Make audio alert on iPhone from Smart Home Monitor

SmartApps & Automations
#1

Hi,

I’ve got an iPhone, and I’m trying to setup an alert so if a sensor opens in the middle of the night, my phone will make an extended noise. Not play a speaker or siren, just my phone specifically and do something besides the generic notification beep which can be silenced at night.

I was looking for this functionality in Smart Home Monitor, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to alert a user besides the generic push notification, and there’s no way to send a text???

Instead, it seems you have to setup an automation where the result of an If-Then would be to send a text message, and setup on the iPhone the alert noise specific to that sender.

Is there a better way? Because if so, I still don’t see how to use an Automation for something like… If (Armed status is Away/Stay, AND sensor 1 goes open AND sensor2 goes open). That doesn’t seem like And is the right operator and it should be something like (Alarm is Away/Stay) AND (sensor 1 goes open OR sensor 2 goes open OR …) but that level of And/Or work doesn’t seem configurable short of web core.

What’s the right way to do this, presuming I’m missing something?

#2

You don’t need a separate automation. You can send a text message from the “Set Response” section of STHM.

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#3

just in case… sms messages are only available in the U.S.

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#4

Thank you and thank you for the fast response. Sorry for the stupid Q but Where is the Set response section in STHM? I went into the STHM (House) app and clicked the gear icon on the top right giving me security smoke leaks. I went to the Smartthings Gear icon and found notifications, but nothing about set response. Where is it?

#5

The UI isn’t very intuitive. Tap the bar that says “Security”.

#7

I’ll delete this post if I can as I don’t want it to add to the noise. The comment you made in the other forum, about how I should delete STHM and re-install it, was the solution to the above too. Before clicking Security didn’t do anything. No options were presented. But now, the missing sensors showed up and I can get to those menus. Thank you again - great suggestion - I don’t think I would have ever thought to try that.

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#8

Yeah I read that too. Thank you for sharing, it’s a weird approach and hopefully fixed soon.

#9

Just to throw in another option… Easily done with webcore.

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