How to monitorf contacts ie: open or closed?

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markvodhanel posted this 10 March 2014

Could someone advise me as to the best way, in InControl to monitor the status of simple, binary contacts like would normally be used to trigger motion on a normal motion detector? I guess the device type would be a BinarySensor, but how does one tie this to InControl? I thought I might find a Zwave device like a relay, but in reverse, but no luck there. Thanks in advance for any assistance. Mark.

markvodhanel posted this 10 March 2014

I think I answered my own question, elegantly, using Wemo which is what I am using. The standard Wemo switch comes with everything required to be fired remotely by an external switch, which is what the contacts I want to monitor would be. So, I can simply connect the contacts to the remote control of the Wemo switch and let it turn Wemo on/off as required. InControl can monitor this just fine. I haven't actually proven this yet.

http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/belkin/f7c027

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