AugustLock - Smartthings

[Vicbanyan]

Installed AugustLock Conttroller in Smartthings. All I get is "Lock is waiting." any thoughts?

[curzondax79]

I just followed the instructions and after some trial and error, I did get it to work. I was stuck in the exact same spot as you. What ultimately got it to work for me was manually copying and pasting the correct offline key in my config.json file. When I typed it in manually, I must have made a mistake that I did not notice.

[Vicbanyan]

Thank you very much for your reply, will try same approach

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[curzondax79]

There was also some bluestone driver configuration that I had to do. I'll be happy to help you out as best as I can

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On Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 11:50 Vicbanyan ***@***.***> wrote: Thank you very much for your reply, will try same approach On Tue, Mar 20, 2018, 11:30 PM curzondax79 ***@***.***> wrote: > I just followed the instructions and after some trial and error, I did get > it to work. I was stuck in the exact same spot as you. What ultimately got > it to work for me was manually copying and pasting the correct offline key > in my config.json file. When I typed it in manually, I must have made a > mistake that I did not notice. > > — > You are receiving this because you authored the thread. > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > < #1 (comment) >, > or mute the thread > < https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AZwpyM-z2wj26AixQuDt4j8xBTtRiI8Wks5tgclGgaJpZM4SvOg3 > > . > — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/Ajw_tYw3i_W4gyUqeUUvkE4HLyc5bIvaks5tgoTNgaJpZM4SvOg3> .

[Vicbanyan]

I have no luck, copy and pasted again. One question please, I have Comcast and for some strange reason I am unable to open ports, any port (have spent 48 days it seems on the phone with them with no results), does not being able to open ports, for example 80, effect the results.

[robson83]

@Vicbanyan can you please share details like:

• Operating system
• What's your node version
• Your lock model

From there, I'll try to guide you. Comcast doesn't influence, as your computer will listen to the local network, not to the internet.

Usually, the problem is related to getting the correct offline key. How did you get it?

Thanks

[curzondax79]

Not really. When you are at home, you don't need to have any ports open because you're on your local sidebar of your network ( so when you speak of opening ports, you are opening a port from your inside home world to the outside world of the internet) are you able to see any Json outputs when you hit refresh in the SmartThings app?

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On Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 13:31 Vicbanyan ***@***.***> wrote: I have no luck, copy and pasted again. One question please, I have Comcast and for some strange reason I am unable to open ports, any port (have spent 48 days it seems on the phone with them with no results), does not being able to open ports, for example 80, effect the results. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/Ajw_tbQvtgLGOZG4EOFZb6dmQM1C6ntmks5tgpyKgaJpZM4SvOg3> .

[Vicbanyan]

Gentlemen you have caught me and I apologize. To say I am a beginner in doing this kind of stuff would be a gross exaggeration. I got into SmartThings after I retired and explore what I can do. i have downloaded several device drivers from GitHub (ie Nest) and to my great surprise they worked perfectly. Your questions regarding nodes, etc are beyond my feeble mind. I sincerely do not want you to spend much time and effort with me because it would show up pretty quickly how dumb I am about this things. Thanks again for your help and on to finding out what a node is. Vic

[curzondax79]

No problem, I'll help you walk through it. I too integrated my nest thermostat into smartthings (though it is not fully supported). That project took me 15 minutes, getting my August Lock to work with smartthings took me several months. Since I just got it working this week, the steps needed are fresh in my head. I had to utilize several instructions outside of the readme provided to make it work, so hopefully I can help you make it work too. No worries about the time aspect, you've caught me in a period where I have some time. I'm a new physician, but I just passed my last board exam for awhile! We progress from process. After you issue the node server.js command to start your augustctl server on your raspberry pi, you should see something pop up on your monitor when you hit refresh in the smartthings app. It should say something like getting status (I can take a picture of it later if you need me to as to what it says on my screen. That is the json output that I'm speaking of.

