Gardena Smart System

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@SmartHomePrimer I think you can turn that off in the Alexa app.

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Haven't found that. Please show me if you know where it is.

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Do you have brief mode enabled?

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No and donā€™t want it enabled. If thatā€™s the only way, they need to change that.

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As far as i know thatā€™s the only way you can do it right now.

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Hi,
Sadly not any closer at all. I dont have any skills in programming so I was hoping that somebody else would/could do it... :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

I think their system from 2020 and bakwards are using wifi. Their new one from 2021 are using Bluetooth.

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Brief modes supplies a ding. Has anyone attempted simply muting the alexa device?

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I would add my support for this. I have a fair-sized Gardena system installed.

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In the end I managed to do this with Homebridge Running on a Raspberry Pi. The Gardena kit works well on Homekit, so it is touchable with a virtual device with a virtual Homebridge device and a Homekit automation behind that.

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I guess that could be a solution if there are absolutly no other possibilities for me. Itā€™s not the solution I hoped for but as long as it worksā€¦

Do you have to have a rasberry pi or could you do this with just an Apple TV?

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If you're doing it on an apple TV you still neeed something on the HE side to trigger the Homekit automation part. I'm using Homebridge and the HE app to push a button that triggers the Homekit App. If you've got an IFTTT account, you could probably use a virtual HE trigger for the Gardena skill using that instead of Apple.

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I have a bunch of other Homekit automations, so Homebridge was a no-brainer for me. You need to be comfortable setting up a Linux environment and using command lines to do the installs on the Raspberry Pi, but otherwise not hard.

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Thats the problem. Iā€™m not comfortable in the Linux enviroment and with Raspberry Pieā€™s.

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A virtual event in HE to trigger the Gardenia IFTTT then? That's fairly plug and play.

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That may work. If ITTT supports Gardena that is. I would prefer not to use IFTTT because of their greedy behaviour against their customers butā€¦

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There is a Gardena skill for IFTTT. I've not used it, but all you really need is turn on/off. There are plenty of irrigation tools to play with in HE.

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Thats good news. :grinning::+1: I havent scanned the forum for this yet but that sounds promising.

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See:

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A good step in the right direcrion but that is for their lawn movers and not their watering system.