I just got my Vera and have started with a simple door sensor. I followed the wiki for setting up a security sensor. the problem I have is that the door open event is only run sporadically. I have set the event up for “an armed sensor is tripped” to notify me. I have also tried just “a sensor is tripped” for it to notify me.
I have looked at the notification logs on findvera.com and i can see every trip and normal status. the armed wasn’t consistent so that’s why I went for just “a sensor is tripped” but while I see all of the trips in the notifications, i rarely get a notification. I thought that there was a min time before i could send another notification, but sometimes it will go with 5 minutes between and sometimes i cant get it to work for over an hour.
Any insight would be helpful. I really wanted the notification to work consistently. I am waiting for my first light control module to arrive tomorrow, hopefully that interaction will work.
i’m aware of the delay in e-mail and sms traffic. I’m not worried about that.
what I am talking about is the event is not activated. The sensor trips, but the event does not fire, so no message is even sent (even if it is slow on delivery) here is a bit of my notifications log. You can see that the arm sensor tripped, nothing happened. but 4 minutes later I tripped the sensor and it fired the door open even (thus generating a message).
Door Open - 2010-01-12 19:40:40
Armed Sensor Tripped - 2010-01-12 19:40:39
Sensor Tripped: NORMAL - 2010-01-12 19:37:29
Sensor Tripped: TRIPPED - 2010-01-12 19:37:05
Sensor Tripped: NORMAL - 2010-01-12 19:36:33
Armed Sensor Tripped - 2010-01-12 19:36:24