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Today's article will provide you with step-by-step instruction to customize your Amazon Alexa Flash Briefings. Also, I will show you a Alexa routine using the "Custom" function that will allow have Alexa greet you in with a random good morning greeting and then present any number of automated flash briefings in a specific order. The briefing is played in the morning, within a predefined time frame and it starts to play following on a predetermined device trigger. In my rou

In a previous article titled, “Use Mobile Phone as Presence Sensor in NEW SmartThings App”, video link, I provided details for setting up a virtual presence device type handler or DTH which I used to create an virtual presence switch for each family member's mobile device. The Device Type Handler which I used to create my virtual presence switches or VPS, was developed by SmartThings Community contributor by the name of Austin Pritchett. In that same video I also showed how

How to play any Mp3 file on your Amazon Echo device based on motion in your home

Watch the following video to see the design changes made to my smokeless fire pit. The results caught me totally off guard!

On August 19th Samsung announced a brand-new hub architecture for its SmartThings platform called SmartThings Edge. SmartThings Edge will bring speed, security, and reliability to the SmartThings platform. SmartThings continues as one of the most popular smart home platforms with more than 62 million active users. The hub supports a number of protocols including Zigbee, Z-Wave, LAN-based integrations, and soon and it will support the new Matter connectivity standard. Moreo