I have set up a multi-color LED light bulb to light up Blue when Mode = Night and Red when Mode = Away and to turn off when Mode = Home. The problem is that the bulb it just too big to put somewhere that it does not make my wife unhappy. What I would like to do is use something like THIS product that can be plugged into an outlet visible from the front door. I want some of my users/guests to be able to see the status of the alarm before entering the house. My Kindle Fire Alarm panel goes to sleep so can't be awakened from outside. Otherwise that would show the alarm status.
My question is whether or not anyone here has done such a project or even tried this device? I have read that even though it does not say so others have had success getting it to work with SmartThings so I am wondering if I would be successful getting to work with HE. It is a Zwave Plus device.
I have my LEDs set to do this but for opposite reason?
I have a set of LEDs by the exit door. If the alarm is armed, they will be on and a certain color. If the alarm is off, they will either be off or incorporated into the rest of the lighting schema of the house.
I put this INSIDE because it never fails, somebody will go out the door with the alarm armed. The panel is on another floor, so the exiting person doesn't hear the delayed entry a d then 30 seconds later the alarm goes off and everybody's having a bad morning.
It works for sure. There's been times where I turned the automation off and forgot about it touched the doorknob and said "wait a set, why are the lights red? The alarm should be off". I have an echo show that I can validate/change the alarm status if need be.
LEDs are bright, there's no doubt about that. All mine face indirectly. So they are behind or under something and then its only the reflected light thats visible and is much more pleasing to the eye. LEDs will reflect off any color wall or floor differently.
Thanks for the reply. I have considered the reflected light off the bulb I already have working. I just need to find the right place for it. Maybe I am making this more complicated then I need to. It has been a good project to experiment with Webcore. I finally installed it and it is working great.
Instead of a light bulb, what about some Inovelli Red switches? I do the same thing for my alarm status. Red for armed, green for disarmed, yellow for arming, purple for water leak. I have 7 or 8 of them around the house near doors and such.
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Thanks for that suggestion. That might work for me as well and in addition it gives me another Zwave wall switch. The Inovelli site was "Out Of Stock" but Amazon has them.
If you're using fully kiosk, you can use a motion sensor outside to wake up your tablet
Thanks. Have Fully available on the tablet but have been using WallPanel for its comparative simplicity. Already use the camera to wake on motion inside now. Could use my Ring Doorbell as a trigger. Will be interesting to see if I can do this with WallPanel.
Bought a Inovelli switch through Amazon. It is a Red Series LZW31-SN Dimming Switch. I have it sent up in a bench test with L1 and Neutral and Ground but no load and, of course, no traveler. I successfully paired the switch to my HE hub and can see it in devices. From there I can turn it on and off and the default Blue LED lights when it is on. Can't really test the dimming effect until I add a load but for now I am just trying to play with the preferences to change the switch LED colors and intensity and I am not have any luck controlling any of that. The switch installed with the TYPE as "Inovelli Zwave Smart Scene Dimmer S2". I don't see a driver that looks more current. Is that the right one or should I change it to something else? Any other suggestions for next steps?
I use the driver provided by inovelli on their website. It creates a child device for the led bar that you can then change like an rgb bulb.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/InovelliUSA/Hubitat/master/Drivers/inovelli-dimmer-red-series-lzw31-sn.src/inovelli-dimmer-red-series-lzw31-sn.groovy
I use RM to set the colors based on my HSM status which is tied to my alarm via an envisalink module.
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Yup, looks like the driver is probably my issue since I did not follow that step. I need to start over with that installed. Thanks.
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You can just install the driver and change to it on the device. It'll add the child device when you hit save.
I successfully downloaded the driver and it appears in the App Driver list but it does not appear in the TYPE list for the Device so I am not sure how to change the driver for the switch. I must be missing a step.
Yea it puts all user added drivers at the bottom.
Only the second time I have done that so forgot to look down there. I seem to have the options I was looking for now so just a matter of trial and error to get what I want. Thanks for the assist.
I do have one more quick question. Does the switch have to be on for the LED to be on or can the LED be turned on/off and color controlled regardless of the switch on/off status?
Can be on or off and can be different colors based on on/off
The only wife approved method I've found for notification lights in the house are these inovelli reds. She hates RGB bulbs for anything other than 3500k white.
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What I am still struggling with is getting the switch LED to come on and change color without the switch itself being turned on. I was hoping to have the LED indicate Mode status regardless of whether the switch was on or off. So far no joy on that.