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On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 2:03 PM, Vicbanyan ***@***.***> wrote: Gentlemen you have caught me and I apologize. To say I am a beginner in doing this kind of stuff would be a gross exaggeration. I got into SmartThings after I retired and explore what I can do. i have downloaded several device drivers from GitHub (ie Nest) and to my great surprise they worked perfectly. Your questions regarding nodes, etc are beyond my feeble mind. I sincerely do not want you to spend much time and effort with me because it would show up pretty quickly how dumb I am about this things. Thanks again for your help and on to finding out what a node is. Vic — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/Ajw_tQGPoWLytL2z7gMcXRnCyKMUbIskks5tgqQcgaJpZM4SvOg3> .

[Vicbanyan]

Congratulations and best of luck in the future. Now please do not forget my preamble from my last message but I am doing this on a Mac (os 10.13.3) not a raspberry pi. Told you I was a beginner.

[Vicbanyan]

I did just start getting into the pi and if you think that is easier I can try.

[curzondax79]

Ah, gotcha. Then I'll try my best best to help. The steps and process should be similar, but there will be some differences. One nice thing is you should have less problems with getting your Bluetooth Hardware to work. Are you able to start the server JS file and see any output in your terminal window. I believe it needs to be ran from a terminal window, even if you are running it on a map. On Mar 21, 2018 14:25, "Vicbanyan" <notifications@github.com> wrote: Congratulations and best of luck in the future. Now please do not forget my preamble from my last message but I am doing this on a Mac (os 10.13.3) not a raspberry pi. Told you I was a beginner. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/Ajw_tVcLYqcuUWh8bHixmM9q1yR5mfvDks5tgqkvgaJpZM4SvOg3> .

[Vicbanyan]

I'm going to try to do it on the pi. May take a little while to get it set up, I can not thank you enough for your help and patients. Will be back to you soon and I clearly understand if you decide to raise the white flag and surrender. Thanks again, Vic

[Vicbanyan]

great life's lesson:
We progress from process.

[curzondax79]

The instructions that are set up are fairly Raspberry Pi specific, so it may be easier to set up from that one several any instructions I had to go out on the internet and find more detailed instructions. The first thing up you might have is when you get ready to install node

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On Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 14:36 Vicbanyan ***@***.***> wrote: I'm going to try to do it on the pi. May take a little while to get it set up, I can not thank you enough for your help and patients. Will be back to you soon and I clearly understand if you decide to raise the white flag and surrender. Thanks again, Vic — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/Ajw_tTaNvBl-zoll1P4afooXoORh3Bmoks5tgqu_gaJpZM4SvOg3> .

[curzondax79]

Will do, please feel free to give me a shout out if you need anything! Here's a summary of the things that I had the most difficulty with and how I solved it.

In installing node, I found the nvm install wasn't very necessary, nor was installing the version he recommended. In fact, I ended up installing node.js, which worked well for me. Follow the instructions on the following page. http://weworkweplay.com/play/raspberry-pi-nodejs/

When you install node.js like this and you try to run the server.js file, you'll get several error messages (or at least I did). This was due to a few components not being installed. I looked on the internet for installation instructions for each. In the end, all that was needed to install the missing components was apt-get install "name of missing component" I think there were about three or four things I needed to install. One had to do with my bluetooth setup, and I can't remember what the other ones dealt with. If you knock these out one by one, you should finally be able to run the server.js file

After I did this, this is the part I got to regarding my first reply. I did not have my config.json file right insomuch as I must have had a typo that I didn't see. I took the time to copy and paste the output from my android device to my config.json using putty from my windows pc to my raspberry pi. (Putty is the program I use to SSH from my computer to my raspberry pi to get a terminal on my windows pc so I don't have to be at a pi connected to my machine) Once the pi was set up correctly, I started seeing actual output on my screen from my json file and the smartthings app was working correctly with the lock.

If you launch this from a terminal window, it has to stay open for it to continue to listen to requests from smartthings. I'm going to get around this by eventually putting a startup command in at boot to launch this from the pi itself without a terminal window being opened, but I haven't done this yet.

I hope these instructions help you get through some of the hangups I had in installing this project. Also, thank you for liking my "We progress from process." quote. It's a Dr. Dan original!

Dr. Dan A.