I only want a simple program to send out a text Notification when our greenhouse air temperature goes over 95F, and also have it report that value.

I can't figure out which Condition or Action to use in the Then section.

I have a line "$i.Greenhouse_T = 'ZY 005 Greenhouse Air' Temperature °F" from Action > Variable. This should work.

The Notification Body has The Greenhouse is ${var.1.2}

I had the Notification working fine with it only notifying me that the temp was over 95F.

Now with the variable line above added, it doesn't work at all. Even forcing it with Run Then doesn't work.

Any ideas??

The EISY/POLISY can only send email notifications. The carriers no longer support email to text notifications

Post a copy of your program

Here's the program.

And the texts that I get from it. The last one is when I tried to add a Variable.

Then I tried actually setting a Variable to the greenhouse temp.

After that, no more texts.

You're setting the variable after you send your message. Move the variable line up before sending the notification.

What are the contents of "Z-wave T Hot". You should be sending the "$i.Greenhouse_T" which is your temperature

17 hours ago, Techman said:

The EISY/POLISY can only send email notifications. The carriers no longer support email to text notifications

Post a copy of your program

Verizon still allows email to text notifications. However, every once in awhile (about twice a year), they do get wonky for a about a week or so.

@RLandsborough is setting a variable even needed? I guess that Z-wave would be able to use the temp as an address node. Just have your program text you when temp exceeds 95° and include the temp from the device itself. I know with YoLink sensors I can copy the temp variable from the plugin and just use that.

Example:

At ${sys.time12} the Greenhouse Air was ${sys.node.n008_8b4c01xxxx89r80.CLITEMP}.

This would be my simple suggestion not to add the step of the variable unless you're using it elsewhere. Also, know that this will trigger an alert every time the temp bounces over 95°. You might want to trigger a cooldown as sending text via email has been considered spam and could cause the sending service to be seen/reported/labeled as a spammer.

I would suggest NOT using the UD default mail server for this as not only are cell companies trying to limit email to text, using the UD default server could have a negative impact on other users if you have a lot of texts sent. The current suggested way to send notifications is using the notifications plugin and UD Mobile or another notification app (i.e. Pushover). With Pushover you can setup critical alerts that you could receive even if the phone is in a do not disturb state.

Lastly, when posting programs to the forum please right click the program and select "Copy to Clipboard", then paste the text into the thread (be sure you use the COPY option). That makes it easier for people to help edit the program. Posting a screenshot means a lot of typing and explaining which could be easier with a copy/paste.

Google voice allows email to text, but it is slightly tricky to set it up, but once set up it works perfectly every time.

You need to enable google voice to send a copy of all your texts to your email. First thing is to receive a text from the phone number you want to send texts to. This could be you sending a text to yourself. Then copy the from address in that email copy of the text and put that as the to address in ISY. That address defines for google voice where to send it, both the phone number and the text thread. Of note, the email account that ISY sends emails must be the same one you have google voice copy texts to.

It follows this format

<yourphonenumber>.<thetophonenumber>.<stringofnumber/lettersthatidentifythethread>@txt.voice.google.com

I sent myself a text to get the thread going so the two phone numbers in my case are the same. I set this up this many many years ago and the thread still keeps going. If you want to send the text to someone else, you would need them to send you a text or reply to a text from you to get that email address format I showed above..