Im running UI5 and have trigger alerts setup for my gate via a door/window sensor. The problem I am having is the “alerts” are way too bloated.
Here is an example of what shows up on my SMS / email.
“(Notification) Trigger:Gate Open, device:26 Gate Sensor in , details:Tripped=1, alert #5171649051, serial #35020551”
Is there an add on or a way to tweak this so that it can be simplified? When I’m in hands free mode with my phone in my car I don’t want to hear all of that when I open something or trigger something.
And yes I did search the forum but most of the posts are referring to UI7. I’m not upgrading to that until it gets better options & stability.
Thanks in advance.
Using the Vera Alerts Plugin allows you to customize the alert message.
There are LOTS of ways to deliver the messages to your phone … On Android they can be spoken to you.
I was looking at that but I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around it. I just installed it but I can’t figure out how to set it up. I am wanting to have it send an email and also an SMS to my phone. I really don’t want to have to add another app to my phone to make things work.
I just want “simple” notifications like…
“Gate open at 11:24am” or “Left garage door open at 12:03pm” or “Alarm deactivated at 5:00pm”
Just looking for notifications, not an in depth summary. If its something I’m concerned about I can access it directly through my apps or browser.
[quote=“Shoktronic, post:3, topic:186717”]I was looking at that but I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around it. I just installed it but I can’t figure out how to set it up. I am wanting to have it send an email and also an SMS to my phone. I really don’t want to have to add another app to my phone to make things work.
I just want “simple” notifications like…
“Gate open at 11:24am” or “Left garage door open at 12:03pm” or “Alarm deactivated at 5:00pm”
Just looking for notifications, not an in depth summary. If its something I’m concerned about I can access it directly through my apps or browser.[/quote]
Using the app is simple, and makes it look clean. Gives you a pop up alert with the time and notification, as said it can be spoken to you. If you click on it or open the app it give a nice log layout of times and days of what happened. If you have cameras when an alert is sent a snapshot can also be sent with that notification.
Sending Emails and SMS don’t get a nice format and clutters things up let alone using both. That’s a double notification on the same device.
Vera Alerts you can set a custom message for your notifications. So you can have it say what ever you input.
[quote=“Shoktronic, post:3, topic:186717”]I was looking at that but I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around it. I just installed it but I can’t figure out how to set it up. I am wanting to have it send an email and also an SMS to my phone. I really don’t want to have to add another app to my phone to make things work.
I just want “simple” notifications like…
“Gate open at 11:24am” or “Left garage door open at 12:03pm” or “Alarm deactivated at 5:00pm”
Just looking for notifications, not an in depth summary. If its something I’m concerned about I can access it directly through my apps or browser.[/quote]
Also Vera alerts plugin can be setup to send alerts to Email or pushbullet, prowl or a buch of other places. It doesn’t have to just to go the free Andriod app.
But again I would recommend you try it, its really much nicer and most used method (unless you have an APPLE phone) then prowl probley is.