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- boltz - 08-16-2011
The kids have a little electric ride on car and park it in the garage when done, they leave the doors slightly ajar and its always once i\'m ready for bed and try to set night mode that i then deduce the garage door isn\'t bolted... the solution i\'m after is a simple text at, say 20:00 every day IF a certain zone is open (the garage doors).
Is this possible with comfort? it seems oh so simple but i can\'t seem to manage it.
- hendy - 08-17-2011
You can use the Time Program feature; set it to be triggered everyday at 20:00 and put a time program response to check the garage door and trigger an alarm if the garage door is currently open.
That alarm in turns shall be programmed to send a text to you.
See the attached configuration file.
I use Time Program number 5.
And I\'ve modified the alarm number 14 to become \'GarageDoorOpen\' alarm; you can see this under Security Type Settings >> Alarm Types.
This alarm is programmed to text to phone number 3 (assuming the phone no. 3 is the SMS number).
So if the garage door is still open at 20:00 it will send a text like this:
0000 - Garage Door Open - 00
- boltz - 08-17-2011
Excellent i shall give it a try tonight!
Thanks
Adam
- Ingo - 08-17-2011
I\'ve done something slightly different. I have a CBus installation and I have a spare switch on my Neo keypad in my kitchen.
What I\'ve done is in Cbus created a 1 second On|Off pulse and assigned it to the switch\'s LED. Whenever the garage door/zone is open then this LED flashes so it immediately attracts my attention. This way if the garage door is open I will see a flashing LED on my CBus Neo keypad.
Ingo
- boltz - 09-26-2011
Hi, did this, it worked and is great, the downside is for each \"check\" i want to make i have to define an alarm type to get the zonename in the text.
Is there any \"variable\" that cen be used so the zonename is pushed through from the response?
- ident - 09-26-2011
You can actually use the same alarm type with different zones
The zone name is automaticallly transmitted in the text message
- boltz - 09-26-2011
hmm, not so for me so i must be doing something wrong, instead, if i renamed the alarm zone to \"SMSCheck\" i then got a text saying My house - SMSCHeck Notify - 00
- ident - 09-26-2011
Have you mixed up alarm types and zones?
The SMS message has the format
Alaphanumeric ID - Alarm Type - Zone Name
My house - SMSCHeck Notify - 00
SMSCheckNotify would be the alarm type, not the zone name
The zone name should be the last field
What firmware are you on
I suggest you upgrade to the latest UCM/GSM at https://www.cytech.biz/firmware.html for GSM and Comfort Ultra
- boltz - 09-26-2011
Hi, I\'m on latest 6.xxx revs on all modules on this system as needed for zones above 64..
- ident - 09-26-2011
OK, Check the names of alarms and zones acording to what I described
The zone type of the zone should be assigned to the new common alarm type
If you have different zones assigned to this zone type then each zone will trigger the alarm which will send text with its zone name