My vera goes on away mode when no users are at home. I also have a piper alarm which works with ifttt (or if now). I would like to get this to turn on away mode (by using a recipe on ifttt, f.e.: email #awaymode => set piper to away mode).
It’s the best solution I could come up with, without having to use the piper app each time to do it manually.
However, how do I go about having vera send a predefined email when the status changes? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I am also very interested on this. I have 3 piper nv cameras which are my main security system, and recently I bought a vera plus.
Is there a way to set both in home / away from a single place? Using IFTTT?
I did not exactly complete this with piper but I have done something very similar with my alarm system. Definitely not the best approach so appreciate some feedback.
What I did:
Arm / Disarm my home alarm → send email notification to my Gmail → IFTTT monitors my Gmail → IFTTT maker to send a HTTPS request to my “proxy” web server at home → my “proxy” web server makes a local URL request to my Vera URL to trigger Home / Away mode
So I can only guess here, assuming piper can integrate with IFTTT already…
Arm / Disarm on Piper based on occupancy sensing → Trigger IFTTT channel on piper mode change → IFTTT maker to send a HTTPS request to proxy web server at home → proxy web server makes a local URL request to Vera URL to trigger Home / Away
With my email IFTTT implementation, the status is not very real time, usually there is a few minutes of “lag” on mode switching, but since I just want them to be “generally in sync”, I can live with the few minute lag.
If anything, you may want to lock down the proxy web server URL so it will require some authentication or something. I don’t know what I can do with IFTTT yet so I just do some very “basic” validation so it’s not a URL that “anyone can call from the internet” per se.
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