erwenger:
Tried to write a piston that is essentially a pulse of my system. And when a device doesn’t respond, I want a txt message or app notification. But I’m having no luck. Any ideas? If anyone has this in core or webcore, pls share! Thx
Simple device viewer is a smartapp that does this very well. So you might want to take a look at that. In particular notice that he is not polling the individual devices, which would have the potential to crater your system. Instead he is looking at the most recent log entries for each device. It’s a very popular smartapp for good reason.
I won’t be porting this SmartApp so it will stop working when the Groovy platform is retired.
Allows you to easily see a list of information about your devices like battery percentages, temperatures, how long since last event, switch state, etc.
Receive Push and/or SMS notifications based on temperature, battery level, and/or time since last event.
New Dashboard Feature allows you to view all your device information using any web browser. See the Version 2.0 Release Notes for more information.
It can automatically poll the devices at a specified interval.
Turn Off All Lights and/or Switches with a push of a button.
The first time you open the application, I recommend hitting Done as soon as you see the Setup screen because if you back out of the app instead of hitting Done, the app…
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