Using an open/close sensor to send notice if open at time X

[JDRoberts]

@ckkris

Mfrary , Were you able to do the garage door monitoring based on Sensor status ?
I am looking for the same setup to notify me if I forget to close my garage door .
Any help is appreciated .

Thanks

If you check upthread you’ll see that a couple of different methods were suggested for doing this. They all work, just depends on what your own preferences are.

The most flexible will be core:

FAQ: What is WebCoRE? (And what was CoRE?)

CoRE (now WebCore) is a very powerful community – created rules engine for SmartThings. It allows you to set up stacked conditionals like “If A then B but only while C and not if D.” Setting it up can be quite complex, but there are many community members who will be glad to help you. For example, here is a piston that one member created to notify him if the dog had already been fed twice that day and he picked up the dog bowl for a third time. He needed this because he has a large family and people didn’t always remember whose turn it was to feed the dog. [image] The original version of CoRE Has now been replaced by a new version, WebCoRE, which moves the data entry to a web interface. This allows for flexibility and an architecture that requires more memory than is av…

But many people would just be able to use a custom alert in smart home monitor, which is much easier to set up.

https://support.smartthings.com/hc/en-us/articles/206370273-How-to-create-alerts-with-Smart-Home-Monitor

I have mine set up to alert me if the linen closet is kept open for more than two minutes, because that’s where we have cleaning supplies that I don’t want the dog to get into.