the page exists as index.html. I just use the ip address of the pi as the URL and haven?t implemented any kind of DNS service, though I would like to (think just typing home.html into any browser on the network routes to the IP).
On floor plan screens light bulbs, outlets, and fans indicate controllable devices. Clicking on any of these icons will toggle the state of whatever it is (a lit light will turn off, an off light will be turned on, etc.) You will see on the floor plan screens that some of the light bulb icons are lit and some are not. I want to create a function that returns state for all devices on page load and the icons should actually represent the state of a given device at the time. Read: Device status is 1, 1 is put into a variable, the image is called light1.png. If the status is 0, the displayed image will be light0.png. This shouldn?t be that difficult to do, but I haven?t gotten to that point yet. If anyone wants to send me some code that will do this I would be greatly appreciative and if anyone wants samples of the code that I?m using I?m happy to provide it.
Individual room screens are a little more granular. There are generally three buttons for each device. One toggles state, one turns on, one turns off. For dimmable lights there is also a slider and an apply button. Macros that work across all devices (and/or floors) also appear on some pages.
The attached Family room screen has a live camera that is fed from one of the Foscam cameras. This is a stream, not a refreshed image. You will also notice that the screen has a couple of TV specific commands which are routed through a Harmony hub.
I used Paint and Gimp as my image manipulation options. The images are optimized to work on an iPad, since that is the tablet that I plan on mounting in wall. Assuming the POC passes muster in the basement, I will add additional ones on the first and second floors of the house.[/quote]
@mjbok - your layout is FANTASTIC!
So are you using Homewave for your tablet interface? I don’t like Apple stuff, but I’d really like a interface like you have. I’ve looked into Homewave alternatives and haven’t taken the time to implement anything just yet.
Thanks for sharing your details. I certainly appreciated them.
Today I banged my head against a brick wall in frustration lol
I’d love to see the product.
My plan was always to use Sweet Home 3D for the modeling, and HomeWave installed on an iPad for the UI. That’s a goal of mine for later this year.[/quote]
This explanation is probably longer than needed, so please ignore it if it is too much. I have attached a couple images that correspond with the solution as it currently works.
My setup is quite convoluted and everything somehow is integrated with my Vera 3.
The system consists of:
A Vera 3
Three Raspberry Pi?s
Two Amazon Echos
Two Harmony Hubs
2 Foscam IP Cams
16 analog cameras through a DVR
Multiple URC RF remotes
IR repeaters
3 IP9000 Analog to IP converters
Craftsman networked garage door opener
Mimolite device for non-networked garage door
Too many z-wave devices and sensors to list (or admit to)
I used Sweet Home 3D as my software for setting up the floor plan for the three levels of my house. There is also an exterior section, but that is just a picture of the outside of the house. Attachments one and two show two of the floors. You will notice a small camera icon in the upper left hand corner. This toggles between the camera version and the non-camera version of a given page. The reason for this is my wife didn?t want the cameras on the display when she uses them. All links for camera version link to other camera pages, the same for links on a non-camera page. The first floor page is fed by cameras from my security system that are run through an IP9000 converter to create an IP feed of the camera. Each camera refreshes at a set interval, but is not streaming video.
I use one pi (partially) as the web server that hosts the pages. The other pis are used for Echo bridge and IR ingestion (URC remote kicks off scenes on the vera). The default page is the first floor floorplan so the page exists as index.html. I just use the ip address of the pi as the URL and haven?t implemented any kind of DNS service, though I would like to (think just typing home.html into any browser on the network routes to the IP).
On floor plan screens light bulbs, outlets, and fans indicate controllable devices. Clicking on any of these icons will toggle the state of whatever it is (a lit light will turn off, an off light will be turned on, etc.) You will see on the floor plan screens that some of the light bulb icons are lit and some are not. I want to create a function that returns state for all devices on page load and the icons should actually represent the state of a given device at the time. Read: Device status is 1, 1 is put into a variable, the image is called light1.png. If the status is 0, the displayed image will be light0.png. This shouldn?t be that difficult to do, but I haven?t gotten to that point yet. If anyone wants to send me some code that will do this I would be greatly appreciative and if anyone wants samples of the code that I?m using I?m happy to provide it.
Individual room screens are a little more granular. There are generally three buttons for each device. One toggles state, one turns on, one turns off. For dimmable lights there is also a slider and an apply button. Macros that work across all devices (and/or floors) also appear on some pages.
The attached Family room screen has a live camera that is fed from one of the Foscam cameras. This is a stream, not a refreshed image. You will also notice that the screen has a couple of TV specific commands which are routed through a Harmony hub.
I used Paint and Gimp as my image manipulation options. The images are optimized to work on an iPad, since that is the tablet that I plan on mounting in wall. Assuming the POC passes muster in the basement, I will add additional ones on the first and second floors of the house.[/quote]
@mjbok - your layout is FANTASTIC!
So are you using Homewave for your tablet interface? I don’t like Apple stuff, but I’d really like a interface like you have. I’ve looked into Homewave alternatives and haven’t taken the time to implement anything just yet.
Thanks for sharing your details. I certainly appreciated them. :)[/quote]
Thanks for the compliment. I remembered that I got the basic idea from here months ago, but hadn’t pursued it for awhile, and going back it is in the Homewave thread that I saw examples I used for the base floor plan.
I preferred not to go the Apple route, but it just worked out that I got several ipad mini’s on the cheap and I designed the interface to match with the resolution of the tablets so no scrolling is necessary. I’d love to actually check out homewave, but they don’t have a demo so unless I find someone that has it I will stick with my setup.
Also (since I missed this part originally in my response), no I’m not using Homewave. Just have a pi running an apache server that hosts several web pages. I’ve looked at and used several (free and paid) apps in both the ios and Android gardens and none of them did exactly what I wanted to do, though I do envy some of the features in some of the apps. By writing the pages myself I’m only constrained by my imagination, time, and what code I can steal borrow from other people/places.
Using the PLEG logic here and the Say The Weather plugin, I set up Vera to, uh, say the weather, the first time someone walks downstairs in the morning each day. It worked like a charm this morning.