Virtual alarm for something is left open

#1

1) Give a description of the problem
i want to use echo speak to say door is open in conjunction with smart app “something is left open”
i created a virtual device of type ‘simulated alarm’ and i was hoping that is could be activated by the smart app , the only device that shows up under alert device is my gocontrol siren

2) What is the expected behaviour?
i want to be able to select my virtual alarm in the “something is open” smart app… which i was then hoping to create a simple webcore to call echo speak

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#2

I took a quick look at that SmartApp. It looks to me it like it alerts to devices with the capability ‘tone’, not ‘alarm’. Unfortunately ‘tone’ seems to be purely an actuator so there isn’t an attribute to latch onto. You’d probably need to knock up a custom device handler.

#3

Thanks for the great information! How did you “look” at the SmartApp ? Just curious ?
Tim

#4

In this case I meant I quickly installed it. It was offering me my arrival/presence sensors for alerts so I knew it was ‘tone’ it was working with (they can be told to beep as a key locator sort of thing and that uses the ‘tone’ capability).