I posted this in the Vera Alert section, but I think this is probably an issue with the AD2USB. I am trying to have a verbal announcement each time one of the alarm sensors is tripped in my house. For example, when the front door is opened, there would be an announcement stating "Front door open". I have my Honeywell Ademco Vista alarm panel connected to my Vera Lite via an AD2USB with the Honeywell Ademco Vista Alarm Panels Plugin on the Vera. The senors all work well in the Vera. Now, I am trying to use Vera Alerts to send an announcement to an Android tablet that will be permanently mounted in the house. I have installed the Vera Alerts Plugin on the Vera and the Android app on the tablet. The plan is to have one scene with triggers for each sensor that will send a notification when the sensor is tripped. The notification is sent using the Luup event in the trigger with the following code:
luup.call_action("urn:richardgreen:serviceId:VeraAlert1", "SendAlert", {Message = "Door open {tone:1}", Recipients = ""}, 6)
I have created the scene and some test triggers. The notification gets sent, but the issue is that it repeats approximately every 4 seconds until the sensor is closed. The Message Repeat Count in the Android app is set to 0, so I do not think it is the cause. Plus, I have tried making a test trigger with an Z-wave appliance module as the trigger (instead of an alarm sensor) and it makes the announcement only once. So my thoughts are that the sensor/panel is repeatedly sending an open signal until it is closed, which is repeatedly triggering; the announcements stop within seconds of the sensor being closed. I saw that in April 2013 there where some posts in this thread that some people had similar issues when version 3.00 of the plugin came out. The main panel plugin states I am running plugin version 2.45 (though when I go to my apps it states 3.10). My TTL setting is 60.
Did people get this fixed? Any suggestions on how to fix this? I would like Vera Alerts to make only one announcement when an alarm sensor is tripped.
Thank you.