Hello community,
I use a Steinel L600 lamp with camera.
Unfortunately it doesn’t support any integration with current Firmware.
Now I thought about, whether it’s possible to open the steinel app by HA if any trigger comes from HA?
Currently I use the integration to send notifications from HA to a dedicated Android phone. Llamalab Automate is running on the phone and the notifications trigger various Android apps - mostly just sending texts etc. Works very smoothly.
@Stiltjack, are you able to send diferent messages from HA notification, activating specific cloud message receive blocks at Automate app? I configured 3 diferent messages but any of them is activating all flows in Automate app.
Any help, really appreciated!
I now only use Automate on the phone to convert HA notifications into texts, which is relatively simple to do:
Message from HA (the payload) received using the Cloud receive block which places it in a variable
Text message sent using the SMS send block, with the variable as the message.
If you wanted different messages to launch different actions you could define several variables at the beginning of a flow, then compare the payload with each of them to decide which route the flow should take. So the flow would be:
Define variable A using a Set variable block
Define variable B
Define varianle C
Receive HA Message using the Cloud receive block
Check if payload = variable A using Expression true block. If yes launch action A, if not…
Check if payload = variable B using Expression true block. If yes launch action B, if not…
Check if payload = variable C using Expression true block. If yes launch action C
Does this make sense? It easier to follow in a flow.
I have it!! Thanks a lot!!
As I have 3 separated flows in Automate, I just included an expression true block in each of them. So then a message sent from HA with its own payload (message body) is matching perfectly this conditional block.