I have a piston that sends me an SMS message when one of ten doors open. I don’t know which door is opening, since I cannot get variables to pass to the SMS alert. So all I get is “A Door has been opened” If you know how to pass variables to an SMS message that solves my issue.
That said, I need to copy my Piston so that I have ten of them, one for each door. Is there an easy way to copy a piston, then I can just change the trigger and the SMS message for each of the doors.
Thanks, Scott
Pass the variable $currentEventDevice to the SMS, that would be the door that triggered the event.
I typed in A door has been opened $currentEventDevice and got that texted to me.
Do I have to enclose in some kind of brackets, like {$currentEventDevice}
When I do that, it comes back with A door has been opened time
When I press the Simulate button
Enclose in curly brackets if you’re using a value field. Pressing test will not give you the expected result, you can create a virtual contact device and use that in your pistonfor testing, or simply open one of the doors if accessible.
Thank you so much for the help. Works like a champ!