Help showing all door state with rule machine to dashboard

[kkuipers]

what I'm trying to do, and I just can't seem to get my head around it, is:

Trigger a rule when any door is open (Konnected door sensors)

Have a dashboard tile that displays green when all doors are closed and Yellow when a door is open. (just change the tile, no alarm action) I've tried configuring a virtual contact but I can't seem to get it to display properly on the dashboard.

Ideally I'd like to show what door is open but that can come later.

Thanks for your help and feedback.

[Ryan780]

You can create a virtual contact sensor and then write a rule that if any of these are open display open for the virtual and in the false have the virtual display closed. You would just have to create a custom command in RM as well.

[stephack]

I no longer use the HE Dashboard but this should be possible...Unless this has changed recently.

Assuming you added the door with the "door" template, you should be able to click on Template Colors in the top right corner of the dashboard settings window. The select the template to edit..in this case "door"...and then select the state (open or closed). This should let you set a background color for each state.

My steps above might be a bit different wording wise because I'm going from memory but it should be obvious when you see it. I do remember getting the colors to save correctly was tricky though...good luck.

[kkuipers]

Which dashboard are you using?
I'm looking to implement on fire tablets.

Thanks

[stephack]

@kkuipers

Which dashboard are you using?

Sharptools. Keep in mind this is cloud based only.
The HE dashboard does both local and cloud.

[kkuipers]

Thanks,

I've been playing with sharptools.
I'm trying to keep everything local.

[ajones]

I have Contact Sensors on my gates, a tilt sensor on my garage door, and two Z wave deadbolts. I have alerts that let me know when all these change states. I am trying to best implement an hourly alert (pushover) to remind me if someone leaves the garage open or gates open. Any ideas on how i would evaluate this each hour?

[stephack]

@ajones

Any ideas on how i would evaluate this each hour?

I'm not sure I understand why you would need to evaluate this every hour. Would you like to be reminded every hour that it was left open?

This is a basic rule I use to alert me if the garage Door is left open for more than 5 minutes. It will continue to alert me every 5 minutes until the door is closed.

[Ryan780]

Just add a Repeat every 60 minutes onto whatever rule is sending the notification with a cancel on state change. If you mean to re-evaluate whether it's open or not, you don't have to do that, it would happen as soon as it is opened or closed.

[ajones]

Awesome! Thanks. I knew i was overcomplicating it. I leave the gates open when i mow or put the boat away. also various friends and relatives sometimes use the gates to get to the backyard. I don't want to just be nagged when the gate opens, but want the whole house to know before they let the dog out. I ended up with the below. May change to one per device so that i can get tailored pushover messages based on the device.

[stephack]

Looks good. The way you have it now will give you messages with the device name that was left in an undesired state. I would recommend you create a separate one for each device, as you suggested, because you may run into confusion when multiple devices are in that state. The repeated alerts would only repeat the original message until all devices returned to "false" evaluation.

Eg door 1 and door 2 are your devices.
Door 1 is left open which starts the door 1 pushover alerts.
Door 2 is then left open.
The alerts are still only for door 1.
Door 1 is closed but door 2 is left open.
The alerts are still only for door 1.

So basically the alert for the first device that starts the alert is repeated until the condition evaluates to false.