Help needed in fine tuning a virtual alert device

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Hi chaps, I’ve created a virtual device so that I can send alerts directly to my Android phone (a bit quicker than email, more conifigurable etc etc). However, I could so with some help in fine tuning my .xmls and my .json.

Basically, it’s a device that you configure to send a message via a cloud server - it works but it doesn’t look optimal :-/

Would appreciate any feedback on the files attached below !

Richard.

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I’ve cleaned/fixed the files a bit for you.

In the service file, , and “sendEvents” are not needed.
Also, must be present for the default value to work.

In the implemntation file, the and tags are required only if there will be serial communication.

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Thanks !

I look forward to putting that into the latest release. Don’t fancy helping out by any chance ?!

Regards,

Richard.

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Sure, what do you need help with?

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I am writing a (firstly specific to Android) alerting module. I don’t have the time to write a complete native home automation app, but so far I’ve noticed that the ones out there don’t take advantage of a few of the newer features.

So I put together a proof-of-concept which enables you to be alerted directly from vera to your Android phone via “c2dm” which is Google’s way of pretty much instantaneous alerts - I’ll try and upload a youtube vid in a few days of it in action, but it’s real quick - ie I open my front door and whilst the door is still moving, I get the alert on the phone.

What I want to do is expand upon the basic virtual device I’ve cobbled together mainly from other devices and add a few options, features to it etc so that I can prioritise alerts , different alarm signals / states, perhaps even with some alarm acknowledgement / escalation put in as well (this last part is all server side).

But… my knowledge of vera .xml devices , lua and the json tags is very lacking. I’ve tried looking at the docs and even though they are well written, some of them don’t align with what I am seeing on my vera.

Soooo. the help I need is getting a cracking good json + lua bits so that the setup is a little more straightforward and also looks good in the vera pages. Also, if you want to help test, that would be great too. You don’t even need an Android phone (although that would help immensely), just the SDK / Emulator which you can download from the android / google site.

If it does get to be public-ready then I would definitely cut you in on the sales - at this stage I would release 2 versions under the “freemium” model.

Thanks ! Hope we can move this forward !!

Richard.