Text Notifications for sensors?

SmartApps & Automations Automation Ideas
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Hi, I opened the door to my garage and the garage door was open. Holy cow. Thankfully no dogs or cats ran around me to get out. So…I took a SmartThings motion sensor out of another room and put it out there and tested it. Works. I then set the wall opener to “lock” and tested that, which means remotes won’t work. But that is NOT the long term solution as when I leave, I can’t lock it. I set notifications for that to ON and that’s fairly USELESS as unless I happen to see it on my phone, I won’t know if it’s opened again. I want TEXT MESSAGES so I get DINGED.

If not, I’ll have to look into an alternative that has notifications that an action has to be taken for them to disappear.

Any ideas?! Thank you, Vicci

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What country are you in? The text message options do vary from region to region.

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just curious… what garage door opener do you have… brand/model?

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United States and if there is an option, I can’t find it. And I’m a nerd.
Vicci

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Liftmaster 3255. I think someone in the 'hood has an opener that now matches this. I’m going to have to have the opener connected to a switch I can turn off; maybe need to buy one that can only be opened with an app or the keypad. Sigh.

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Write a routine. In the “Then” section chose notify someone and then chose text message.

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Hi, I have an automated one setup to the Motion detection notifications; which is the one that isn’t going to really do much for me. Do I disable this to do the other?
As an aside, I renamed it to garage door test vs. dining room and there is a disconnect as the old name is in the list but the new name is in the routine. Is there a time I have to wait to sync something?

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You can have both notifications.

When I don’t want to miss a notification l will do a push notification, a text message to my cell number and a text message to my Google Voice number.

I think the device names should sync given some time.

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I’ve worked on this but the Save after the action and the then is still gray and I cannot save my work. Sigh.