Vera Alerts

Cor · December 29, 2012, 5:43pm

No joy yet

The default of the "message repeat delay"was 30 , I changed it to 1 and rebooted.
I still only get a notification icon on the top of my cellphone , but no sound.
When I remove again the {tone:tts} from the “Additional Configuration tab of Vera Alerts” I get my "barking dogs " sound again. As soon when I insert the code {tone:tts}, nothing happends, only the small icon on my homescreen.

Attached some more screenshots,
the first one from my vera 3 (veraalerts.jpg) , the aditional configuration tab.
second one is a random device , a light which gives a notification (gatelights.jpg)
3th one is a screenshot of the galaxy S3 of vera alerts (S3_1.jpg)
4th is the notification when the code is {tone:tts} is inserted (top of the list),it shows the “t” with time and date. the bottom is when it the alert 1 is played.(S3_2.jpg)
5th is confirmation of the message repeat delay (S3_3.jpg)
6th is a screenshot of the volumes of the S3 (S3_4.jpg)

What else can i do to make it working

many thanks,

edit I am not allowed to attach more screenshots, the first 2 screenshots can be seen in my post on " December 28, 2012, 01:18:16 am",
Cor

GroundLoop · December 29, 2012, 6:56pm

The “t” in the leftmost column is interesting. When I use numbered alert tones, I also get a digit in the far left.
If I have no numbered alert, there is sometimes a space in the left column, sometimes no space.

As to why the speech isn’t working, does it talk correctly if you “Override” in the options to force all messages to TTS?
(Just to verify your speech engine and VA are working together)
If this doesn’t talk either, something else is wrong.

(‘Override’ still plays the alert tone in addition to TTS. I like it. My lowest level (1) is silence (or just speech announcement), then 2-5 are progressively longer and more urgent tones followed by announcement.)

Cor · December 30, 2012, 2:50am

@ Groundloop: yeah, that is working; I ticked the “overide alert tone” box and I heard the “alert1” tone and a bit later the voice saying the notification. I did get the “t” again in the left colomn.

Once more I tried the code in the “Additional Configuration tab of Vera Alerts” like in the screenshot below, just the small icon on the screen appeared but no sounds at all, even when the box “overide alert tone” it doesn’t work with this code.

Very wierd,

Anyone knows what’s wrong?

Cor

GroundLoop · December 30, 2012, 4:12am

I don’t think you can put {tone:tts} by itself – it needs text to follow. Like this: “{tone:tts} This is the text to read aloud.”

That said, I haven’t tried it. I prefer to set the Tone vs Voice in the client side. (Ideally, each alert level would have its own client-side use-tone vs. use-tts, but it’s not like we are lacking options already.)

The whole thing got much simpler once I stopped using Notifications, Users, or any of the automatic associations and just made raw SendAlert calls.
It took just a few lines of LUA code to encapsulate the recipients I wanted, master conditions (like Awake vs Sleeping), and then just call those functions with message arguments from the Luup code in triggers or scenes. Now I can make changes to all the messages in one place (like swapping tts for alerts, etc).

Cor · December 30, 2012, 4:42pm

YES!!! this worked. There should have been a text after “the code”.
many thanks

One more question concerning hardware, I will now buy a cheap second hand android device, it will act as a doorbell-sound. What are the minimum requirements for veraalerts?

thanks,
Cor

S-F · December 30, 2012, 5:05pm

I believe it must run Android 2.2 +. Otherwise I’m not sure if phone horsepower or anything like that makes a difference.

S-F · December 30, 2012, 8:56pm

[quote=“signal15, post:49, topic:172920”]It can. Create a directory on your SD called “Notifications”, and put your MP3 in it. Then in the app, select it as one of the tones, and call it with the luup code. You can only have 5 of them right now though.

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@ signal15, May I ask how you figured this out? To my knowledge this isn’t in any of the documentation. Pretty slick. This is one of the couple big things I’ve been wanting from Vera Alerts.

The other is the ability to randomize the message. This is possible in HomeSeer and by all accounts it gives a higher level of humanity to the house. Last night the Mrs. was complaining that it always says the same thing. Imagine having 10 or so possible notifications Vera Alerts chooses from.

RichardTSchaefer · December 31, 2012, 4:52am

The next release you can associate as many sound files to text fragments as you want.

You identify then as on the client side.
You can embed this string in an existing string … or it can be the whole message.

These can be saved text in your own voice … or anything you wish.

houk · January 3, 2013, 10:47am

Recently upgraded android on Samsung Galaxy to ver 4.2.1 and vera alerts stop receiving any alerts.
Used titanium backup to migrate app and setting also tried to unregister and register again an still not working.
Any idea?

Upgrade app solve problem.

otterlo · January 3, 2013, 11:13am

Hi

There is a problem with Google push notifcation services, since 2nd of Jan.
Richard is working hard to release an upgrade of this app.

There is another post on this forum describing the problem.

mike_Q · January 31, 2013, 3:55am

Will Vera Alerts work on a Kindle Fire HD? Assuming you could get an .apk to install? Or is the google messaging service not running on Fires?

RichardTSchaefer · January 31, 2013, 5:44am

I do not think the GCM is running on Kindle.
Someone may have some hacks out there for this …
In the meantime, you can use it at home using local area network.

signal15 · February 1, 2013, 9:18pm

[quote=“RichardTSchaefer, post:72, topic:172920”]I do not think the GCM is running on Kindle.
Someone may have some hacks out there for this …
In the meantime, you can use it at home using local area network.[/quote]

This works now?

RichardTSchaefer · February 1, 2013, 9:30pm

This works now?

If by This you mean LAN … it was in the last release.

signal15 · February 1, 2013, 9:54pm

[quote=“RichardTSchaefer, post:74, topic:172920”]This works now?
If by This you mean LAN … it was in the last release.[/quote]

Sweet!

mike_Q · February 6, 2013, 4:23pm

[quote=“RichardTSchaefer, post:72, topic:172920”]I do not think the GCM is running on Kindle.
Someone may have some hacks out there for this …
In the meantime, you can use it at home using local area network.[/quote]

I was planning on using LAN. However, how do I get the App on my Kindle Fire? It’s not in the store so I’d need an .APK to side load it.

Is the .apk available for download somewhere?

RichardTSchaefer · February 6, 2013, 11:13pm

I will add it to my website.

mike_Q · February 7, 2013, 4:16am

Cool. Thanks so much!

Michele · June 8, 2013, 7:35pm

I’m trying to set up Vera Alerts on my new Vera3. I already have the Vera Alerts Android app connected to the Vera2 in my other house. Can I have both Vera’s send notifications to the app? How do I configure that? Do I just type the Registration code displayed in the Android app into the Vera3 VeraAlerts → Notification Configuration → Vera Alerts ID box, and then both Vera’s would send notifications to the Android?

RichardTSchaefer · June 8, 2013, 9:43pm

Can I have both Vera's send notifications to the app?

Yes, they will both use the same VeraAlertsId ... which is unique to the target phone. (Note you can also have two phones ... then each Vera can send the same or different messages to each target).

This is where you might also want to add an Aux Message … So you can sort all messages by where they came from. You might want to add an AuxMessage as:
Sent from Home.
This will get added to all messages sent from the that particular Vera.
You can also use something like:
{Source:Home}
This will not be visible in the message … but you will be able to see it if you Long Click a message on the Android … Also you can use it to Sort the message.

Or you could use:
{FGColor:xFF8080}

This will set the color of the text for all messages coming from this Vera.