What options do I have to setup alerts while I am away from home? Here are my scenarios:
While I am away from home, I'll want to arm my house for security and intrusion. If a sensor triggers, I would also want to be alerted on my Android phone. At the same time, if my hubitat triggers a siren, then I should be able to take action from my phone to maybe turn off the siren. Is there any way I can set this up, without having to pay a recurring fee to anybody?
Thank you. The HSM app definitely has almost all the monitoring features I need but my question is about the ability for me to take action remotely. E. G., I am away, a siren goes off. Can I turn it off from my Android phone while I am not at home, without having to buy any "remote admin" fee?
You can set up a dashboard and control it through the HE cloud or if you have a separate computer like a Raspberry PI or virtual machine you can create your own personal VPN with WireGuard and use that to access your system remotely.
I prefer the WireGuard solution - as it gives me a "free" vpn using my home internet connection and reduces dependency on cloud services (even currently free ones).
But to access dashboard remotely, won't I need to pay for remote admin?
Dashboard has a cloud and a local endpoint. Local is used when you are connected to your LAN, cloud is used any other time.
The mobile app also allows you to receive Hubitat notifications directly on your phone. So any message sent via a rule pops up as a phone notification. Once you install the app and sign up, the phone will show up as a device in your Hubitat devices list. Then you can program messages to be sent via rules to those devices as a notification.
I thought you needed a 3rd party app to send (push) text messages to your cell phone. Are you suggesting I can receive a message when away from home using rule machine?
Yes, as long as you have the mobile app on your phone, you can get notifications anywhere.
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With the app you cannot send text or sms messages. You can however, receive app notifications that contain the message from the rule.
If you want to use text or sms messages you need to sign up with twilio . Hubitat has a native send for that service.
I find that 99% of the time the app notifications work for my needs.
See example of an app notification below.
With the Hubitat mobile app installed on an iOS or Android device, all of the tasks listed here are possible without any subscription:
https://docs.hubitat.com/index.php?title=Hubitat_Elevation_Mobile_Apps
With respect to dashboards, they are just webpages, so if an individual dashboard has been configured to be accessible through the Hubitat cloud endpoint, it can be reached while away from home (this is configured on a per-dashboard basis, since it’s possible a user doesn’t want a given dashboard to be exposed externally). Dashboards can be viewed either through the mobile app or directly in a mobile web browser.
Edit:
To learn more about how dashboards are setup, I recommend reading this article:
https://docs.hubitat.com/index.php?title=Hubitat®_Dashboard
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