Thursday, June 23, 2016, 06:00 PM
Libbie was out at quilting all day so I took advantage of the uninterrupted time and worked on the open and close sensors on the garage door. I hung a Hall effect sensor from the ceiling and glued a magnet to the door top for the open sensor. The close sensor is a hall effect device on the wall which detects the same door top magnet. This works well and replaces the magnets which were glued to the belt. The issue was the belt with the open detector magnet would twist over time. Libbie brought home some leftover Pizza slices from her quilting today which we had for dinner. Lunch today for me was a PBJ sandwich since Libbie was out quilting. The Smartthings hub came today. When i tried to activate it I got an error message that the hub had been previously been activated. I contacted support and had them reset the activation once i sent them a picture of the serial number and barcode on the hub bottom. I'm not too happy with the eBay vendor who sold it as new in the box. I'm not sure what to do other than give them a negative rating. Once I got it activated I hooked up the GE/Jasco outlet which also arrived from eBay. The outlet is plugged into the porch tree socket. I can now command Alexa to turn the tree on and off by voice. We did a video with me and then Libbie commanding Alexa to turn the tree on and off. I emailed a link to the video to Joe. |
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