Smart Home Secuirty: Alexa Home Alarm - Setting The Alarm
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- Use Alexa to turn any Android device into a fully automated home alarm system
How to setup a Manything camera 02:12
How to control a Manything camera with Alexa using IFTTT 03:33
How to control the RM pro with HTTP 06:13
How to setup Port forwarding 08:22
How to send HTTP requests with IFTTT 11:13
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ahhhh, that's explain why there is a sudden spike in sales from Germany for my app. haha.
hiya paul finally got it done its only taken me a few hrs lol but got the port forwarded eventually. what a pain it was but with your help its all sorted. your a legend xx
well after all that I thought it was working properly but after trying it this morning it just constantly crashed and lags by about 15 seconds. I do get a notification on my phone when there's motion but when I start the trigger it doesn't turn my lights off. I'm giving up I guess it's just not going to work thanks tho Paul xx
You are the best one, so different tutorials, and with so clear explanation, thanks a lot
+Julio Netto so nice of you. Thank you
Hi Paul, another great video - well explained on all steps. Also the animations helps a lot to show which steps are required.
Good work bro!
Kalle
+Kalle Brandts thanks brother. Xxx
Hi Paul, another great video and well described as usual. One issue I noticed, the request to send the lights off command from Maker to RM Plugin is via HTTP (only option it currently supports), this means your username and password will be sent over the Internet in plain text (not encrypted) and therefore it may be possible for somebody on the Internet to capture your credentials, which is not a good thing. I think it should be pointed out in the video that this is a dangerous thing to do.
At the *very* least make sure these credentials are not used for anything else, such as email, banking, etc, or you may find your home security system was the reason your bank account got emptied out.
It would also be worth getting in touch with the developers of RM Plugin and request they add the option to use HTTPS which will ensure your credentials are sent encrypted and safely.
Alan Makin thanks Alan! I didn't realise they could be intercepted.
Unfortunately youtube doesn't let you add annotations to the video anymore if you use their new end cards system, but I will add this in the description.
Do you know how someone might be able to intercept the details? I don't doubt that it's possible, I'm just curious as to how they do it.
Thanks,
-P
The easiest place for somebody to try and intercept your credentials would be by connecting to your home network (which could be easy or difficult depending if they already have access to your router ports or wifi) and then use either a 'sniffing' tool to capture all traffic on the network (see Wireshark), or set up a 'man-in-the-middle' attack, which will intercept only traffic between your router and the RM Plugin app (see tools such as Cain and Able or Ettercap).
On a side note, if you've not changed you wireless password/access code from the one provided by Virgin it is possible to attempt what is called a 'brute-force' attack against it, ISPs tend to use a standard format for their passwords (My BT router looked like it was created with just hexadecimal numbers, 0-9 & a-f, for example), it's not difficult to set up a rule to try every combination of letters and numbers until to password is cracked, just may take a bit of time. All the tools to do this are freely available off the Internet. I recommend trying it as a future project, on an unused router that you own of course :)
It is more difficult to intercept your password from the Internet. For a man-in-the-middle the attacker would need to be connected to the same network as your ISP or IFTTT, not impossible but less likely and doubt anyone would be doing that just to get your details.
You also have to keep in mind those credentials will also pass through the equipment of all the different layers of the Internet between IFTTT and your home, for me that is between 10 and 19 devices on the Internet alone. Again the chances of somebody getting your credentials from here, realising they belong to you and gaining access to your systems is very slim, but it is still a risk.
Is the rm pro neccesary for everything else other than it to work for this?
Thanks Paul - great info as usual. This must take ages, or are you just a genius on vid making.
Peter Frost thanks mate. Yeah, some of them are a big job. It often spirals out of control because I get carried away once I have an idea in my head. I've gotten really quick if I really go at it, but this one was probably a good 12 hours work as it has quite a bit of animation. It's usually if I decide to do something I haven't done before it takes a long time as it takes a while to figure out how to make it look right, but I'm getting faster :)
Excellent tutorial as always. Keep up the good work.
