Recent content by jkmonroe

the Dot has an audio output.  i wonder if there is a way to get a relay that would trigger when it detects voltage and turn that into your paging trigger.     at least it makes sense in my tiny brain.

if you do end up going all-in with SmartThings, be sure to check out CoRE.

  it does.  in the website, you need to grab the z-wave node number of the VRC0P.

  Yes.   With SmartThings as the primary controller, you need to include the VRC0P, and then need to follow the directions Ben typed up.  The gist is this - you add a special device-type in SmartThings and need to change all of your z-wave devices to that device-type.  Once you've done that, you...

  i lol'd.   :rofl:

    That's analogous to what they're doing, but Zigbee has nothing to do with your data network.   It's like if I brought my Hue hub to your place, and 'stole' your lights over to my bridge.  It has nothing to do with your network.

Yeah; and this is why you should buy from established companies.  The exploit has already been patched by Philips.   But we all should know that most RF comms will be vulnerable to some form of attack (BT, ZWave, Zigbee, well - just about any RF in general).

  Not the hub, the bulb itself; they were attacking the bulb.  They actually brought the bulbs into their own dedicated network.

the Hue hack via drone is a zigbee stack hack, not an IP hack.  so yeah, they can control your bulbs, but wont have access to protected data.   for the most part, as long as you dont open any ports to the outside, and have a level of comfort with your internal devices not 'phoning home' (not...

i thought it was like a pseudo-universal driver.  of course, there isn't a lot of information out there, but the general tagline is something like "to allow communications and control with your control4 system."   the acronym is obviously a direct rip-off of SSDP, which is just a discovery...

  but this does exist with Control4 SDDP.  great for them, but not so great for the rest of us.   they recognized a need and went out and sold a solution.  almost every device i have in my home would work with control4 based on their supported manufacturers list.   but i just absolutely refuse...

  hahah.  ahahahah.  hahahaha.   the problem is you had to engineer around their quirks, which just goes to show you how broken it really is.  for example, if i want to add a Cooper keypad to my Leviton system, it simply cannot be done without changing the primary controller from RFIT over to...

dean is right, but the answer is smartphones.   :D

  When you dig down into it, the *protocols* are broken, not necessarily their implementation (although theres a lot of that, too).  For the life of me, I can't seem to figure out why.   Zigbee is probably the best at that, with retries and acks even on multicast signals, and I understand why...

do you have a dynamic IP and are you using a dynamic dns service? they usually offer little tray apps that will auto update your IP. what router? most mid range have dyn hosts built in to do the same thing. if youre using a regular domain (yourname.com), move it into google domains and you...