If you are into home automation but having different brands or purchasing new toys. They most likely are not compatible with each other. Either they wont be supporting at all or you have to wait for them to work on the open api, ifttt, etc.
Here comes the good news, since all the smart products now will have an app that can send you either notification or email. All you need to do is to setup growl on your smart phone (
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AqbYGC5z-4I) and send all the notification to your pc (
http://www.growlforwindows.com/gfw/). With Growl + EventGhost + VC, most of the incompatible products can finally talk to each other now.
Here's an example,
Ring is a smart doorbell, okidokeys is smart lock, eyezon alarm doesnt have an app but can be alerted by email. I could then trigger any action like set light scene, turn on/off music, so on and so forth.
I hope it helps someone that's still waiting for ifttt or their product to get this supported.
Enjoy and have fun!
