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Here is what I am looking to do... I am in the security industry and have access to a lot of cool toys...  I have a hawking HRDS1 Door sensor hooked up to one of my access control systems... I would like to have a valid card read send an output or closure to the HRDS1 sensor and in turn have the sensor turn on the lights. I cant seem to get the sensor to work in the thinkessentials application and would love to write an app that will ride on my windows pc and listen for a state change from the HRDS1 senor and activate lighting controls.I just dont know where to start...

Please help

Erick

 Hi Erick,

Are you able to at least include the sensor into your TE network?

 I add the device and it says it takes but I dont see it anywhere...Maybe I should start over. Fyi I have about 20 devices on this network... plug in modules and light switches...My biggest goal is to get the Door sensor to activate a single light or scene when the door is open.... 

Thanks

Erick

 Erick,

Today, TE cannot perform the association that you're looking to do.  However, the Vizia RF+ remote can.  If you have one of those, you can go ahead and treat the device like a scene controller, and associate an area to activate to it in the settings menu.  

As for the device not being added, could it be hidden behind the flyout bar?  This is an annoying thing that ThinkEssentials does when adding devices sometimes, and we're looking at a way to fix it.  Simply minimize the flyout with the Design/Scenes/Areas, and check to see if the device is there.