smyers119 wrote:
That is exactly what I was thinking, since you sound leery about sending Alarm Relay extra alarm reports. Sorry it took so long to get back to you, it's been a busy day. As far as I know envisalink works fine with partitions.
After you are finished let me know if it works!
Good luck!
Thanks Steve.
I just tested it out and it does work. I armed the partition 1 of the system and then turned on the irrigation system. I did NOT get an SMS, so I turned if back off. At that time I did get the SMS message showing the irrigation was off. I then checked my email messages and had received both the message for it being turned on and turned off at the proper times. Then 25 minutes later I got the SMS message showing that the irrigation had been turned on 35 minutes earlier.
I guess this delay in the "water on" message is not an Eyez-on issue and just has something to do with how AT&T delivered the SMS, but it seems strange that AT&T would deliver the SMSs out of order. I had noticed similar happenings yesterday during my testing.
The other thing I just noticed is that these two configurable zones are reported in the email and SMS by Eyez-on as being in partition 0. I went back to look at the reports from yesterday when I had these two zones in partition 1 and they were being reported as partition 0 then too. This is no big deal to me, but is kind of strange. Everything else looks like I would have expected.
I see now that the zone activity report on my cell phone is in order of the zone numbers. The report doesn't give the zone number, just lists the name, so I had no clue why they were showing up in other than chronological order. Maybe you can tell me why on the zone activity display they show numbers like 6 7, 14 15.... on the right hand column. I would think it would be something like 1-8, 9-16..... instead. Very strange.
I probably am too inexperienced at this to be commenting on system reliability, but in my experience I know POTS is very reliable even during power outages. I have a 1000 watt UPS on my modem and router and some other minor equipment and it will only buy me 2 hours during a power outage. I just don't know enough about the reliability of other companies equipment to feel comfortable enough to switch over. I would like to get a loss of AC report as soon as it happens but for some strange reason Honeywell decided that a random time up to 4 hours later is good enough. I suspect they did this so that the central office won't get thousands of reports all at once during a wide spread outage. Do you know of a workaround to get a SMS sent as soon as the power goes out? The only thing I can think to do would be set up another monitor zone in partition 2 with a relay energized by the AC power supplying the 20P. When the power goes out, the relay opens and Eyez-on sends me a message. That will work but there has to be a better way.