Pushing Notifications multiple times + SMS to possibly save lives

[JDRoberts]

I should also say that there have been both official smart things monitoring features and community built monitoring features in the past, but pretty much everyone has abandoned it and moved on to a more reliable system after a few months.

Here’s a typical discussion thread from the past.

I have been given a project (medical wellness check)

This kind of project is typically called a “wellness check.” You’ll find quite a few similar projects in the forums. At one point there was a community member who worked with the VA who came up with a number of really interesting ways to monitor whether someone in a house Was going through their daily routine. One of the absolute simplest is just put a sensor on the refrigerator. Some other options are pressure mats in the bedroom to make sure someone has gotten out of bed, a contact sensor on a drawer where daily medicine is kept to make sure the drawer has been opened, all kinds of things. I’ll put links to some of those projects in a minute. The baseline question: what reliability do you expect? All of that said, as a medically fragile person myself at the present tim…

But again, a year later hardly anyone was still using their smartthings – based solution for this use case.

I think @rboy had a smartapp for this in his paywall library: but I don’t know if it works with the current architecture and I don’t know if there any plans to transition it to the new architecture, and I don’t know if he even still offers it.