Today I’ll show you how to have your Echo voice assistant announce the detection of smoke when your First Alert Z-Wave Smoke and Carbon...

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Automate Home Surveillance with the New Smartthings App

This easy SmartThings automation will help you automate Alexa Guard so that your Echo devices are automatically placed in guard mode when...

In my previous article "Use Mobile Phone as Presence Sensor in NEW SmartThings App" I explained how to setup your family’s mobile phones...

Learn how to create a virtual presence device handler that can be used to create an virtual presence switch for each family member's mobile

Learn how to set up a simple virtual switch that can be used in your SmartThings automations to trigger Amazon Echo announcements

Smart Home Automation

Create free custom dashboards and write awesome rules to monitor and and control SmartThings devices!

Check out the surprising results of my testing of the Alexa Guard feature