Snaplink Email Functionality - Part 2

[tealcomp]

I was able to get the SMS functionality / notification working but now I am looking for one other item. Right now when an alarm trips, all I get is a vague notification that a burglar alarm has occurred. The problem for me is, I am not getting detail as to which zone was tripped. The data is in the SnapLink console log, but that is not being relayed via the SMS. The reason this is a problem for me, is we have several cats in the house, and upstairs where there is a half wall, when they get up on the wall, you guessed it, the pet immune sensor is being tripped and it generates an alarm. Today when I was out, the same thing happened and once more until I was able to get home and check the log I had no way of knowing whether it was real or false. Does anyone know of a way to achieve the goal I am after ? The goad would be essentially to have detail in the SMS that indicated the Studio motion was the trip..

As always I appreciate any insight from fellow members.

-Dan

 

[HAI_fjh]

Unfortunately the alarm event notification that Snap-Link triggers on does not contain the zone information, but I belive you can achieve your goal.

I was thinking of using a button event to notify you about specific Zone violations. Something like this in the controller:

WHEN Studio Motion NOT READY
AND IF AWAY
THEN RUN Cat Tripped Alarm

The button doesn't have to do anything but Snap-Link will be able to detect that it was triggered. The second part is to set up a notification in Snap-Link that is triggered by the "Cat Tripped Alarm" button.

Another thing to consider is to possibly not make the studio motion an alarm zone, or set up cross zoning so that it requires more than just that one zone to trigger an alarm. It would seem to me that even if you knew it was the cats and didn't rush hone the neighbors would get annoyed at the alarm going off? Just a suggestion...

 

[tealcomp]

Hi Fred:

That suggestion worked like a charm thank you. I actually did look into cross-zoning but concluded it would not be practical. As for the alarm, you cannot hear it outside of the house, it's really more for our notification.

Thanks again for the recommendation.