Is it because I have an AppleMac that I don’t know what ‘IP Config’ means or ‘command prompt’?
hi Paul, just watch this vid, and as always, great tutorial, hope your channel grow bigger. cheers
Thank you!! Me too ;)
Thanks again for your clear tutorial. Just a quick question. Does the app (Manything) need to be running constantly and in front on the tablet? Or can it run in the background whilst the tablet is locked and screen is turned off (to save battery) and be triggered to wake the screen up on motion ?
+DoNCaLiTrI Hi mate, Manything needs to be running and in the foreground, but it dims the screen to as low as it will go to save on battery and screen life.
You could probably use tasker to launch Manything when required :)
Another option is you can follow this same guide with Ivideon in place of Manything and use any IP camera instead.
Thanks,
-P
Thanks mate, will try that!
Good on you for getting back to producing videos Paul but I've said it before and I'll say it again START CHARGING FOR THEM!
You put a lot of work into them and even if you sold each for £10 a download that's going to add up.
Drop me a message on messenger when you are ready to start selling them on a digital marketplace. ;-)
Hi Paul. Great Video, thanks a lot!
+curuptguy 😆 any time dude.
Would it be possible to do this with a push notification from a 8 camera dvr connected to the network. Found your channel after I purchased my Alexa Love your videos
Thanks for the kind words my friend!. Hmm, Take a look at Ivideon. If you can connect the cameras to Ivideon then you can use this exact same tutorial but replace the Manything part of the IFTTT Recipe with the Ivideon service. :)
Paul. Love your videos and tutorials. Would this in theory work with say an up cctv camera??
Manoj Khatri Hi, Manything currently doesn't support IP cameras but Ivideon does. You should be able to follow my guide and substitute Manything with Ivideon as they have the same functions in the IFTTT cloud.
-P
Paul Hibbert thanks
ok this is epic!
Wow that is so lit. A really cheap solution that actually works for once. Thank you man. :) I have my philips hue I see how I can set these up. And if they work. But now my echo dot and ipad work perfect with it. Cheers. Happy New year best wishes for you family and channel :)) Keep posting stuff like that. Nice :) I'm so impressed that I actually made somehting as easy to work. Without the bulbs for now but I see what I can do with that too :)
+EnglishMannInNewYork well done mate 😁 this is one of the harder ones!
Paul Hibbert happy new year again. I have the Philips Hue starter kit so it worked like a charm. Easy with just one applet connected with manything.
hello Paul, damn I though hard on that one, could get damn Manything to send notification to my old Galaxy S3 on Motion, finally found a work around using iftt is tasker , but what a day lol, I know video is one year old but is it still working, I really tryed everything to make Manithing to send notification but nothing worked.
Luv your channel btw, really the kind of fun stuff I like to do on my spare time, congrats, you got an awesome chan, btw if you need any help in youtube Ads, UA-cam Seo or Facebook Ads, hit me up, I ll answer your questions for free, you helped me a lot with your video!!!
I donated you a small amount as well Paul, thanks for the inspiration ;) keep up doing the videos, great work.
Did you see how to set up hue? :D
Cheers
+Venix hahaha. Thank you mate. That's very generous. I looked up your Hue video, production looks really good, but I can't speak German ;)
OK, if you can speak German why not producing video's in German too??? ;) I suspect the German guy is just resynchronizing your videos. They do it with every movie in Germany(terrible) in another language than german. It is something like a law to keep german actors busy.
Leo en Rien van der Hoek it was meant to say "can't". I can't speak German ;)
Venix and I are cool. We're friends on Facebook now :)
I was never really bothered, I was poking fun really.
-P
That I was trying to communicate to you, just a joke. I am happy I judged you right not making any fuzz about the "copying" for this. B.t.w. your videos are a big help to me. I am about to start things in the home with the components you are using.
+Leo en Rien van der Hoek thanks man :) glad to be of help.
