Enviromental Alarm trigger

[Lezcarr]

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Proposal

Would be good to have an alternative, so it can triggering a different message/alarm

Additional info

[some example of how the new functionality should look like]

[liorfranko]

+1

[erkr]

+1(0 😉)

[stonegray]

I'm using Noonlight for monitoring which supports water and smoke. I'm interested in maybe adding this. I'd propose we do the following:

• Extend the device type fields to include specific (eg. smoke, water, fire, CO, maybe panic while we're at it)
• Add a new Mode called "Always" to allow keeping the devices armed all the time; we can use the existing arm/disarm logic to allow temporarly disarming it for maintenance.
• Add a new Condition in the Actions pane to only fire an action if the type matches

[erkr]

@stonegray
I like your proposal. At this moment always on is set implicitly. Option only exposed by the device types (smoke, water etc). Making it an additional setting for all devices , on by default for environment types, would be better.

I have a use case for that: windows that shall remain closed and emergency doors. I can only make them always on changing them into environmental sensors like smoke or water types are by default 🥹

[skaggerik]

Different actions and notifications for tamper, flood, fire etc would be nice.

[ploeffler]

due to the fact, that "windspeed is too high" is well as "rainrate is too high" are no supported deviceclasses, I tried to keep them as "problem". they would trigger the alarm, but when they get into normal state, the alarm stays triggered.

so maybe supporting the "problem" class would be a good idea for environmental sensors

[skaggerik]

This could do well with adding devices, instead of sensors. So that tamper and battery could be included with the alarm sensor itself. Result could be an elegant solution for different notifications and actions depending on tampering etc, without using areas.

[skaggerik]

I use the Ring Keypad, different types of alarms could for example be used for triggering different types of siren sounds/lights on the keypad itself.

[skaggerik]

@nielsfaber regarding #248 and this issue. Perhaps Alarmo could create three services. The calling of which could generate police/burglar, medical and fire alarms. A nice solution to this issue (896) could elegantly be combined with panic button support.

Notifications should also, according to me not only include the tripped sensor and state, but also if the type of alarm is burglar/police, fire, or medical.

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[erkr]

Still very interested 😀