I recently got the THIRDREALITY Zigbee Vibration Sensor with 110dB Alarm and I have successfully paried it with HE.
My goal is to use it as an alarm, but not just for vibration. For instance, I want to be able to trigger it's alarm if a temp sensor I have in my freezer goes above 0 F.
The problem is, in the Rule Machine, I do not see any options to trigger this alarm. Is it possible? Am I choosing the driver wrong?
If this sensor can't do it, what auditory alarm system can I use to warn me for urgent matters? I am already working on a blinking red light, but I need audio too.
I thought about Echo Speaks, but since the Heroku server becoming paid, I do not have the technical skills to install a server on my PC (and I do not want to deal with all that for now anyway).
I've got notifications going on the Pushover phone app; $5 lifetime fee, last time I checked.
I also use Ecolink Chime/Siren. It's Z-wave, has included battery backup, and has pre built siren sounds and also the ability to announce sounds base on recordings you make to an SD card. There's a nice thread on the forum on how to do that. I use the siren for the Z-wave smoke/co detector out in the garage, and voices for stuff like "a garage door has opened", "the gate has opened", "the hub has restarted" (lol), etc, etc.
On a side note, I'm not familiar with freezers, but my relatively new side-by-side periodically does its defrosting thing, so you have to take that into account. The way I did it, as I recall, was just raise the temp threshold, but, now that I type about it, the high freezer temp in the defrost cycle is transitory, so a rule taking time into account might be the ticket.
The fact that the alarm and vibration-sensitivity settings are physically set via dip-switches for this device makes me wonder if it's even possible to otherwise "tap into" the alarm feature.
Curious to see if you can get this working -- it would be pretty neat!
So how is Pushover app different than regular notifications? Because there are free notifications in HE for both Android and Apple. They are a bit wonky, I must say, but that might be how I set them up (possibly not perfect).
I will now look at Ecolink Chime/Siren, I guess I missed that one. That sounds really good and exactly what I need. Not sure how I did not see that? And I am understanding that you can trigger it like how I want to, right?
Oooh that defrosting is a nice point, I gotta think about that. Though first I need to have a siren to worry about that lol.
I will keep trying it, since I really like ThirdReality products so far. But the fact that there is not a button under Commands in the Device details (on HE) to trigger the device and the fact that it does not have a status attribute for the chime is worrisome:
