1/18/2024 0 Comments Simplisafe ifttt![]() That said I don’t believe that you need to be as constrained by size or ease of installation. The Installation guide states that this is an “advanced DIY” project. Utilizing an external transformer for power with a larger internal backup battery. It could be improved by adding the following features:Īn option to power motion and glass break sensors.Īdding power (or at least a contact that could be used with external power) to drive existing external sireins. It is more of a wired contact sensor adapter kit. It is to expensive and doesn’t have enough features to be considered a true retrofit kit. Currently it is just an adapter for wired contact sensors. I think that you could improve the Retrofit Alarm Kit. Hopefully since they are Amazon owned now, they will have some decent engineers around to tweak the system, but that may be a pipedream… Overall, I am very impressed with the system and its compatibility but there are some things that need ironing. Whether this is the battery or shotty programming, IDK… I have read many negative reviews that spoke of battery usage. I have heard complaints on the batteries that are provided, I am new to the system so I can not attest to their longevity.īeing a hardware engineer, I wonder why they need such big batteries…the new Z-Waze chips are designed to draw virtually nothing until there is an event in which they wake and send the command and then they go back to sleep. Every time you open a door the sensor wakes up and sends its status back to the base station. I took the SimpliSafe back and purchased a Ring.īack to the sensors, the main reason they are so big is that they use a much larger battery than other systems…potentially meaning few battery replacements through the years on “heavy use” doors. It’s possible SS will one day open up their platform with IFTTT capabilities or directly with ST and make my solution obsolete, but for now, it works great.Īnd BTW, I’m using the latest SS hardware, and ST Hub 2nd Gen.Agreed! They are downright absurd! SimpliSafe’s sensors are tiny and I actually purchased a system over the Ring for the size of the sensors and realized that you don’t receive any remote capabilities if you don’t pay them $25/month. This shouldn’t be so hard, but it was nagging me so much I ended up building this solution over time and through trial and errors. I can now run scripts like automatically setting SS to Home after a certain time, or when I lock my door at night, etc. It’s a bit of a pandora’s box, but it all works. Finally, I use FastMail’s ability to execute scripts when receiving status emails from SS to handle the SS alert logic and call IFTTT when SS state changes. ![]() Next, I used a combination of Virtual Devices, Routines, SmartApps, IFTTT and a WebCore piston to manage all that. In a nutshell, I hacked a SS keyfob remote, and used MIMO (2+ and Lite), by soldering wires onto the remote circuit board to simulate physical pushes on the Off/Home/Away buttons, this works great but again, not for the beginners. ![]() If there’s interest in how I achieved this, I’ll see to spend a bit of time and document, however, this integration is both hardware and software and not for the faint of heart. IFTTT can control SimpliSafe as a result, since it’s just a virtual device in ST now.SimpliSafe state (Off/Home/Away) can be controlled from ST, each state is mapped to a virtual momentary button and works as expected. ![]() When SHM state changes, SimpliSafe gets armed/disarmed to match SHM state.When SimpliSafe state changes (home/away/off), STM and Mode change to match, any ST actions can be triggered as a result.
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