Remote Audio Notification

[smokegrub]

I have a second home located 325 miles from my primary residence. The doors to that residence all have Hidden Door Sensors which send an email if a door is opened. Water is supplied from a well pump and that is also configured to send an email both when it runs and when it turns off. Finally, there are Insteon cameras which send photos by email if motion is detected. All this is great, but it doesn't serve me well while I am sleeping. I have a BuzzLinc in my primary residence and it alerts me if a door is opened or motion is detected at night. I have been assessing comments on the new 2867-222 to see if it might be useful. All this takes me to my question of you experts. Is there now or will there be in the near future a way to have a signal sent from our second home to the primary residence which would activate a BuzzLinc or a 2867-222? If so, that would meet a very significant need.

 

Primary Residence - ISY 994i IR Pro

Secondary Residence - ISY 994i

[KMan]

If you have the Network Module for your secondary residence, it can notify the ISY in the primary residence to do any notification you want.

[smokegrub]

I don't have that module but would be willing to invest in it. Procedurally, how complex would it be to send a command from the secondary residence to a BuzzLinc or 2867-222 at the primary residence when an event (door open, etc) occurs at the secondary residence?

[KMan]

To be clear, doing it this way the secondary ISY would talk to the primary ISY, which would then talk to the BuzzLinc or 2867-2222.  The secondary ISY doesn't communicate directly with the insteon devices in the primary residence.

 

If you already have enabled internet access (or have the ISY portal) on the primay residence ISY, it is pretty straightforward.

 

Steps:

1. On the primary ISY, create a program that does whatever you need it to do (trigger buzzlink for example).  Set this program to disabled.
2. On the secondary ISY, create a Network resource that points to the primary ISY IP address.  Use the rest api (documented here) to have the URL run the program created in #1 (use the program ID).  Here is an example of a rest URL that uses the ISY portal to run the then clause of program ID 004D: 
   • https://<user>:<pass>@my.isy.io/isy/<portal key>/rest/programs/004D/runThen
3. On the secondary ISY, create a program that detects the condition and triggers the network resource.

 

 

[smokegrub]

Thanks. I copied your instructions. I will have to do some research since I am unfamiliar with "network resource", "rest" and the ISY portal.

[smokegrub]

After doing a bit of research this appears to be "out of my league". I will wait until, hopefully, something comes along that does not require such a learning curve.

[kohai]

After doing a bit of research this appears to be "out of my league". I will wait until, hopefully, something comes along that does not require such a learning curve.

 

It's not as intimidating as it seems.  I'm sure someone here would walk you through it.

[KeviNH]

 The doors to that residence all have Hidden Door Sensors which send an email if a door is opened.

. . .All this is great, but it doesn't serve me well while I am sleeping. I have a BuzzLinc in my primary residence and it alerts me if a door is opened or motion is detected at night.

 

I would use  SMS notifications (or if you don't mind the extra delay, regular email).   This is easy to set up, and notification is useful for other purposes as well.   If you use email, you could register a new gmail account to send the notifications to and from, and add this as an email account on your phone.

1. Configure the ISY at the second home with a notification.
2. Create a program that sends the notification for events at night where a door is opened or motion is detected.
3. Make a contact for the ISY on your phone, with a custom message alert tone. 
4. Add this contact to "Favorites", so the message alert should play even when "Do Not Disturb" is set.

I get a little fancier, my notification program condition includes a counter variable, so after a few notifications are sent, the low-risk motion detection stops sending (there's another program that resets the count to zero at dawn).   This way I'm not woken up constantly by one bad sensor.

[MWareman]

I use my Android phone with Tasker, and ISY's networking module to send Autoremote messages.

 

One example is when my doorbell is pushed, it sends a doorbell event to my phone with plays a doorbell sound (thru the phones Alarm audio channel so it makes the sound even in quiet mode).

 

Another, when the garage door is left open ISY sends a door left open trigger, and the phone (via Tasker) uses text to speech to announce that the door was left open.

 

It's very flexible - and works well for me.

[smokegrub]

These look promising and within the range of my abilities. Thanks.

[Blackbird]

I also use Tasker and Pushover app for android. When I have a motion sensor turn on, it sends an email to pushover then tasker recognizes the message "motion" from pushover then tasker plays an mp3 of the motion tracker on the movie aliens. I have the same idea for doors and when there is water in the basement it plays a sonar ping. This happens within 2 seconds of the sensor being activated.

[MWareman]

I also use Tasker and Pushover app for android. When I have a motion sensor turn on, it sends an email to pushover then tasker recognizes the message "motion" from pushover then tasker plays an mp3 of the motion tracker on the movie aliens. I have the same idea for doors and when there is water in the basement it plays a sonar ping. This happens within 2 seconds of the sensor being activated.

2 seconds for email activation is pretty impressive. When I tried email the delay was more like 5-8 seconds.

 

I'm now using the network module and using the Pushover API (for human targeted notifications) and Autoremote (for Tasker parsed notifications). Both result in delivery times less than 1 second generally.

[Blackbird]

most of the time it is instant