Notification for offline device status

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Hi,
Smartthings App shows me when a device goes offline on the Favourites screen with a little icon on the very top of the screen (along with Home Monitor, temperature, etc)
Is there a way to get a notification on my smartphone for this instead to having to open the App to see a device went offline?

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Do you use SharpTools? If so, you can do it with a rule run at regular intervals:

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Thanks @Bry
I have use sharptools a little bit before. I wish they offered a little more details on how to for this one. It looks like

  1. Run a timer on regular interval
  2. Use http action to get offline status
  3. Parse the information somehow
  4. Send notification for offline devices

Requires getting a token from smartthings.
Also required a premium subscription of sharptools…
I presume something similar could be done with node-red?

All in all a little dissapointed have to jump through hoops (pay?) to get something simple done

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If you search the Sharptools community there are posts on how to loop for interval execution

There is no free lunch

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Thanks, for clarity, I am not complaining that sharptools cost. I know they have some free stuff and I have some simple scripts - grateful for that. They need to keep their business going so have to charge for some services.
I find it problematic that SmartThings App itself does not have the ability to do this (notify when a device goes offline) natively.

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I agree. The fact they have it on the favourite page now, leads me to believe this should be a simple process to implement this as a notification to your phone.

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