How do I check on contacts and sensors

[alsontak (AT)]

I recently got the tilt sensor from monoprice which is used to trigger thr garage door open/close.

Is there anyway I can have ST check the status of the “contact” every hour between 9pm and 5am OR when the system goes to night and away mode (when we leave the house)?

I did read there is a smartapp under the energy section, but that only has a trigger X hours after its opened or closed… So hoping there is an app that can be used to poll the sensors.

[JDRoberts]

There are several ways to do this, but at this point, the most straightforward will be to use core because you have stacked conditionals. ( this is a clickable link)

FAQ: What is WebCoRE? (And what was CoRE?)

CoRE (now WebCore) is a very powerful community – created rules engine for SmartThings. It allows you to set up stacked conditionals like “If A then B but only while C and not if D.” Setting it up can be quite complex, but there are many community members who will be glad to help you. For example, here is a piston that one member created to notify him if the dog had already been fed twice that day and he picked up the dog bowl for a third time. He needed this because he has a large family and people didn’t always remember whose turn it was to feed the dog. [image] The original version of CoRE Has now been replaced by a new version, WebCoRE, which moves the data entry to a web interface. This allows for flexibility and an architecture that requires more memory than is av…

[alsontak (AT)]

Cool. Didn’t know this existed. But will read up on it.
Thanks!