Ring Colour is White

hello so i am trying to create a trigger that when the device

(Nest Protect) ring color is not green
condition is Dark
send me an email
it works but i get many emails when i wander underneath the Protect and the ring turns on the night light. i just want one email.

any advice.

BTW: just installed 4 protects in my office it was very nice that all are added to indigo without me doing anything

hello so i am trying to create a trigger that when the device

(Nest Protect) ring color is not green
condition is Dark
send me an email
it works but i get many emails when i wander underneath the Protect and the ring turns on the night light. i just want one email.

any advice.

BTW: just installed 4 protects in my office it was very nice that all are added to indigo without me doing anything

I didn't know that worked... Wow... It's a feature request that I've had from a few people to know when the Pathlight comes on... I must trial that

But back to your question... Let me run through what I think you're asking.

If it's dark (some light or time trigger not on the protect)

And the light doesn't flash Green (everything ok) but Yellow (problems)

Send an email

Don't send another email that night and ignore Pathlights flashes

Reset when day again for the following night

Repeat each night

Is that the use case?

There are a couple of ways you could do that but let me test them first...

Thanks for highlighting the Pathlight Trigger! ... Hmmmmm

Mike

hello so i am trying to create a trigger that when the device

(Nest Protect) ring color is not green
condition is Dark
send me an email
it works but i get many emails when i wander underneath the Protect and the ring turns on the night light. i just want one email.

any advice.

BTW: just installed 4 protects in my office it was very nice that all are added to indigo without me doing anything

If I've understood the question this is how I would probably go about it:

Set up a variable called NESTemailsent in indigo with a default value of false

Create a trigger called NEST Light at Night with the following set up:

Set the trigger to look for any change in the Ring Colour





New Trigger for NEST Light

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Now set the Conditions as. 1. Must be dark 2. Ring Colour is equal to Red or Yellow (it may need to be yellow or red as I'm not sure if it's case sensitive)





Conditions for Trigger

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To add multiple conditions like this you'll have to press and hold the 'option' key until the '+' changes to an ellipsis '...'. Look in the Indigo documentation on Conditions for how to do this if you're not sure.

Now add the Actions to send an email:





Sending an email

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and set the email flag to true:





Set the variable flag

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That way, because of the NESTemailsent flag it will only send the one email

You'll also need to have a trigger to detect when it's light and reset the variable NESTemailsent back to false that runs each morning. I already have a Wake Up House trigger that does a number of these Housekeeping tasks in the morning when I get up

Hope that helps - I'll think if there's anyway the plugin could make this easier over the next day or so.

Regards

Mike

thanks i will check and play tomorrow
what i want to happen is every time the pathlight becomes white send me 1 email. (like a motion sensor mode)
but your conditions have give me some ideas.