Continuous leakage alarm

Continuous leakage alarm

Continuous leakage alarm
Continuous leakage alarm
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Model: Tapo T300  
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Hi Wayne & Team

Not sure if I'm in the right forum here.


I'm successfully running a Tapo leak sensor (T300) connected to a hub (H100). I'm getting a notification on the Tapo app, and managed to set up automations to ring the hub upon leak detection (and stop the alarm upon leak solution).

 

However, the longest I can set the alarm for is 10 minutes. If I'm outside of the house for a moment and miss the hub alarm, the leak may go unnoticed. I'd like an option to ring the alarm forever until I turn it off manually or until the "leak solved" event.

 

Is there a clever automation trick to perhaps repeat the alarm or something else to make the alarm sound until someone deals with it? I believe this absolutely essential to prevent water damage if nobody is around within 10 minutes.

 

Alternatively, or in addition, I'd like the app notification to be more "urgent" than a single little sound from my phone. If the notification system is limited by phone's OS, would it be possible to make the notification repeat every x minutes (until it is cleared by the user)? For something as significant as a water leak in the house it seems just too chancy to limit the notification to a single brief sound and some text buried in the notification list.

 

Any advice (or promise of upcoming new features) is much appreciated.

 

Matthias

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  @MatthiasNZ 

 

Tapo T300 itself has a built-in alarm, the alarm triggers when water leak is detected and will only stop when water leak is solved or when its control button is pressed. This does not require additional setup.

 

Tapo app notification sound adapts to phone system notification sound, you may check if your phone allows customized notification sound for different apps. 

 

If you want to have repeat notifications and make the hub ring continuously unless the water leak issue is resolved, I do have an idea, check the below settings. When automation is triggered, all the action rules will be executed immediately at the same time unless there is a "Delay Action", the actions after "Delay Action" will be executed after the delay countdown ends.

 

1. Create an automation with repeat notifications and hub alarms.

E.g.

Name: "Water Leak Alarm and Notification"

[When] T300 water leak detected

[Then] 

1. Send a notification

2. Ring Tapo hub for 10 minutes.

3. Delay 11 minutes. *If you set it to 11 minutes, the hub will pause ringing for 1 minute (the first 10 minutes will ring based on the settings of the second action). If you want the hub to ring continuously, you should set it to 10 minutes.

4. Send a notification

5. Ring Tapo hub for 10 minutes.

6. Delay 11 minutes.

<Repeat.... Up to 64 actions can be added in one automation.>

 

2. Create an automation to stop the above notification when water leak issue is resolved. 

E.g.

[When] T300 water leak is solved

[Then] Disable Automation "Water Leak Alarm and Notification"

 

 

 

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