This SmartApp monitors rooms where kids/elderly are sleeping while ALL parents aren’t at home. The parents will get notifications (SMS or Push) if there is motion in any of the configured rooms while they are away from home.
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If the parents are away, and the kids are sleeping, isn’t this a violation of most US States Laws? Should this not send an alert to the local authorities that you left the kids unattended with no adult supervision? Unless this is for situations where there’s a babysitter or someone else watching the kids?
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Yeah I guess you could set it up to send a SMS to your local authority if you’d like.
Bottom line like you said, it notifies you when there’s movement when the “designated” person is not at home.
Depends on the age of the kids, and laws vary by state. But last I looked there were only three states that had an actual law on this, and in one of them the kids just had to be age 8 and up.
Yep, I assumed this applied to all states, being in Illinois, the law is no child under the age of 14 can be left alone.
I’d still highly advise against it, just sounds like horrible parenting, especially to involve Home Automation into leaving children home alone sleeping.
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Actually I disagree, it’s one step safer to use this as a backup to ensure that the baby sitter or adult or whoever’s supposed to be looking after the child is there.
Flip side, there are better use cases to consider. My spouse uses this a LOT, she loves to take early morning walks but wants to head back when the kids start to wake up. And yeah I’m in my room deep in slumber catching up from pulling all nighter on SmartThings
Well, the “kids” could be 16 and 17, parents out to the theatre, kids supposed to be asleep by midnight, parents expect to be home by 130.
Or the kids are one 10 year-old and one 16 year-old, the young one has poison ivy and they’ve run out of calamine lotion and the mom has run out to the grocery store to pick some up.
It could also be used for a wellness check on a senior relative to get an alert if they’re getting up in the night.
Like many things, I think it just depends on how it’s used. It’s not bad in and of itself.