Hey Paul, I am just (and still) working through your 10 things to do with Alexa... ;-) Since I was able to set up iobroker on my Raspberry Pi in the meanwhile, I would like to ask you for some tutorials making use of this (both nice and nasty) piece of software! :-D I think, there are tons of things to do with it!
+Matthias Schlosser haha. Awesome.
I'm getting a lot of requests for raspberry pi tutorials. I have a lot on my schedule at the minute so maybe in the summer!
I am looking fordward to this, my friend! :-) There is a nice German guy doing a lot of home automation (and visualization) with iobroker. Maybe the two of you can put their heads together and benefit from each other's knowledge. This would be the most amazing tag team since The Brothers of Destruction! :-D Here is his channel: ua-cam.com/channels/3PCSf8gzYLVBdqs1-SMmRA.html
Matthias Schlosser the link is broken?
It works on my computer... The name of his channel is SchimmerMediaHD - maybe you can just search for it.
Sorry if this is a dumb question but is there any way around using the rm pro?
What do you want to use instead?
So I have accomplished everything in the video except for the light turning on and off. I do not have a rm pro. Is there any other way to accomplish the light function?
hey Paul, this is a great source. I have built something similar to this in my place. just an update, I believe that service on ifttt is no longer called "maker", they have changed it to "webhooks". if anyone is looking for a "maker" service on ifttt, don't. or they removed maker and created webhooks, idk. i am using Autoremote plug-in for tasker to have tasker communicate with ifttt. and there is something that i don't really get, there is one dislike for this video. come'n, are you serious dude? do something better than this then.
Thanks for the kind words dude! I am always amazed when people dislike my videos. I am totally harmless and just trying to help people. I think people are just mental ;)
There is a much more up to date video I did here which uses a similar method, but with a lot less fiddling... ua-cam.com/video/UzPnvDyHVDs/v-deo.html
I see you have updated your RM taker plugin from 1.6.8 to 1.7.xx Did you have any issues updating as I see in the forums that some people have had issues after updating. Thanks.
My tutorials are always screen grabbed on my mobile, but it's actually my tablet that I use in real life and the tablet is still on the older version so I had no idea stuff was broken!
It seems that all my Alexa devices in the RM plugin had forgotten their commands. I just tried adding the commands back in to one of them which fixed that one. Hopefully the developer will get it fixed quickly so we don't all have to re-add all our devices!
-P
Paul Hibbert Did you have to add all the commands back one by one (I have dozens) or could you do a mass import from the e-control app? Thanks,
Finally got around to setting this up last night! Works great, thank you.
Having a real problem with the updated RM plugin losing all my devices. had to revert back to 1.6.8 to get anything working at all.
Great work as always.
I have now also set up IFTTT to change the colour of my bulbs when the international space station goes overhead! #SpaceNerd
What is the scanner used at the door and how does that work?
Benjamin Parsons you mean the nfc tag? The phone reacts to the nfc tag and sends a request via IFTTT.
If you want a full break down then watch the other parts of the tutorial and it will walk you through it :)
Yes I did and thanks very much.
Is there an IOS alternative to anyremote?
+Benjamin Parsons dunno. Sorry bud. I don't own any apple products. I would think there would be something similar. If you search the apple store for anyremote does it come back with any alternatives? A lot of programmers will tag their stuff up with the android version so when you search for it their products come up.
just an headsup, but arent you displaying your public ip at 12:22?
gijzultboeten thanks for the heads up, but no :)
I made that address up as an example.
Thanks,
-P
Hey Paul, Maker isn't listed anymore at ifttt.com
Eban Q. Hanna ifttt in their infinite wisdom have renamed it maker web hooks and coloured it green. How annoying.
It'll still be the same setup though matey :)
Thanks bud
I see Manything records to the cloud but has a monthly subscription. I have an always on synology nas so don't need that. Do you know of any similar apps that you can have Record to your own NAS?
