Garage door open alerts

#1

1) Give a description of the problem

I am getting both alerts when the modes are away or home sleep when the garage door is opened. I need to figure out how to only send one of the alerts to our phones.

2) What is the expected behavior?

If the garage door is left open and we go away or the mode changes to “home sleep”, I want an alert that the door was left open. If the garage door is OPENED when we are away or mode is “home sleep” I want to get an alert that the garage door has been opened. I do not need both alerts to be pushed.

3) What is happening/not happening?

Currently, if we are in either of the modes listed in the piston and the garage door opens, we receive the alert that the garage door has opened AND that it is open. Can’t figure out a way to only send one notification.

**4) Post a Green Snapshot of the piston!

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I’m sure this is something very simple, but I can’t quite figure out how to get this functioning properly. Thanks in advance guys and gals!

#2

Try this:

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(Change ‘Dummy Contact’ to the name of your contact sensor)

#3

Thanks so much for getting that to me so quickly. One quick question regarding the push notifications. Who will that push to? Anyone who has the ST app installed? In the original piston I had to specify who the push notifications went to and wasn’t sure if that’s something I’ll need to update on the new one. Thanks again for your awesome response!

#4

Push notifications will always go to all devices with the ST app installed… as far as I’m aware, you’re method of using ‘with presence x and y’ does not limit the push to just those devices.

#5

Perfect!! That makes things even easier.

#6

Push notifications can be directed to an individual person in your environment given the contact book has been enabled

#7

That makes sense about the push notifications. Even though I originally specified who they were to be sent to, we also received a second push directly from ST. I think I’ll just let it continue that way seeing that my wife and I both have ST installed on our phones.

#8

It is a different command.

Send push notification… it’s goes to all registered to that location.

Send sms notification… it goes to the number specified

Send notification to contact… you can select push and/or text and who it goes to.

#9

Gotcha. Thanks very much for your help. The piston is running perfectly. Everyone here goes above and beyond to make sure everyone understands the fully functionality of webcore which is awesome. Thanks again!