Holy cow, things went haywire tonight… Smoke alarm sounded (not nearly enough smoke from cooking to have set it off, but I guess I'm just used to having had no detectors for 5 years!) which was fine… The kitchen one and the nearby hallway one I can reach with my stepstool to silence.
First I received 'all clear' - that was unexpected, and breaks my alerting since I got a 'no worries, issue resolved' right off the bat…
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Feb 22, 2014 7:38:31 PM
Received INSTEON "Smoke Bridge" on (all alerts clear)
Trigger Smoke Alarms - All Clear
Google Voice SMS Sending 'Smoke/CO Alarms - All Clear' to nnnnnnnnnn
Received INSTEON "Smoke Bridge" on (smoke detected)
Trigger Smoke Alarms - Smoke
Action Group Emergency - Full On
I got 3 alerts for the smoke alarm coming on. The first 2 made sense (kitchen and hall were close enough), the 3rd… I don't know, maybe the guest bedroom was sensitive enough to pick it up.
So that temporarily flooded the insteon network, because I trigger on smoke alarm to turn every single light in the house on. It also resulted in 3 text messages (google voice plugin).
Not that big of a deal, but then… The 'all clears' started.
I pressed the 'silence' button on 2 detectors, and I'd turned the exhaust fans to 'high'
(which I think I'll add to my fire emergency response action) somehow that resulted in 25 'all clears'.
That resulted in an attempt at 50 sms messages (25x 2 numbers) and getting throttled by Google (it accepted the 16 per number by the end… and it wasn't the first 16 then blocking, it was random, so it must have been a throttle not a hard limit).
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Received INSTEON "Smoke Bridge" on (all alerts clear)
Trigger Smoke Alarms - All Clear
Google Voice SMS Sending 'Smoke/CO Alarms - All Clear' to 1111111111
Google Voice SMS Unable to send message.
Google Voice SMS Sending 'Smoke/CO Alarms - All Clear' to 2222222222
Google Voice SMS Message sent successfully.
Received INSTEON "Smoke Bridge" on (all alerts clear)
Trigger Smoke Alarms - All Clear
Google Voice SMS Sending 'Smoke/CO Alarms - All Clear' to 1111111111
Google Voice SMS Message sent successfully.
Google Voice SMS Sending 'Smoke/CO Alarms - All Clear' to 2222222222
Received INSTEON "Smoke Bridge" on (all alerts clear)
Trigger Smoke Alarms - All Clear
Google Voice SMS Message sent successfully.
Google Voice SMS Sending 'Smoke/CO Alarms - All Clear' to 1111111111
Google Voice SMS Message sent successfully.
This is 'less than optimal' behavior