Announce door has been left open

[strickers]

Hi
I already use response 45 for announce zone for any door that has been opened but want to add to the same response to say that door \"is open\" after say 10 minutes. To warn me if the door has been left opened.
Thanks in advance,
Chris.

[TheMax74]

I use a timer fot that. When the zone is open, i start the timer by doing a \"do response xxx after 300 seconds using timer yyy\". In response xxx, i say the word \"door open\" and i retrig the same response again \"after 300 seconds using timer yyy\".
When the zone is closed, i stop the timer yyy.

[strickers]

Thanks for your reply.


I have tried to do what you said but think I need a more detailed instructions as am new to this....

Also can I use utilise my \'announce zone\' response with another response of just \'open\'?

so after 300 seconds I get \'back door open\'?

Thanks Chris.

[schford]

This is a bottle of wine (or so :-) )later so you need to do this through the wizard - but basically....

use this back door one as an example create response called BackDoorAnnounce that says something like

If backdoor <> 0
Announce back door open
Endif

create a timer called backdoor

create another response called BackDoorOpen

In that one have something like

Do BackDoorAnnounce after 600 seconds using backdoor

Now in your zone inputs assign BackDoorOpen to the on response to back door...

And if that doesn\'t make sense I blame the wine :-)

A bit more advance is to stop the timer in the off response but as we did the if statement you can get away with not doing it if you want to start simple but Max is the clean way!

Stuart

[strickers]

Thanks for your reply Stuart. Have been away for a while but will give what you said a go and let you know how I get on.
I still dont fully understand but think I just need some thinking time! Chris.