Its my first day using hubitat. I have a question concerning staying local. I would like to have my tablet display turn on when my hue motion sensor is activated. The only way I could think of to do this is to have hubitat send a push notification to my tablet when motion is detected and have tasker react to it. If there is any other way please tell me.
I was wondering if sending a push notification or using the hubitat app in general will use cloud service....or if I stay local.
I would like to stay local in every respect....thats why I switched to hubitat in the first place.
I already had a bad feeling connecting my hub to my account....
Sounds like you have a good starting idea. Rather than the motion sensor have you checked if there are any camera apps that could check motion directly on the tablet? I assume you want it to "wake up" when someone approaches.
If you are on Android, I would recommend you check out the Fully Kiosk Browse. It has A LOT of functionality and an API you can tap into. I haven't tried this myself but I'm pretty sure it can accomplish what you are looking for.
My guess is there is also a Tasker Auto-App that can receive requests on the LAN (I haven't tried so I don't know), but I have a feeling @Ryan780 or @cwwilson08 might know of something you can use.
I know for iOS there’s a Bluetooth keyboard command to unlock the tablet. I had a similar idea to build an arduino with a motion sensor and Bluetooth keyboard emulation. This was a while ago that I had this idea so now one of those tiny raspberry pi’s might fit the bill better.
Just thought I’d share since i has a similar idea a while ago.
Wow! Fully kiosk browser driver is awesome! So far i've only tested some functions....but these work great!
I have a totally different question now but I dont want to open another thread....
Do you guys know if its possible to remove the top bar from the dashboard? The one that shows the name of the dashboard and also gives you access to settings....I would love to reduce my dashboard to only a background with tiles and nothing else....
Ok thanks. Thats a pity....by the way: is there any other dashboard than the hubitat one that works with the hub and runs locally? I read about sharptools but it appears to run cloud based....or am I wrong?
Hubitat is the only officially supported dashboard that runs locally. In the early goings, I used a ported version of a SmartThings app called SmartTiles (now known as ActionTiles). That was more than a year ago so I don't know if it would still work on current firmware. You would also need to have a copy of the app code already. The developer took down the code and does not allow sharing of it. However if you already have it you can use it with a few modifications.
See this thread
Edit : I forgot there is also a dashboard called HousePanel but I'm not sure if it is completely local. @kewashi can chime in on that.
An HTTP POST is just a message using the HTTP protocol "posting" it to a receiving device. If that device is local to your network then it will stay within there.
I know I'm late to the party, but here is how I would do it...
On the pad, use Tasker and AutoRemote.
Set up an RM rule with a trigger on whichever motion sensors you want to monitor. Action would be "Send HTTP Request" -> "Send HTTP Post" and use your AutoRemote URL to the phone.
Then just make a Tasker profile to act on that AutoRemote event.
