If I remember, the fuses on the right are always-on, the fuses on the left are switched. I know F15 is switched where most of the others are continuous power.
Most of the switched items have the relay after the fuse therefore the fuse is always hot. The accessory outlets come from a relay in drivers side panel. I removed the relay and added a jumper wire in its place to keep the outlets always powered. This is probably a good place to get the power needed.
Whatcha doing? I'm just interested because I'm always interested in adding things to my smart hub. I had programmed my porch lights to come on when my GPS on my phone showed that it was getting near the house and it was dark outside, and then turning off 5 minutes later, but I found that my porch lights were turning on and off all night, so the GPS wasn't a good trigger. Are you putting something in the car to activate lights when the car gets within range of your hub?
Use IFTTT on your phone and set a radius of about 1 mile from your home. I change my HVAC settings and intrusion alarm automatically depending on whether my wife or I are at home (inside the set radius).
Thanks for all the feed back, I think I'll put my multi-meter on the passenger side fuse box and find what I'm looking for.
As for what I'm doing:
Putting a Samsung's Arrival sensor in my Volt, but I know I won't remember to keep the coin battery replaced as needed. So I bought a 12v to 3v reducer that I'm looking to power of the accessory batter in the car.
Next I'm putting a door sensor next to where I hang up my charger & a magnet on the charger plug. And a tilt sensor on the garage door.
Then a z-wave RBG bulb over the charger that will change.
Then I should be able to program the logic in my smarthings hub to remind me via the RGB bulb to plug in the car and close the garage door.
If car is away light off.
If car is home AND door is open AND charger still on wall = Red light
If car is home AND (door is closed OR charger is off wall) = Yellow light
If car is home AND door is closed AND charger is off wall) = Green light
My wife drives the car most of the time, and is good about these things, but I forget because I don't drive as often because I work from home. PLUS it's just cool to me.
I tapped the Onstar fuse on the dive side fuse panel for my dashcam.
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