Disabled program not sending notifications

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Ian Coulthard

June 08, 2018 21:10

I have a program set up called "seed watering" for that - a few zones that need an extra watering as it dries out to get a seeded area up and running. Rather than doing 3 manually I set this up and because you cannot "not" put in a schedule I set one anyway but disabled the program but you can still fire it manually - works well. It does not however send a notification that the program fired nor the zones within it and it would be good for confirmations when not around to actually see it working.

Can this be fixed - or allow a program not to have to have a schedule but just be setup for manual operation as needed?

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  RainMachine Nicholas June 09, 2018 12:39 (Edited June 09, 2018 12:42)

  Hmm, we never send notifications for manually started/stopped things, as you already know what you did. Maybe we can add as an option which you turn on on notification settings.

   

  Going to move this to Enhancements category so we can keep track.

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  Ian Coulthard June 09, 2018 15:26

  Fair comment so agree this  be moved to enhancement instead. 2 scenarios this would be of value:

   

  a) You hit the wrong one inadvertently and then see the notification, opportunity to correct

  b) Someone else fires something off - good to know 

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  Ian Coulthard June 20, 2018 20:00

  Just to add justification for this, I had put a snooze on for today due to a lot over night rain and no need to water (it planned to based on program). When I kicked off the snooze manually I also inadvertently fired off the program and wasn't till a little later i found the first zone was on. Had the notification been sent upon manual operation I'd have sene it and stopped sooner.

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  Ian Coulthard July 22, 2018 02:24

  Any idea when this will be implemented? Another manual operation by someone today and would have been good to get a notification

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  RainMachine Nicholas July 23, 2018 07:00

  Bringing this up on our next development planing meeting.

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  Jerry July 23, 2018 07:44

  Ian, hello
  I understand you :)
  For me is simple. I have only one device and I wanted to be notified when my kids or my wife starts one of my zones manually.
  I set an IFTTT applet for each of my zones and I get an email each time a zone is starting. Of course, it would be nice to have an IFTTT trigger when the RainMachine starts to water, no matter what zone, but you can't have both :) Also, I need to know precisely what zone has started.
  It works for me.

  Thanks,
  Jerry

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  Ian Coulthard July 23, 2018 12:30

  Thanks but you shouldn't need to set up an IFTTT function, the device already sends notifications of everything it does, it simply needs to be enabled to do so when it triggers programs or zones manually.

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