Feature Request - Run Notify action from within activities

Plugins & Plugin Development Reactor
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This wasn’t too big of a deal pre 3.6 for Notify->Syslog because there was less of a chance to botch message syntax, but with the improved syntax for Notify messages it would be nice to run the notify from within the activities screen much like you can for device actions with the running person icon.

I write to Syslog quite a bit and I currently test my message syntax in a separate Lab Reactor to make sure my eyes didn’t cross when I created a message containing several variables and white spaces, formatting etc. I then to cut and paste back into the production reactor.

Just a thought.
Thanks,
-bh

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There’s a run button that runs an entire activity in the header of each activity. You can usually find an unused activity in your current ReactorSensor (is FALSE for many groups very often goes unused, for example), and test your notification in that one.

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Thanks for the prompt response!

I saw that and wasn’t really thinking (not unusual) - I can certainly work with that, Thanks !!

Oh, it’s worth a mention for anyone else reading this though. I will just need to be careful to fire off the one that is TRUE in some cases vs FALSE, since for example, if PumpPres is TRUE at test time, and I run the action for PumpPres FALSE, the actions in the FALSE-actions will start a zombie apocalypse mitigation process of cycling things, powering units down etc. which would be an unintended result for the geo-thermal units. I guess that was the long winded way of saying, look at your current state and pick the right one to test as your mileage may vary :slight_smile:

Your solution makes total sense and works for me. Thanks again for the great plug-in.
-bh

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How about the ability to create an activity that is not tied to a condition? since one of the actions we have is the ability run or stop an activity, it would be very helpful in this testing scenario and in some instances where a lot of the activities have a common action.

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I have considered it. It’s not yet in the middle of the radar, but it’s on the fringes.

For the moment, you can create an empty condition group, and that will give you two activities you can use for that purpose (per empty group, so make as many as you want).