re: Official WINK HUB Home Automation thread

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I was going to start a thread about two new items I've added to my list, but I'll piggyback here. I just got my garage doors hooked up and controlled through MyQ. I've also got the Ring Video Doorbell 2 unpackaged and ready for install. For the Ring, any advice on drilling into brick? Also, any last minute considerations before I install it?

As for the garage, what automation ideas do you guys suggest? I've got a Wink Hub 2, along with a variety of lights, plugs and motion sensors.

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SCREW MYQ. I am done with them after they fricked around with their API *AGAIN* and messed stuff up for all smart hubs, want to charge a monthly fee to use IFTTT and the final nail in the coffin is they refuse to support marantec openers which i bought for both of my garage doors and is a very high-quality product with tons of features that don't come with chamberlain.

CAD is getting IRIS/Linear units which integrate much better (you're tapping into the wiring of the opener) and i'd rather zwave anyway as I'm getting tired of API-based products that need the cloud, traditional WiFi and constant care and feeding.

anyone want to buy a perfectly good myQ unit and a chamberlain whisper opener (with myq built-in) someone whose name starts with an 'm' sold me?

for other garage automation, i just have a dot and a smart switch for the lights at the moment. this is probably where my next sonos speaker will end up.

aside from making my garage doors more usable and robust, does everyone know that Alexa will unlock your schlage locks now??

if you remember, this feature was disabled a year or so ago after fears someone could yell 'unlock door' from outside. the new improved alexa skills requires you to speak one of the codes you've set for your schlage lock and if you say the wrong code 3x in a row alexa disables voice-control entirely.

finally, if you do have a wink2, sonos and schlage locks you can have it announce to everyone in the house who is coming in the door. you'll need to pre-record what you want it to say and you'll have to have set individual pass-codes for various people but i can tell you this is fun!

you just need to setup a robot in wink that reacts with someone entering a particular code with a sonos speaker (or all of them!) playing whatever you want as the greeting.