re: Official WINK HUB Home Automation thread

why?

Eta I got your email MC... Pondering

If you followed mctiger on here you would see he does this all the time.... not just with wink. He loves to find deals/closeouts at home depot for himself and also to resell.

I've personally bought a few things he picked up at home depot from him and he made a little money off them sure but I bought them well under msrp and was happy he found them when I wasn't able to.

There is a service in Nashville that drives to Atlanta IKEA to pick up and deliver stuff for people who can't/don't want to make that drive. You pay double the price of the item oftentimes but for a lot of people it's worth it because there is a effort involved in making that trek.

MC is like a home depot closeout dealer.

Thought I'd post my latest HA install. If anyone wants to automate their garage for ~$30, I installed a GoControl Z-Wave Isolated Contact Fixture Module in about 20 minutes. Works like a charm. Full integration with SmartThings (Wink will work seamlessly as well). Also integrated with alexa.

Cut the female end off of an old computer power cable. Wired the ground, neutral and line to the contact fixture module, then the two remote wires tie into the terminals that your garage door button connects to.

It's a fixture module that can be used for anything that you want to add z wave to: lights, switches, appliances. The easiest way for me to get power is from the 120v socket that the garage door opener is plugged into. So I just soldered it to a wall plug. My use case is probably the minority for these things.

so i just ordered one of these suckers:

aeotech micro dimmer doodad



i've got 2 gang box by my pool with 4 half-height toggles. (2 of these):



- 1 the outdoor lights on the wall around the pool
- 1 the 600w pool light
- 1 the post light
- 1 not used

so i put a GE link bulb in the post light (since the intermatic is working like a charm..dont need to put an expensive zwave bulb in there for now)

however i WANT to dim the 3 lights (each have 3 candelabra type bulbs) around the pool because they are bright as hell and i hate getting ready to go to bed only to realize those frickers are still on..its a long trek down to the pool.

so this little do-ma-hickey should do the trick..function as on/off and a dimmer.

the bad news is it won't work for the pool light itself but i try to avoid using that because..its 600watts..

the other option is a little 2-relay thingie that would handle both light switches but it doesnt dim..and for me dimming is more important than controlling that stupid underwater pool light which will probably burn out at anytime anyway.

Now, you've made want to put my pool light on a switch

Haha, that was supposed to be pool. Would beat walking over to turn it on when I want to use it.

Does anyone have experience with smart outlets? I'd like to install one in the kids room so it will turn her electronics (tv, dtv box, etc) off when she leaves the house since she finds it impossible to do so. (I played around with the tv settings and could not find any type of power save option).


Everything is plugged into a surge which is in turn plugged into the outlet. Would it still turn everything off since the surge is plugged into the outlet or does the device you want to manipulate have to be plugged directly into the outlet?

Thanks.

Honestly I've been trying to only use things that I can control natively with SmartThings. But it sounds like you're saying as long as the surge is plugged into the zwave outlet (and not the standard one) then everything that is plugged into that surge will turn off when she leaves the house?

I'm sure your outlet would work with ST, just not the energy reading function.

Plug the DTV box into a non smart outlet