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🖥️ActiveHome Pro => Plug-ins => OnAlert => Topic started by: spankyboy10 on January 29, 2008, 08:30:43 AM

Title: Email Notification Woo's using OnAlert, Smartmacro's and Myhouse in AHP
Post by: spankyboy10 on January 29, 2008, 08:30:43 AM
With OnAlert, Smartmacro's and Myhouse with AHP, I tried a simple email notification activated by a condition such as a sensor switch and embedded lights to come on and off inside the macro. I did this to see if the macro was getting executed on the condition. Well, the lights came on and off, but the email was not sent. I set up the email address correctly and tried using different transmission type's like auto or SMTP, but nothing worked. I read some posts saying some conditions don't work in AHP, but I got the trigger to work and execute everything in the trigger, except the mail function did nothing. Has anyone got this to work? I tried posting the AHP example and it complains about a file which is < 0.5 meg. What a joke....Files can't be > 128K. Nice X10...

Thanks
Dale
Title: Re: Email Notification Woo's using OnAlert, Smartmacro's and Myhouse in AHP
Post by: Tuicemen on January 29, 2008, 09:27:46 AM
I have no problem receiving e-mails from AHP other then it not using the same method to send each time! ::)
Probably Just a setting with your firewall or in your router if your behind one!
 File posting is pretty much limited to posting pics! :(
Title: Re: Email Notification Woo's using OnAlert, Smartmacro's and Myhouse in AHP
Post by: spankyboy10 on January 29, 2008, 09:57:32 AM
Hi....

I turned off my firewall and setup an email account on my pc to see if I could do ingoing and outgoing.... It worked fine... I use Vista...Could that also be a problem...

Thanks
Dale
Title: Re: Email Notification Woo's using OnAlert, Smartmacro's and Myhouse in AHP
Post by: spankyboy10 on January 29, 2008, 10:04:25 AM
Ok.... Here is my jpeg of my screen shots....Getting a simple email macro to work...

Thanks
Dale
Title: Re: Email Notification Woo's using OnAlert, Smartmacro's and Myhouse in AHP
Post by: Tuicemen on January 29, 2008, 12:01:27 PM
Vista has some advanced security settings both for internet and the program itself!
since turning off the fire wall allowed the e-mail to go threw the problem is in Vista (not so much a problem but a setting)!
Since I don't run Vista I can't pin point exactly were to look for your firewall settings or what to set!
Hopefully someone else here running Vista will chime in with a walk threw for you!
Title: Re: Email Notification Woo's using OnAlert, Smartmacro's and Myhouse in AHP
Post by: spankyboy10 on February 05, 2008, 09:59:03 AM
Hi Tuicemen,

Sometimes now, I get an email from AHPGateway@x10.com from my Vista machine when my macro excecutes on a back door trip. It works once in a while but not always.. In addition, only one of the email addresses work thats in the macro even though both are valid...I wonder why?

This is the message I get...... Any clue why it works when ever it feels like it and not every time the macro runs?

Thanks
Dale

Back Door Open
---------------------

This message was sent by the MyHouse
 Internet Plug-in for X10 ActiveHome Pro. Access this MyHouse Controller
 online: http://myhouse.x10.com/?4220D9655B
Title: Re: Email Notification Woo's using OnAlert, Smartmacro's and Myhouse in AHP
Post by: PajamaGuy on February 05, 2008, 11:54:43 AM
Dale - it looks like your Macro will only fire when A1 goes OFF.  And you're using a lamp module as a trigger?

Why aren't you using the BackDoor Sensor as a trigger?

I am using Vista - and when AHP is NOT locked-up it always sends email.  AHP must be running to enable email.

PJ

Title: Re: Email Notification Woo's using OnAlert, Smartmacro's and Myhouse in AHP
Post by: Tuicemen on February 05, 2008, 03:11:43 PM
spankyboy10
There is a bug in the e-mail sending sometimes it sends pop3 other times through the gateway server doesn't matter which you have chosen in AHP :(.
If AHP can't send e-mail VIA POP3 then that is why sometimes you get mail and other times you don't! ::) Has nothing to do with VISTA! there is no set pattern to which method AHP will use! >:( ::) ???
As PajamaGuy noted you have your Light (A1) set up so it will trigger the macro as well as the sensor!
For more reliability you should have your lights on a different address then the motion sensor ;)(of coarse this won't help with the e-mail issue)! ;)
Title: Re: Email Notification Woo's using OnAlert, Smartmacro's and Myhouse in AHP
Post by: spankyboy10 on February 05, 2008, 04:20:39 PM
Thanks for the input guys..... I listed this macro as a test only which does not work. Since, then I have it triggered by a back door sensor hoping X10 would try and help me with it(No response as of Yet).

Thanks
Dale
Title: Re: Email Notification Woo's using OnAlert, Smartmacro's and Myhouse in AHP
Post by: KDR on February 06, 2008, 05:44:59 PM
Hi, you can take a look at this  post  (http://www.x10community.com/forums/index.php?topic=12196.msg68844#msg68844) it may help you out. I use my door/window sensors to trigger a macro and send me an email when opened on certain days between certain hours. They have worked 100% of the time.  ;D

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