HSM Status Light Ideas

I want to put a small status light somewhere next to all exterior doors that are red when the HSM is armed (armed night mode) and either off or green when the HSM is disarmed. I know I could put a smart strip somewhere by the door or even make a smart bulb near the door red but I was hoping for a easier application. This way it will remind someone from the inside that the system is armed so they don'[t forget and set the alarm off in the middle of the night (happened this morning).

Or any other ideas of what you are using for this??

Any help or additional ideas would be appreciated!

Shaun

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A few ideas...

If you have a need for a smart switch/dimmer, the HomeSeer HS-WS200+ or HS-WD200+ have an RGB LED (many in the case of the dimmer) that you can set to a specific color. You could make it match HSM status. (I'm thinking of making mine match location mode, but the truth is that I haven't done anything at all with it yet.)

HomeSeer also has the HSM200 Multi-Sensor, but it's mostly a motion sensor with, again, an optionally colored LED. You could do something similar with that. (I never tried one of these because of the mixed reviews.) This one plugs in like a nightlight, so you have more options and don't have to replace a switch.\

I'm pretty sure there's also a new product, maybe one I saw at CES, but I can't remember what it was now. Maybe somone can remind me or tell me I was dreaming.

You can also go overboard and use a wall-mounted tablet with a dashboard and an HSM tile. :slight_smile:

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Why not just a big dashboard tile with template colours applied?

Have you gotten custom colors to work for a HSM tile in a dashborad? I can't.

Thought that was just me :joy::rofl:
My dashboard crashes when I try to choose the colour.
@patrick is aware of this :smiley:

Mine doesn't crash it just doesn't display anything except the default color.

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Crash is a harsh word for reloading the page due to an Android default of pull down to refresh. You still can type the color in the box, though correct?

Dashboards are great and I use Sharptools and I have some really neat looking ones that would work great for this but I just don't want one mounted on the wall. Now with Alexa and other home assistants I am finding the need for a fixed tablet is becoming more and more unnecessary.

This dimmer is almost exactly what I wanted so I may do something like this unless someone comes up with something else!!

I've thought about one of these multiple times. If they were about 50% the price I would go for it. But $70 usd seems steep for what it does.

Another option is an Aeotec Smart Switch (or Dimmer) 6. There are ways to adjust the LED on those as well (custom driver unfortunately), and it would be more useful (to me) than the HSM motion sensor.

https://www.zwaveoutlet.com/products/homeseer-z-wave-multi-sensor

It is expensive. Maybe just a color bulb hanging somewhere.

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Writing does nothing? Unless has to be Hex? I can try that when I'm back home

I've always thought these were cool devices and then saw how expensive they were and was like WTF?!? I was going to wire up something similar using Hubduino. I have a couple extra boards and a bunch of extra LEDs so I just have to find a project box I like.

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Centralite 3420-G if you can find one... Still $70+ though.

Somebody is trying to get $99 for one of those on Amazon. Come on! How wrong is that?

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This is the cheapest non-homemade non-light bulb solution I can think of. Takes a custom driver to manipulate the LED the way you would wan't but is doable. $34.

This is a cool one!! Maybe I should start learning groovy ugh......

I just ordered this:
€ 0,50 | 16mm Metal Momentary Push Button Switch LED
https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/G07Ogay

Then I will strip down a zigbee Glepodo driver (
https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/cbg7eM9S )for rgb colours and an on/off zigbee switch (
https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/cBYloTgyil)
l do a nice box for all the components.

Hopefully it will be a fun project.

P.s I have opted for ordering the 5v version of the items. Total cost 26€

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Wow, let me know how this goes, as I will give it a go, once you get it all up and running. Looks awesome.

Parts coming from China so will take a time.
I have another parallel project I need to go to IKEA tomorrow.

Yes, anything HTML formatted works, hex, rgb, rgba or named colors should work as well. The pop-up color picker is there just for ease of entry. I believe it returns rgba values.