Z-Wave Mouse Trap

I'm a HUGE fan of Jimmy Diresta (https://www.youtube.com/user/jimmydiresta), so this was my first attempt at making a similar style video of another thing I'm a big fan of... home automation. 

I've done a lot of home automation (science) projects with Arduino, and then moving to Raspberry Pi and Google Cloud Messaging. Late last year I decided to try out SmartThings, and I'm VERY happy with that decision. They have a great site for developing your own Z-Wave "device types" as well as Smart Apps. This allows you to easily transform one device into another, as well as add custom icons, text, and notifications (SMS or Android).

You can find the device type and smart app I created for this video at my GitHub here: 

Note as you can see in the video, I tried epoxy but it failed to really stick smooth plastic to plastic. :-)

Also note that the audio at the end is coming out of the phone.  You can see it vibe and then play the song.  I used tasker to play an MP3 file when the SmartThings notification came in with a given message.  You can see how fast Android push messages are!!

You can also read more about this on their community site here:

http://community.smartthings.com/t/z-wave-mouse-trap/10528 

There I give some tips on where I learned Tasker from for example.  Note this usage for this project is pretty much the simplest it gets in Tasker:

1. create a new profile of type "Event"
2. In that Event select "UI" sub category, and "Notification" sub sub category
3. There you will chose smartthings app as the owner application and then stick in the push notification textexactly as it shows up in the notification tray.
4. Then create a new task
5. in that task, add the sub category "Media" and the sub sub category "Music Play"
6. choose your mp3 and you're done!

Note you need to make sure to enable push notifications in SmartThings app and again, match the text you put in SmartThings push message to the event above in step 3

I learned tasker from these tutorials. It's updated a bit from the time of this writing, but I don't think by enough to matter. I have a long commute so it was perfect for playing with just about every possible sub category of profiles and tasks. Part of the trick to Tasker for me was, learn the basic concepts of a profile and then a task, and then just play and try every option.

As far as learning how to use device types and smart apps, I won't try to explain that here.  I would just say jump on the forums from SmartThings and start watching their great YouTube videos.  

Enjoy!!!