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boltz
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The kids have a little electric ride on car and park it in the garage when done, they leave the doors slightly ajar and its always once i'm ready for bed and try to set night mode that i then deduce the garage door isn't bolted... the solution i'm after is a simple text at, say 20:00 every day IF a certain zone is open (the garage doors).
Is this possible with comfort? it seems oh so simple but i can't seem to manage it.
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| Posted: Wednesday Aug 17th, 2011 07:15 am |
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You can use the Time Program feature; set it to be triggered everyday at 20:00 and put a time program response to check the garage door and trigger an alarm if the garage door is currently open.
That alarm in turns shall be programmed to send a text to you.
See the attached configuration file.
I use Time Program number 5.
And I've modified the alarm number 14 to become 'GarageDoorOpen' alarm; you can see this under Security Type Settings >> Alarm Types.
This alarm is programmed to text to phone number 3 (assuming the phone no. 3 is the SMS number).
So if the garage door is still open at 20:00 it will send a text like this:
0000 - Garage Door Open - 00
Attachment: SMS Notification.cclx (Downloaded 10 times)
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| Posted: Wednesday Aug 17th, 2011 07:17 am |
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Excellent i shall give it a try tonight!
Thanks
Adam
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| Posted: Wednesday Aug 17th, 2011 07:43 am |
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I've done something slightly different. I have a CBus installation and I have a spare switch on my Neo keypad in my kitchen.
What I've done is in Cbus created a 1 second On|Off pulse and assigned it to the switch's LED. Whenever the garage door/zone is open then this LED flashes so it immediately attracts my attention. This way if the garage door is open I will see a flashing LED on my CBus Neo keypad.
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| Posted: Monday Sep 26th, 2011 09:14 am |
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boltz
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Hi, did this, it worked and is great, the downside is for each "check" i want to make i have to define an alarm type to get the zonename in the text.
Is there any "variable" that cen be used so the zonename is pushed through from the response?
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| Posted: Monday Sep 26th, 2011 11:45 am |
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You can actually use the same alarm type with different zones
The zone name is automaticallly transmitted in the text message
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| Posted: Monday Sep 26th, 2011 11:47 am |
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hmm, not so for me so i must be doing something wrong, instead, if i renamed the alarm zone to "SMSCheck" i then got a text saying My house - SMSCHeck Notify - 00
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| Posted: Monday Sep 26th, 2011 11:56 am |
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Have you mixed up alarm types and zones?
The SMS message has the format
Alaphanumeric ID - Alarm Type - Zone Name
My house - SMSCHeck Notify - 00
SMSCheckNotify would be the alarm type, not the zone name
The zone name should be the last field
What firmware are you on
I suggest you upgrade to the latest UCM/GSM at http://www.cytech.biz/firmware.html for GSM and Comfort Ultra
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| Posted: Monday Sep 26th, 2011 11:58 am |
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Hi, I'm on latest 6.xxx revs on all modules on this system as needed for zones above 64..
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| Posted: Monday Sep 26th, 2011 12:14 pm |
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OK, Check the names of alarms and zones acording to what I described
The zone type of the zone should be assigned to the new common alarm type
If you have different zones assigned to this zone type then each zone will trigger the alarm which will send text with its zone name
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| Posted: Monday Sep 26th, 2011 12:38 pm |
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yes, sorry i meant "alarm type". I will pm you the sites cclx, for now it has 2 alarm types numbers 14 and 26 for the checks.
Reponse is #28, time program is #4 (DoorSMSCheck) and #5 a reminder for me (DoorSMSCheck2)
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| Posted: Monday Sep 26th, 2011 01:13 pm |
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You are right. I forgot my own sample program and instructions
You are checking a zone by time program and activating an alarm if the zone is open, so this means of alarm activation does not have a meaningful zone name. hence you need to use the alarm name as a description in the SMS., hence you need a different alarm type for a different zone
So what you have been doing is correct. I dont see any shorter way
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| Posted: Monday Sep 26th, 2011 01:17 pm |
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OK, but i'm going to run out of available alarm types, perhaps i might have a generic one that just says "open zone" to prompt someone to go and do a security check to find it. Its just less "friendly" but given this is my personal alarm at home i can live with this one.
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