Can I get a sesame trigger for my smartwatch?

[baqu82]

Hi,

I'm an avid user of the Sesame lock with my ipad as a wifi sharing dongle so I can access it wherever. I have noticed though as I do own a smartwatch that it would be alot easier to trigger ifttt or sesame straight through my watch instead of pulling my phone out of my pocket or bag..

Do you guys have any solution on the works for any of the current smartwatches? I know ifttt is possible now with a third party app but I am not sure I trust the maker of the software.

Would love a button on my watch either with ifttt trigger or bluetooth trigger...

Cheers
Riku

[cim]

Thanks for your feedback! We've planned from the beginning to offer smart watch control of Sesame, but given our limited resources, we haven't yet started development on smart watch support. We definitely have plans to implement it in the future! In the meantime, your best options are to use IFTTT or our API (if you're on iOS, check out QSesame). Thanks again for reaching out to us, we know there's a lot of interest in smart watch control and will post an update when the feature is available. - CANDY HOUSE

[drjitesh]

what kind of wizardry did you use to use your ipad as a wifi sharing dongle? i wonder...

[baqu82]

I think there are instructions on this somewhere on the forums. You need a separate demo app which you apply for and have to have the screen on at all times for it to work.. so basically my ipad1 is attached to a charger at all times. It was unused at this time so I put the old gal to work that way my sesame is connected to the internet without a separate wifi dongle.

[steveisles]

Look on this site for joining the iOS beta program. There is an app called Virtual Station only available via invitation in the beta: you install Apple's TestFlight app, and in it you download Virtual Station on a spare iOS device. Note, from experience: iOS 11 is very unstable with the Virtual Station, so I recommend a device that is not running iOS 11: I got an old iPod Touch 5th Generation and used it.

Note, that is half the battle to getting SmartWatch success: you then need a Raspberry Pi or something to run homebridge, which allows you to run QSesame (see above in this thread) — and that allows you to use Siri and Apple's Home app to control the lock. That (Apple's Home app + Siri), by the way works on an Apple Watch, and thus you can use your watch to enter and leave the house.

So if you have all that working, I would also recommend using a Mac + Apple Configurator (on the Mac App Store) to put the spare iOS device in Single App Mode and lock down the screen etc: this way the device will only run Virtual Station, prevent you from switching to another app, and if it crashes it will restart it.

I have that exact set up, and the Virtual Station stays up pretty much permanently (and the Raspberry Pi is similarly stable) and thus I can reliably use my watch to unlock and lock the house.

But, as you can see: not for the faint of heart!

[petermqi]

1. I have IFTTT installed on my android phone. Now I can use Google Assist and Alexa to open and close my door.

I have the "press button to open my door" enabled on my phone as well. But how to make the button show on my android phone? please help.

1. I have a Android Smartwatch, LG Watch Sport.

I get IFTTT installed on my watch. But only thing I got is the "push button to unlock my door". It does not have any of those voice command option with IFTTT on my watch. How can I make those voice option available on the IFTTT on my watch? Please help.

Thanks,

[cim]

You can check out this post on how to add an applet as a widget to your home screen! It covers iOS first so scroll down for Android.

It's possible the applets may not be supported on your smartwatch, or you may need additional apps on your smartwatch for them to work. We recommend that you reach out to IFTTT support for assistance on this matter! - CANDY HOUSE

[petermqi]

Thanks for your reply. I then realized IFTTT is not a kind of Candy. But your help is very appreciated. I was able to make what I need