actions based on Presence

[amatt 5]

Can someone help me. I have been thinking about how the logic would work and cannot come up with the correct Lua code to make this work correctly.

 

Goal: want the door to unlock when I arrive at home and lock when I leave and send a message (push, email etc..) every time. but if I am home/not home I don't want it to keep locking/unlocking and sending me a message

 

*I already have fibaro looking for my phone to see if I'm present. a global variable keeps a number count present =1 not present = 0

 

 

 

so the logic I came up with is like this:

 

Check

 

Present=0 then lock door and send message

 

check 

 

present =0 (still not at home) do nothing

 

check

 

present = 1 unlock door and send message

 

check

 

present = 1 (still at home) do nothing

 

etc...

 

 

let me know if you have questions or suggestions. 

[AutoFrank 363]

Hi, 

 

I use a mechanism in my LAN monitor VD (see link in my signature to find VD) to send just one message when a device goes offline and another one when it comes back online.

 

It uses a table/array (stored in a global variable ) to track both offline and online state of the device but another table element to track if the message was sent when the state changed ( I think it is called alerttrack in my code)

When the device changes state, it sends message and sets alerttrack=1. This then prevents it from sending message again.

When the device changes state again it sets alerttrack =0, sends message, sets alerttrack=1 again.

 

It would seem similar to what you're looking to do.

 

Take a look at the code and it should be obvious how it works ...

[amatt 5]

@AutoFrank
 

I will give this a try. is there anyway that you can have it send a push notification to your phone instead of an email?

[AutoFrank 363]

I'm sure there is. I'm not at home at the moment but if you search the forum you should find that code ..

The code i referenced should be broken down for the parts you need to send the 'alert once. After that, if it's a viable solution, you'll need to build out your own solution ....

[ianakapilotlight 21]

On 8/21/2018 at 10:10 PM, amatt said:

I will give this a try. is there anyway that you can have it send a push notification to your phone instead of an email?

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For push notifications have you tried https://www.prowlapp.com/