Hi all,
I've new to home automation (but have a technical background) and recently picked up a hometroller specifically because I was interested in ditching my expensive alarm monitoring. At this point I've hooked up my ZeeS2, AD2USB, installed and configured the plugin, and hit a few bumps along the way (mostly educating myself on the panel programming) but have it all setup and working. I'm quite impressed with the setup and plugin capability and recently created events to text/email me when the Vista 20p is armed, disarmed, burglar & fire alarm triggers - the basics the monitoring company gets now. I've read a few posts of some who have more advanced setups and event triggers too, but I only found a couple.
Which brings me to my question - what does everyone else in the community find as a useful event/trigger that newbies like me might consider. I'm looking for additional events I might want emailed/texted to me, or maybe something more elaborate, like when my back door entry delay starts, the kitchen lights come on and a welcoming beer is auto-ejected from the fridge.
Thanks for the responses.
I've new to home automation (but have a technical background) and recently picked up a hometroller specifically because I was interested in ditching my expensive alarm monitoring. At this point I've hooked up my ZeeS2, AD2USB, installed and configured the plugin, and hit a few bumps along the way (mostly educating myself on the panel programming) but have it all setup and working. I'm quite impressed with the setup and plugin capability and recently created events to text/email me when the Vista 20p is armed, disarmed, burglar & fire alarm triggers - the basics the monitoring company gets now. I've read a few posts of some who have more advanced setups and event triggers too, but I only found a couple.
Which brings me to my question - what does everyone else in the community find as a useful event/trigger that newbies like me might consider. I'm looking for additional events I might want emailed/texted to me, or maybe something more elaborate, like when my back door entry delay starts, the kitchen lights come on and a welcoming beer is auto-ejected from the fridge.
Thanks for the responses.
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