Killing a voice message for 10 minutes

[fleetz]

Have a drive way sensor which picks up cars or people approaching a remote located house. The owners want to know when someone approaches. When the sensor is secured then M1 says "driveway". The are times when people might congregate out by where the sensor and every few seconds with the moment it rattles off "driveway" and the folks inside are driven nuts.

What they would like is a after the sensor fires once and say driveway it ignores say the next 10 minutes from announcing driveway.

Would appreciate any thoughts on how that might be done. THought the way to go is using a counter but I have not used them before and after a half a day thought I would seek some assistance from the resident gurus here

Regards,

Fleetz

 

[tmbrown97]

should be pretty simple.

Rule 1.
Whenever Driveway sensor is secured AND output 201 is OFF then Turn output 201 on for 10 Minutes

Rule 2
Whenever Output 201 turns on, announce "Driveway"

This will only trigger once every 10 minutes because of the Output 201 (pick an unused output of your choice).

You MIGHT be able to get away with it in a single rule - such as:

Whenever driveway sensor is secured AND output 201 is OFF then announce "Driveway"
Turn Output 201 ON for 10 minutes.

The reason for adding the second rule is that I've seen funny behavior when checking for an output, changing it, and doing something based on it all in the same rule... when you break it up like that it works better (it's not always logical - just something I learned from experience). Also, it should use the same rule-space because each action takes up a rule anyways.

 

[BraveSirRobbin]

Might not be optimal for you, but there is a hardware solution to this as well. Hook the sensor to an Elk-960 timer relay module then just set the dial for how many minutes you want to 'lock out' the sensor from tripping again. Not cheap (around $30 I believe) but they are nice units and the owner can even adjust the large white knob as he sees fit after it's installed.

 

[fleetz]

Thanks guys for your valuable input.

Regards,

Fleetz