smartthings (5)

Using Twilio from SmartThings

In our prior post, we covered using Twilio for our vacation rental. It gives us a great combination of low cost and programmability. In this post, we're going to extend the use of our Twilio number to automatically text guests when they first unlock the door.

By Jonathan Poland

Make your older house smart with konnected.io

It's getting cold again and I was checking and repairing my weather stripping around my house. Whilst taking a close look at the doors, I noticed most of them had what looked like recessed sensors in them. Into the rabbit hole I went... I had…

By Jonathan Poland

Automating your VRBO rental with Zapier and Smart Things: Part 3

In our previous posts we've covered our motivations and a majority of the Zapier zaps needed to do our automation. In this post, we setup our custom Smart Things smart app manage our lock codes and our final Zap to call it. The smart things…

By Jonathan Poland

Automating your VRBO rental with Zapier and Smart Things: Part 2

In the previous post, we covered our motivations for automating, and the high-level of what we want. This post will detail how to do it. The first step is to setup the zap that will receive our forwarded reservation email. It uses the Email Parser…

By Jonathan Poland