Send Email Once Power Restored

[ryanbmsu]

Can anyone suggest a way to accomplish this? The power is out at my house. I am away and would like to know when exactly the power is restored. My HS2 box will power up as soon as it has power.

Is there an easy way to tell Homeseer to send an email upon initial start-up? I appreciate any suggestions.

[Rupp]

Is your HS Server on a UPS?

[rmasonjr]

Add this to your startup scrupt:

hs.sendEmail "xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.com","xxxxxxxxxr@xxx.net","HomeSeer Startup","HomeSeer has started up."

This sends me an email anytime HS starts up - including after power restoration.

[Moskus]

This should work:

Add this line to the startup.txt, say right above the "End Sub" line.

hs.SendMail "your@adress.com", "server@yourservermail.no", "HomeSeer powered on", "HomeSeer was just started. FYI."

Edit: Too late...

[Rupp]

If you have a UPS you could use one of the free UPS plugins and make this a "little smarter" by having the UPB plugin send the email rather than sending it everytime HomeSeer starts up.

[ryanbmsu]

Thanks everyone. I will give those a try. My UPS died a few months ago. I need to replace the batteries. I'll try the startup script edit first and once I get the UPS back up, I'll give that a try too.

Appreciate the help!

[jon00]

I'll try the startup script edit first

Just remember that this will send an email every time you start Homeseer!

[ryanbmsu]

Yep, I don't often restart the system. Certainly not as much as you pros do. HS runs without issue and that's what I need. I wish I had more time (and devices) to play around more.

[Moskus]

Certainly not as much as you pros do.

Real pros seldom restart.

[wpiman]

What's a restart?

[ryanbmsu]

Error message

So I tried editing the startup script. Here is the error I received. I have not done any editing of scripts before so I am clueless as to what corrections to make. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

9/9/2010 8:30:51 PM - Error - Running script, script run or compile error in file: startup.txt438:Object doesn't support this property or method: 'hs.SendMail' in line 19 More info: Object doesn't support this property or method: 'hs.SendMail'

My full startup script is:

' this is the startup script
' it is run once when HomeSeer starts up
'
' this is a good place to default status on some devices
'
sub main()
hs.WriteLog "Startup","Scripting is OK"

' if speaker client is not running, start it
if not hs.IsApplicationRunning("Speaker") then
hs.Launch hs.GetAppPath & "\Speaker.exe","","",0
end if

' speak
'hs.speak "Welcome to Home-Seer",TRUE

' add calls startup scripts and function calls here

hs.SendMail "rba*****@gmail.com", "myhouse@****.net", "HomeSeer powered on", "HomeSeer was just started."

end sub

[Rupp]

Replace sendmail with sendEmail

[ryanbmsu]

Success

That did it! Thanks Rupp!