Can I have different notification sounds for different events?

[debennett2 (Dan Bennett)]

Right now, if someone knocks on my front door, opens it, closes it, I have a doorbell sound that plays on my phone. I’d much rather KNOW which is happening without looking. Is there a decent workaround to make this happen. If so, I hope it not to be internet-dependent as I would like the least lag possible.

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks!

[Keo (Joe)]

Can you explain how you are triggering the sound on your phone? That in itself should have internet dependancies as the notification has to be set from smartThings to your phone.

The forum has quite a few examples on how to accomplish this:
iPhone:

Custom Alert/Push notification sound

The Pushover App (https://pushover.net) is an example of alert sounds that are unique to them available in its settings on iOS so it is doable. You can even set a default sound and a High Priority Sound. It also has a pretty good API for building custom alerts and push notifications as well as a DND option and much more! Oh and there is also a desktop option and a plugin to use growl on a mac. I use it for the notifications (via IFTTT) to get the ones only I want to have rather than them all go through the SmartThings App as my wife (yes still working on the WAF) and other family members don’t want to get as many notifications as I do from the system. The latency issue in IFTTT doesn’t seem to be an issue when using a recipe for this as I think ST pushes the information pretty quickly to…

Android: you can use an app called tasker.