+spudz72 yes! Look up Ivideon in place of Manything. All instructions are the same! :)
Thanks. I checked out the website and from what I can see it sounds like it should be better then Manything. Just curious why did you choose to use Manything over Ivideon?
spudz72 I wanted to create a home alarm system that lived through one tablet and the cloud. Nothing else. This is a good way of achieving that. Ultimately I'll tinker until it's something totally different for my own needs I'm sure. :)
Ah. Make sense. I actually want to use my tablet or a spare phone as well, just don't want to pay for cloud recording. It looks like from what I can see Ivideon is only for use with external cameras or ip cameras etc. So that is likely why you didn't use it? So I guess an app for what I need doesn't likely exists. I either have to pay for Manything to record to the cloud or use Ivideon with external cameras.
Hi Paul, I have a question.
Does this method works with my philips hue lamps? And how do I need to Portforward my router, because I have an accespoint setup as a second network in my house and to that network is everything setup to, but the accespoint is also connected to my main router? could you please help me?
Thank you.
+Daan Filius hi Daan, ifttt have Philips Hue built in so you wouldn't need to port forward to switch them on, you can just point ifttt straight that the Philips Hue service :) its A LOT more straight forward if you're not Tring to control the RM plugin.
Thanks,
-P
Thnx for your quick response, when my new amazon alexa dot arrives I wil test it out!
Greets,
From the Netherlands!
does many things work with ip cameras
Hey, You can follow this guide exactly the same way but replace manything with Ivideon :)
Thanks,
-P
thx soon much. I was going to write a program using raspberry pi and use it with alexa. this soon much easier and free. thx alot!!
thx soon much. I was going to write a program using raspberry pi and use it with alexa. this soon much easier and free. thx alot!!
+Kelly Merrell any time my friend.
Hi Paul, i'm using rm bridge app instead of tasker plugin. I make all steps,port forward e.t.c, convert my dynamic ip to static and then i call this external address to turn on my tv "username:password@mydomainname:7474/code/mycode" but i get "This site can’t be reached" on my chrome browser. Can you help me on this?
+Charis hey man. Not used rm bridge for years and never used it as a http server, but I suppose the diags remain the same. First off are you able to access it via Chrome on the devices internal IP if both devices are on the same network?
Yes i can access it and i'm able to control my devices with http links, but external communication is not posible. I check port and is open on 7474, i'm able to see my router page using my domain name from www.noip.com but when i try "mydomainname:7474/code/...." i get "This site can’t be reached". When i use internal ip address off android phone, is working.
Hi Paul, Quick question. Been using the Broadlink for a few weeks now LOVE IT, though id give the HTTP bridge thing a go, trying to use it with NFC Tags & NFC Pro apparently that can send the same kind of HTTP requests? i have forward router ports as detailed in the RM Plugin, set a user and password but when i try to open the page to get to the API information its not having any of it i get (this page isnt working) ? any ideas what ive done or doing wrong. the RM Plugin is on an android phone with a static IP. Thanks hope you can help. sonny
+Sonny Gallagher are you able to visit the RM plugins internal HTTP address from a PC to see the command list? It will be in the RM plugins settings and will probably be something like 192.168.0.4:9876
No cannot access it, made sure it was typing in the correct ip address and port, (even tried changing the port number incase that was the problem). I was going to see if i could just copy what you had entered but then though if mine wont display there must be a problem and simply copying the code probably wouldnt work.
Sonny Gallagher I assume the android device and PC are both connected to the router via WiFi? The Android device isn't connected via mobile Internet like 4G?
yes thats right, the pc and mobile are connected to the same router, the pc is on ethernet but tried unplugging it and having it connect to the same wifi network but still nothing, continue to get "This page isn’t working 192.168.1.221 didn’t send any data.
ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE
Sonny Gallagher try rebooting the android device. Try unticking the HTTP option in the RM plugin and reticking it. Try changing the port number to something else and visit it on the new port number.
If all that fails, I have to presume your routers firewall is blocking access so might be worth having a poke around in there.
PS: I am not the German "thief"... :-D
has anyone tried this and does it work just want to make sure
I did ;) hahaha. It still works as far as I'm aware. I've not used it for a while, but to my knowledge IFTTT hasn't changed in any way and the Manything app still works the same way too.