Migrated my Airbnb to Hubitat

[klinquist]

I migrated my main house a year or so ago... and now with SmartThings deprecating the groovy IDE, the time has come - and I've spent the last 24 hours ago re-pairing 75 devices to Hubitat. I wrote my own 'Rental Lock Automator' (auto code lock from airbnb calendar) that interfaces with the Maker API on Hubitat.

I used WebCore for all of my airbnb automations, so I just installed it on the Hubitat and moved everything over. Generally speaking, it was all easy.

Just wanted to say thank you to the Hubitat and WebCoRE developers.

Edit: Oh! And ActionTiles! It's how I interact with Hubitat :).

I'll be updating this page in the upcoming week to reflect that I'm now using Hubitat :).

[user2922]

Hi @klinquist, you inspired me to use Hubitat to automate thermostat functions for checkin/checkout. Can you expand on what integration/open source code you are running on the Pi to grab the information from Airbnb cal?

[aaiyar]

@user2922

Can you expand on what integration/open source code you are running on the Pi to grab the information from Airbnb cal?

Posted earlier by @klinquist

[PROJECT] Very basic external/raspberry pi RBoy's Rental Lock Automator replacement

Wish I had the time to do this in Groovy / natively... But for now- I'll run this on a raspberry pi and have it interact with Hubitat via the Maker API. Sets lock codes to the last 4 digits of a guest phone number and also changes the mode at your defined check in time. Deletes the code and changes the mode at your defined check out time. Requires nodejs and ideally something like pm2 to keep it running full time.

[klinquist]

What Ashok said :). Airbnb has an iCal link on the host’s page that contains reservation info.

[mmills]

Hi @klinquist , I was originally on Wink and happy for four years, and then things went south with Wink. I moved over to SmartThings and things were generally fine there as well.

I was using the Airbnb integration while with SmartThings, and it immensely simplified the management of door codes.

I like the ease of SmartThings, and have not felt like I had the time to deal with Home Assistant or Hubitat, as I heard there was a steep learning curve to both.

Between having Apple products in my home and hearing that Hubitat has a native HomeKit integration, I decided to get a Hubitat hub and play a bit.

I read about your Airbnb integration with a Pi. I’ve not done anything with a Pi in the past but saw that you said if you had more time you’d just write the code and do it properly in Groovy.

I assume if this project/process were written in Groovy, then it would run on the Hubitat Hub as an App or something along those lines?

Could it be be possible to re-write or edit the code used for this process that was created for SmartThings?

[klinquist]

@mmills

I assume if this project/process were written in Groovy, then it would run on the Hubitat Hub as an App or something along those lines?

Correct.

@mmills

Could it be be possible to re-write or edit the code used for this process that was created for SmartThings?

RBoy's Rental Lock Automator is commercial/not open source, it would have to be re-written from scratch.

I already had a pi running at my airbnb, and my integration seems to be working well, so the justification & motivation to re-write it in groovy is small :).

[mmills]

Thanks for confirming @klinquist!