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 Posted: Thursday Feb 2nd, 2017 11:22 pm
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Core opens up a world of opportunities. CoRE . 
Its basically a rules Engine. I'm using it for a number of tasks but planning on adding many more. One very useful option is to receive a notification when the alarm is set. Here's how I did it:

After installation of core, obviously.....
Go into Core  Automation's > Smartapps > Core >Add a Core Piston

Piston Mode = Basic (default)
Click "IF"
Then "Add a Condition"
Click "Capability"
Select "switch"
Click "Switch List"
Select - In my case I selected all Alarm modes - 
"ComfortAlarm Away",  "ComfortAlarm Day", "ComfortAlarm Vacation" - or whatever your equivalents are named - or indeed which ones you actually want to receive notification from.
Once selected hit Done and it will drop you back to Condition #1
You will see the alarm modes you selected in the switch list.
Now click "Comparison" - "is"
Then Value to "on"
Now hit Done - 
You have now set up your IF - now you need to set up THEN.


Click "THEN"
"add an Action"
turn on first box "location"
"add a task"
select "send notification"
Type your "message"
Hit Done.
Give your Piston a name and hit Done.


A few additions.
NB Notifications send to all users who are on your ST network with the app on their device. Assuming you don't want to bother them with these notifications at the "add task" point you can alternatively select "send SMS" instead. I haven't worked out an alternative workaround - it seems its a limitation of ST.

ALSO

You can obviously add more "ACTIONS" - in my case I added open driveway Gate and turn on specific lights, etc, etc.
Hope that helps.

Last edited on Thursday Feb 2nd, 2017 11:36 pm by DavidJ

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