I have managed to get Vera to send pause and play commands to my media player (Fantastic!). Now I would like to pause it several seconds before my alerts fire and them play again maybe 15 seconds after. I have individual scenes to things like people entering and I have Vera Alerts send TTS to the phone through the advanced tab. This tab lists delayed actions but I don’t see a way to great one there, so no way to delay the TTS.
Create a schedule for the scene.
Select the appropriate schedule interval.
Goto the Scene’s advanced tab.
Add a SendAlert from your Vera Alert Device.
Great! Can this only be done with a new scene? I have an experimental scene which reads the time to me. The alert is set as immediate. I deleted the alert, set a delay and when I tried to add an alert it automatically was set under the delay.
Are you sending an Alert from the luup code attached to the scene ?
This is sent immediately before sending any commands associated with the immediate and/or a delayed schedule.
Also if you have a notification for a trigger of the scene … it will fire when it is triggered … which is before the luup code from the scene is executed.
I setup the alerts from the advanced tab of the scene. So what I’m taking away from this is I should use two scenes. One for pausing the media player and restarting it again a little later and one with a delayed (done the way I previously discovered) alert?