Garage Door Help

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Not sure if this is the best place to post this. If not let me know and I will close and move it. But I want to setup an alert on Vera to alert me if my Garage door is open after 8:00pm. What is the best way to do this?

2

You can use conditional logic program with a scene:

You could setup a scene that runs at 8:00 and conditionally exits if the door is closed:

See: http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,18679.0.html

You can do this in PLEG (Program Logic Event Generator).
See: http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,21603.0.html

The same person (Rex) wrote both writeups.
I am the author of PLEG … if this is as complicated as your logic gets … you can do this with scenes.
If you start wanting to do more sophisticated stuff … you will want to look into PLEG.

3

Thanks RichardTSchaefer, I am trying to do this with PLEG. Issue I was having was trying to figure out how to check the status. I do not mind writing code, not to familiar with LUA but I have google for that.

trying to do something like this
Timer set for 21:00 SMTWTFS

local dID = 16
local status = luup.variable_get("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:SwitchPower1", "Status", dID)
if(status != 1){
// Send alert
}
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Use PLEG. Here’s how to setup the notification. http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php?topic=13874.0

You should have no trouble adding a schedule as an additional condition.

5

If you use a scene that just runs at 8:00pm you need to bear in mind that if it gets left open at 9:00pm it will not trigger.
Use Pleg to check between evening time and morning time (I am sure Richard can suggest best way for this).

6

I have a scene triggered by my garage door. It sends a notification that the door was opened and runs an iPhone check scene which sets the Home/Away house mode.

Personally, I would use PLEG to create a schedule, 8 pm until maybe 6 or 7 am, and a device property, garage door open. You then create a condition when the schedule is active, and the door is open, you send a notification.

You may have an issue spanning a day with the schedule so you can reverse the logic of the schedule. It can run from 6 or 7 am until 8 pm, and if false and door is opened, it would send a notification.