FREE: minicom software if on linux or mac OS, putty software if you are on windows 10. $1-5: A set of header wires to connect the serial adapter board to the UART port of the wink hubĥ. $5: A cable to connect the TTL to USB adapter board to your PC. You can also get them on amazon for around $15 but arrive faster.ģ. $5-15: A TTL to USB serial adapter for your PC. You will need the following items to complete this project:Ģ. I access the device over serial port when I need to which is almost never once the devices I wanted to control are setup it's hands off. SSH can be configured but I wasn't personally able to get SSH enabled. Once you have root you will change the root password and reconfigure it so that you can get root again without having to open the device. Basic soldering skills are probably required although it is possible to do it without soldering if your careful and lucky and get a good connection to the board without soldering a header on to the UART port. This requires physically opening the device and doing some hardware modifications. In my case I already had 3 Lutron Caseta dimmers paired to the hub and could just use them once I had the hub working with MQTT. If your hub already had some of your devices paired to it internally then moving them over to homeseer is easier than if there are no devices in the hubs database. The wink hub will essentially become a radio transmitter capable of making use of its Zwave, Zigbee, Lutron, and Kidde radios on board. I take no responsibility if you brick your hub, break something beyond repair, burn yourself, or otherwise have a bad time with this project.īy hacking your wink hub you will gain access to the device directly at its operating system level and be able to take control of the 4 built in radios in it and use them with homeseer to control devices. Knowledge of serial port use and putty terminal windows, command line editing, and homeseer plugin configuration as well. Some hardware/software technical skill is required as well as basic soldering skills and basic command prompt skills. If you have a Wink hub V1 and are looking to make use of it with Homeseer then this guide is for you. The notes below and subsequent posts are part of the design, build, debug, etc process as I was finishing up this project. EDIT: The top of this post was written after finishing this project to serve as a guide for anyone googling 'use wink hub with homeseer'.
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