shareez Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 Hey guys, Something odd is happening and I thought I'd ask for your opinion. I have one of those LiftMaster garage door openers where you can set it to automatically close after certain time. I've set it for 10 minutes. Now in C4 programming, I have said: When the garage door opens - reset timer garagedoor. (This timer is set for 15 minutes) When timer garagedoor expires, send email notification When garage door closes - stop time or garage door For some odd reason, I still get random emails even though the garage is closed. Now what I did was, in the email notification, I added the variables to show the status of the garage doors. Whether 1 = closed and 0 = open. In the email I receive saying the garage has been left open for longer than 15 minutes, the status at the bottom still shows that the garage is closed. It shows a 1 next to it so I don't understand what is going on? Why would it be sending me an email if the timer was supposed to be stopped when the garage is closed? Confused... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 Show screenshots of your programming. Sent from my Droid MAXX via Tapatalk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 I'm guessing something isn't properly nested under a conditional. That's just a guess though. If you can show screenshots it should be pretty easy to see. Sent from my Droid MAXX via Tapatalk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abeasst Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 If you don't have "When timer garagedoor expires, send email notification" nested under a condition related to the garage door being open then you will continue to get notifications even when the door is closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shareez Posted November 30, 2013 Author Share Posted November 30, 2013 If you don't have "When timer garagedoor expires, send email notification" nested under a condition related to the garage door being open then you will continue to get notifications even when the door is closed.what do you mean by the above? I figured that by stopping the timer when the garage closed, that should prevent it from executing the email notification IF the timer expired. (i wanted to upload screenshots but i can only find a button here to add a url of an image. where can I upload the picture to be able to show it here to you guys?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Upload it to image hut, or flickr, or image shack, etc... And then post using the URL. Sent from my Droid MAXX via Tapatalk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shareez Posted November 30, 2013 Author Share Posted November 30, 2013 Thank you! Ok attached are the images Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alf1096 Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 Just a guess but since c4 is not controlling the closing of the garage to it will not check to see if it is opened or closed until it is ready to send the email. If you want it to automatically shut I would set it up in c4 and disable the timer on the garage door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msgreenf Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 you could add a check to when the timer expires to see if the garage door is open and then only send the email if it's open else reset the timer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucecampbell Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 It seems like the Stop Timer is not being triggered.Test this by adding some simple debugging.-In the 'When garage door is closed' event have C4 also turn on a light,Close the door and see if the light turns on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shareez Posted December 6, 2013 Author Share Posted December 6, 2013 thank you guys. what seemed to have done it was the conditional I added to check the status of the garage before sending the email notification. Thanks!!Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joepap Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 Thanks guys, this helped me do my garage as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joepap Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 I spoke just a weeeee bit too soon. I have two things set to happen when I open my garage door. 1st, a dealy of two minutes and then it closes automatically. I then have a timer 'restart' for 10 minutes in case something is in the eye of the garage and the door stays open. I have set up an email notification for my garage door if at the end of the timer, garage door status is open. It's failing somewhere.....any help? https://flic.kr/p/q9iHm7 https://flic.kr/p/r6eqvj I tried to do what you said msgreenf..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyknight Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 Nice tomatoes!What exactly is failing though? You're not getting any emails? Getting emails when you're not supposed to?Helps to troubleshoot a problem if we know what the 'problem' actually is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joepap Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 Sorry! Not getting the email.... In tests, the door attempts to close after 2 minutes and can't because the eye is blocked....no email after 10 minutes.....(or 25 minutes for that matter....) I have emails set up for other things and that works....just not working with this module Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyknight Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 Try moving the notification out of the IF statement and press execute - see if you get an email then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joepap Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 I do get the email if it is not part of the "if"..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyknight Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 Then the line is correct, but your sensor seems to not be reporting properly. Your programming as such seems fine. Try putting the email back under IF, open the garage door and execute again (before it closes!). That should determine if the sensor is regsistering correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.