It seems like everyone has their own way of making their system remind them to take out the trash. Here's mine. First, we have this block:
"Trash Day" is a user setting configured to the days-of-week type. Our trash is normally picked up early in the morning on Tuesday, so we need to put it out Monday evening. On holiday weeks, I can set "Trash Day" to a different day manually using PC Access, and this will set it back to Monday after that week.
When I arrive home from work and disarm the system, this will remind me right away to take out the trash. But if, say, I'm telecommuting that day, the alarm might not ever be set during the day. So I also have this:
This is the backup reminder in case I haven't left the house that day. Note that both of these code blocks turn the message flag off, so that it only reminds once. If we are away from home on trash day, the flag will shut itself off at midnight, so that it doesn't issue an after-the-fact reminder on the day we return.
Code:
24. TIMED 11:00 AM Trash Day
THEN Trash Message Flag ON FOR 13 HOURS
THEN SET Trash Day TO M------"Trash Day" is a user setting configured to the days-of-week type. Our trash is normally picked up early in the morning on Tuesday, so we need to put it out Monday evening. On holiday weeks, I can set "Trash Day" to a different day manually using PC Access, and this will set it back to Monday after that week.
Code:
75. WHEN OFF
AND IF Trash Message Flag ON
THEN SHOW TRASH NIGHT! WITH BEEP
THEN Trash Message Flag OFFWhen I arrive home from work and disarm the system, this will remind me right away to take out the trash. But if, say, I'm telecommuting that day, the alarm might not ever be set during the day. So I also have this:
Code:
33. TIMED 5:45 PM MTWTF--
AND IF Trash Message Flag ON
AND IF OFF
THEN SHOW TRASH NIGHT! WITH BEEP
THEN Trash Message Flag OFFThis is the backup reminder in case I haven't left the house that day. Note that both of these code blocks turn the message flag off, so that it only reminds once. If we are away from home on trash day, the flag will shut itself off at midnight, so that it doesn't issue an after-the-fact reminder on the day we return.
