Email Notification Woo's using OnAlert, Smartmacro's and Myhouse in AHP

[spankyboy10]

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

[Tuicemen]

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!

[spankyboy10]

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

[spankyboy10]

Ok.... Here is my jpeg of my screen shots....Getting a simple email macro to work...

Thanks
Dale

[Tuicemen]

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!

[spankyboy10]

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
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This message was sent by the MyHouse
Internet Plug-in for X10 ActiveHome Pro. Access this MyHouse Controller
online: http://myhouse.x10.com/?4220D9655B

[PajamaGuy]

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

[Tuicemen]

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)!

[spankyboy10]

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

[KDR]

Hi, you can take a look at this post 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. 

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