I am now controlling my Wink Hub directly from Homeseer utilizing an API I created
I have spent the better part of a week (unemployed at the moment and needed a challenge) hacking my Wink Hub and integrating it directly into my Homeseer system. I can now directly, and most importantly, locally control lights from Homeseer via the Wink Hub.
Local control without requiring cloud functionality was VERY important to me for a couple of reasons:
I am not totally independent from the cloud, as I have not yet built device additions functionality, control of devices other than lights, etc into my API.
I did accomplish fast response speeds. It takes less than a second for lights to switch on/off and for dimming commands to work, and it all happens over WIFI.
Missing from my project (for my purposes, that is):
What I have done so far is very crude. It requires hacking the hub (rooting it) and firmware v2.49 (just released). However, WINK (Quirky) is slated to release the API to the general public. Once they have done that, I will re-visit this project and determine if this project is worth pursuing. If I determine that this project is worth pursuing, I MAY write a HS plugin. It would be written for HS2 first, then later for HS3.
Best,
Frank
I have spent the better part of a week (unemployed at the moment and needed a challenge) hacking my Wink Hub and integrating it directly into my Homeseer system. I can now directly, and most importantly, locally control lights from Homeseer via the Wink Hub.
Local control without requiring cloud functionality was VERY important to me for a couple of reasons:
- Response speed
- Hiding from the NSA (kidding, but I don't want my data in the cloud for various reasons, not the least of which is security)
I am not totally independent from the cloud, as I have not yet built device additions functionality, control of devices other than lights, etc into my API.
I did accomplish fast response speeds. It takes less than a second for lights to switch on/off and for dimming commands to work, and it all happens over WIFI.
Missing from my project (for my purposes, that is):
- Status updates (light on/off and dim level) - this is somewhat functional, so long as all control happens via Homeseer / HSTouch; if I use the Wink App / cloud functionality, device status will be out of sync
- Addition, editing of lights
- ?
What I have done so far is very crude. It requires hacking the hub (rooting it) and firmware v2.49 (just released). However, WINK (Quirky) is slated to release the API to the general public. Once they have done that, I will re-visit this project and determine if this project is worth pursuing. If I determine that this project is worth pursuing, I MAY write a HS plugin. It would be written for HS2 first, then later for HS3.
Best,
Frank
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