SmartThings You’ve Got Mail through Sonos Speakers when Mailbox Opened
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SmartThings You’ve Got Mail through Sonos Speakers when Mailbox Opened

So I had a few Samsung SmartThings Multipurpose Sensor’s laying around and decided to put one of them to good use.

I wanted my mailbox when it was opened to alert me that the mail was delivered and what better way then to use the AOL Sound “You’ve Got Mail”.  At first I did this just screwing around but then I realized how useful this actually became.  I never have to keep checking the mailbox waiting for mail to arrive.  I can continue on with my day waiting for the “You’ve Got Mail” sound to carry out through about 6 Sonos speakers.

SmartThings Create a Virtual Timer for a Light
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SmartThings Create a Virtual Timer for a Light

So I have been using Tasker a lot however I’m on the T-Mobile jump program and I switch from phone to phone quite a bit.  I was going to reinsert all of my Tasker profiles however I decided to see if SmartThings had a better method yet of presence sensing.  So I decided to relink my Android device as my presence sensor.  I’ve been testing this for about a week now and it seems to be more accurate then all of my Tasker/AutoLocation profiles.