re: Official WINK HUB Home Automation thread

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Yellow arrow: 'bridge' zwave screw-in module for post light

Red arrow: intermatic zwave device will be behind the stone wall where my pump breaker lives.



I know the intermatic works (did you watch the wink/intermatic youtube vid I posted?)

i'm almost positive that zwave screw-in will also work. zwave does great 'on/off' integration with WINK.

just always select the 'zwave switch' option when pairing.

Ah yeah, busy day. so, can this control my pump and my polaris pump seperately? Too lazy to watch or read

Eta: im guessing it can only turn on/off both at the same time. That kind of stinks.


Your order shipped today as well


... And leaksmart pairing just says comimg soon

I guess its one of those things they need to turn on. Not like i was going to install it this week anyways.

Wtf

When wink.com goes down you'll be glad you can still use it.

Are you saying the robots won't live locally as well? That would suck

Most of my lights are on smart switches. The one place that i can see the use for controlling lights on my phone is in the living room where i will need to replace 8 lights with dimmable smart bulbs since they are currently in very high fans with only one switch to operate the lights and fan. I'm not in a rush to do that.

also i'm learning you need to strategize your technologies.

zwave is great because those devices all 'MESH' to pass the signal along from one device to the next but GE bulbs are zigbee..and a special type of zigbee that do their own MESH..but only bridge across to other GE bulbs.

i now realize i put the lutron switch in the wrong place because i cant reach the cree bulb in backyard so i am taking the cree bulb back in favor of 2 GE bulbs that can bridge across.

when the C by GE bluetooth bulbs come in thats going to present yet a whole new set of challenges I bet.

i will write up more on strategizing placement of the various 'smart' wifi radios if you have a large area you want to cover.

why? is it a storage issue? or is it because the robot "processing" takes place in the cloud and the wink hub lacks the processing power to handle them?

if its the former, surely the wink could support accessing a local NAS or something with additional storage space..also a good idea to back up all your configuation.

if the latter, well, frick.

mctiger stash & intermatic switch arrived today!

...i think i have a problem starting with the fact that yes, i have 2 wink hubs. i orignally had 6 after christmas last year but gave 4 away as gifts



Eta added one gocontrol sensor. Worked like a charm!

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had to waste 3 GE link bulbs to handle turning them off without turning the ceiling fan off.

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Can you elaborate on how you wasted them? You mean you got smart bulbs just to be able to turn the lights on/off without ever turning the fan off?

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i'm going to try & separate the fan & lights onto 2 switches but not sure i can pull it off.

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I need to do exactly that. I was looking into insteon switches and fan controllers, but z-wave sounds like the way to go if such a thing exists for fan control.