ISY as parent monitor.

[Algorithm]

Hello All,

 

Here's a novel idea which may be of interest to some of you. I was talking with a potential ISY user who's intended purpose was to in install the ISY in his elderly mother's INSTEON-equipped home. Then, instead of frequent calls to check on her, which always have the possibility of waking her or otherwise disturbing her, he could remotely login to ISY and check the logs/program summary to see if there had been recent activity, whether certain lights had been manually operated, and so forth.

 

This would let him know whether she had been active, without disturbing her. She has a medic/emergency alert system, and the ISY is in no way intended to replace it, but only to supplement it for the son's peace of mind. I won't post his name, but if the idea's author is reading this, please do feel free to post and claim credit for a very original idea.

[Guest]

Hello All,

 

Here's a novel idea which may be of interest to some of you. I was talking with a potential ISY user who's intended purpose was to in install the ISY in his elderly mother's INSTEON-equipped home. Then, instead of frequent calls to check on her, which always have the possibility of waking her or otherwise disturbing her, he could remotely login to ISY and check the logs/program summary to see if there had been recent activity, whether certain lights had been manually operated, and so forth.

 

This would let him know whether she had been active, without disturbing her. She has a medic/emergency alert system, and the ISY is in no way intended to replace it, but only to supplement it for the son's peace of mind. I won't post his name, but if the idea's author is reading this, please do feel free to post and claim credit for a very original idea.

 

Is it possible to write a program in the ISY that if certian lights are "NOT" turned on in a certian time period to send an email?

 

Many alarm panels can do that with motion detectors (if a motion is not tripped between 8 am and 4 pm send an email).

[Algorithm]

Is it possible to write a program in the ISY that if certian lights are "NOT" turned on in a certian time period to send an email?

 

Hello Digger,

 

Yes! And that was also part of what he mentioned--receiving notifications when certain actions did/did not occur. I forgot that part--thanks so much for reminding me!

[Chris Jahn]

Is it possible to write a program in the ISY that if certian lights are "NOT" turned on in a certian time period to send an email?

 

As Darrell mentioned, using the ISY in this way should never be considered as a replacement of a medic/emergency alert system, but instead only to supplement it for the son's peace of mind.

 

Having said that, the safest way to use it would for it to be proactive, basically, sending a notification when things are fine. By doing it this way, the abscence of a notification indicates there is something wrong (or a false alarm because the ISY couldn't send the notification for some reason).

 

To answer your question, yes, you can have a program X listen for certain controls in the house, and have program Y run based on the last run time of program X + some amount of time.