Hi, I have this problem where my son with autism goes down to the basement, and either opens the extra fridge or the freezer and leaves the door open. I have contact sensors on the door now, and I'm just trying to find the right app to notify us. Here's what I'm looking for.
When the door opens it should wait 10 minutes. If it remains open 10 minutes or longer it should flash lights, activate a siren strobe, and send a text message to three phones. When the door shuts again it should immediately disarm.
I've looked, but every app seems to have one piece and not the other. Any ideas?
I have not switched to HE just yet. And I am not familiar with Rule Machine, yet. But I do know that webcore can easily meet the tasks you desire. The learning curve can sometimes be discouraging. But the benefits are worth it. And there is a very active, helpful webcore community.
As stated above, install the Twilio driver and follow the instruction to setup an account, they have a test account with a free x$ amount of credit for testing, then after that it costs very little to use (a lot less than a freezer full of food).
Setup a rule like JohnRop used as an example with your tweaks and test it out.
I have this kind of setup for sump pump water level, freeze alarms in an outside pump house, water leaks all over and power outages. This is in my opinion a better insurance than insurance it self because you can react instead of correcting after the fact.
Thank you! I didn't use the whole thing you posted but you made me think outside the "Smarthings box" so to speak. Something I have to get used to with HE.
What I ended up doing is using RuleEngine to create the trigger, delay, and actions, but I also created a virtual switch for Rule Engine to turn on after the delay. IFTTT monitors that one switch, and when it turns on it sends me notifications, and calls my phone to yell at me.
