ghaynes27 Posted December 12, 2018 Posted December 12, 2018 One of my Insteon leak sensors detected water last night (2:30am) while I was sleeping and since i use DND (Do Not Disturb) on my iPhone I never got an audible notification. Now I have a basement full of water due to a shoddy contractor that damaged a water line. Currently I have an ISY program thats sends a push notification to Pushover with a priority set to 1 (High Priority). At the moment there seems to be no way to make a specific app bypass the DND settings on the phone to alert me. I need to think of a creative way to be woken up in case this ever happens again. I could try using an auto dialer since I believe there is a setting to allow specific numbers to bypass DND but I don't see an easy way to do this and one that would be free. Now I do have an echo dot right next to me that I would love to see if I can send a notification or alarm to Alexa to wake me if my leak sensor detects water. Is there a way to do this? Are there other ways that I am missing?
ghaynes27 Posted December 12, 2018 Author Posted December 12, 2018 I was looking into routines but seems they only support devices and my leak sensors don't show up in my device list probably because they are battery operated so I am still searching for ways to make this possible.
dbuss Posted December 12, 2018 Posted December 12, 2018 1 hour ago, ghaynes27 said: I was looking into routines but seems they only support devices and my leak sensors don't show up in my device list probably because they are battery operated so I am still searching for ways to make this possible. You should be able to use routines to accomplish what you want to. Have you read through this?
KSchex Posted December 12, 2018 Posted December 12, 2018 2 hours ago, ghaynes27 said: One of my Insteon leak sensors detected water last night (2:30am) while I was sleeping and since i use DND (Do Not Disturb) on my iPhone I never got an audible notification. Now I have a basement full of water due to a shoddy contractor that damaged a water line. Currently I have an ISY program thats sends a push notification to Pushover with a priority set to 1 (High Priority). At the moment there seems to be no way to make a specific app bypass the DND settings on the phone to alert me. I need to think of a creative way to be woken up in case this ever happens again. I could try using an auto dialer since I believe there is a setting to allow specific numbers to bypass DND but I don't see an easy way to do this and one that would be free. Now I do have an echo dot right next to me that I would love to see if I can send a notification or alarm to Alexa to wake me if my leak sensor detects water. Is there a way to do this? Are there other ways that I am missing? I do not think I would rely on the internet or a cell network to give you a local leak/flooding alarm within your house. Consider an Insteon siren.
dbuss Posted December 12, 2018 Posted December 12, 2018 21 minutes ago, KSchex said: I do not think I would rely on the internet or a cell network to give you a local leak/flooding alarm within your house. Consider an Insteon siren. I agree, an Insteon siren or Z-Wave siren if your ISY has Zwave most likely would provide a higher level of reliability. You could also use both, a siren and a routine.
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