Vera Alerts Plugin Version 2.1

Apps & Remote Access VeraAlerts
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I have just released a new Version of the Vera Alert Plugin for Vera 3 with major new functionality. It is backward compatible with the existing Plugin. If you have auto-upgrade it should download soon.

It’s still in MCV audit.

Major new functionality:

[ul][li]Your Device Notifications, and Scene Trigger notifications can be sent out via Vera Alerts with NO luup code required.
You can already add a message as a Command in a scene as part of the Advanced tab of the scene. Lots of options … with no Luup code.[/li]
[li]The message strings now support a generalized template syntax.
What does that mean ?
You can embed just about any data from and device in Vera into your message in a nicely formatted manner. Still a little complex … but I will post some simple examples later.[/li]
[li]Since I could send Vera Alert message on any Vera system notification, without needing Luup code I extended this to SMTP messaging as well. Through the Vera Alerts Plugin any notification can be sent to your Android AND/OR any SMTP email address.[/li]
[li]You can override the default message string for any notification and use some of the template features described above if you like.
This should make it easier to get the Vera Alerts Android app to speak a nice message when a notifcation happens.[/li][/ul]

I still have a few more things on the wish list … let me know what you think.

The documentation is still being upgraded … but it covers the basics:
[url=http://RTS-Services.com/Vera/Plugin/VeraAlerts]http://RTS-Services.com/Vera/Plugin/VeraAlerts[/url]

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Will UI4 be supported? It seems that people are beginning to accept the pain of UI5.

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I marked the plugin Vera3 only because I no longer have a Vera2/UI4 setup to test.
I do not think I have dependencies on any UI5 only interfaces.

I have updated the web page with instructions and a zip file on how to download and install manually. Let me know (via email) if you have problems and I will help you through it.

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Looks like you are using C2DM, which was depreciated by Google on June 26, and no longer taking new users.

Google Cloud Messaging for Android (GCM) is the replacement for C2DM. Are you planning to update your app to use GCM?

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I will have to look into this.
By no mew members do you mean End Users like your self or services like “Vera Alerts” ?

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[quote=“RichardTSchaefer, post:5, topic:173393”]I will have to look into this.
By no mew members do you mean End Users like your self or services like “Vera Alerts” ?[/quote]

the official info… Cloud to Device Messaging (Deprecated)  |  Google Developers

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Today I installed on a new Android with a new Google Account.
I was able to access VeraAlerts.

I will update the APP in two Stages:
[ul][li]Android Client to Accept both C2DM and GCM[/li]
[li]Plugin Side to Change to GCM[/li][/ul]

I will get to this soon so that there is no disruption in service as Google continues to decommission C2DM.

That’s the only part of the original development I have not changed …

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There are problems with Vera Alert for some characters.
In particular single and double quotes and some punctuation characters for foreign languages.

If you use the new Notifications this can also show up as a problem if these characters are in the
device name and/or notification name.

I will get this fixed before the end of the year. I have some other changes planned for that time frame.

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Hi Richard,
I’m testing your Plug In. It seems more complete but more complex too.
Have many options that that require to me read carefully your manual. I would like to learn how to send Alerts to my Galaxy Note.
As I haven’t seen any info about luup code, can you tell me if is possible to change the subject of the Email.
Also, is more a Lua thing, but how can I add Line feed in my message. My massage is in the same line as the “Aux Message”.
Does it support HTML tags?

Would be nice a loud Siren Alarm in my Android when I detect something abnormal in my house.

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As I haven't seen any info about luup code, can you tell me if is possible to change the subject of the Email.
I do not have options to change the subject ... but I do plan to put the "Notification Name" in the subject.
how can I add Line feed in my message. My massage is in the same line as the "Aux Message"
Aux message is just concatenated to the end of the message. You should be able to use [b]\n[/b] to start a new line.
Would be nice a loud Siren Alarm in my Android when I detect something abnormal in my house.
There are lots of loud and annoying ringtones available ... Vera Alert will use any installed ringtone.
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Since I have Vera2 / UI4 I tried to manually install the VeraAlert files. (I already had the previous plugin installed).

But, when I upload the files, the .lua files don’t get compressed - that is they upload OK, but do not get the lzo file extension appended indicating that they have been compressed. Thus when the plugin loads it cant find those files.

I thought I had seen this before but I cannot remember what the solution was - and I have searched the forums.

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It requires to add the /etc/cmh-ludl on the load path for UI4 …
I can post code tomorrow …

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Thanks Richard.

Looks like you’ll be busy tonight with a new release to use the new GCM anyway!

If you could slip in the fix for UI4 too that would be great :slight_smile:

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will the new plugin support google talk like the original dev?

you could put in address@gmail.com and it would send you a google talk message.