Disaster recovery and virtualisation

[swiddy]

Installed Sitesensor yesterday. Defined a http request towards yr.no for the weather.
Default it only sends requests when the device is armed. When I armed the sensor both of my sirens started bleeping. Not funny with at night with two kids asleep.

Simultaneous with arming the device, the first http request probably is send and my first http request did not have the Useragent http header so the result was a 403; this probably made the sitesensor device being triggered.

I unchecked the box "only send requests when armed" and disarmed the sitesensor. This works ok but only one slight mistake with thick fingers and I have armed it again.

I see the sitesensor device is being configured as a SecuritySensor (as it implements the securitysensor serivce?). This makes that sirens react when the sitesensor trips. I have a leakage sensor as well and I know this one triggers the sirens as well. Do not have any doorsensors right now but hope these will not trigger sirens as well.

Is there a way to tell Sirens to ignore Sitesensor and/or other specific devices. Or should sitesensor not be configured as a security device?
Is there an easy solution?

Grtz Swiddy

Some details:
-Vera Secure box with built in siren (siren is a separate device)
-POPP Smokedetector with siren
-Upto-date with Vera firmware and Not on Openluup yet but don't think this would make a difference here

[therealdb]

@swiddy said in SiteSensor triggered my both sirens:

Do not have any doorsensors right now but hope these will not trigger sirens as well.

Any security sensors will trigger your siren when armed and triggered. That's why I don't use armed/disarmed, but my own logic and my own notifications when triggered.

The easy solution is to disarm your sensors, if you don't need them as security sensors.

[rafale77]

@swiddy

That's not fun

A potential solution:
This doesn't sound fun. I wrote my own scene in openLuup to determine when to trigger the siren to avoid this problem. I used the category/subcategory number of sensors to trigger the alarm in different mode only for specific categories of security sensors and I have a ton of sitesensors... which obviously won't trigger the alarm. I also setup a very loud TTS warning through my SONOS speakers before the sirens turn off. I also arm and disarm security sensors depending on the mode according to their subcategory.

[Crille]

@swiddy
In Configure presets for house modes there is “What to do if an armed sensor trips”.
Select “off” for your sirens in preferred modes.
If you want the sirens to go off for specific sensors, create a scene with these sensors as trigger and the action to turn on the sirens.