If Twine does not report in for 24 hours, send me a text

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• 10 Comments sorted by Votes Date Added
• Thomas Ochs

  December 2012 Vote Up2Vote Down

  This is a great idea. I suggest that this should be part of the Twine failsafe mode. If it is not heard from in a certain amount of time or if the sensor is not working (someone has cut it), the owner should be alerted in case someone has broken it or cut the sensor cord.
• Jay Erickson

  January 2013 Vote Up1Vote Down

  +1 but could be part of adding time-based rules as opposed to just threshold-based
• Patrick Basile

  December 2012 Vote Up0Vote Down

  I agree, the 'I'm alive' monitor makes a lot of sense. This could be combined with a weekly/daily/hourly status reporting feature, all user configured. Lot's of opportunity to improve functionality in this area.
• Joseph Gaucher

  December 2012 Vote Up0Vote Down

  A heartbeat watchdog is very important when monitoring things that are "mission critical".
• John Todd

  December 2012 Vote Up0Vote Down

  +1 on this. Devices that are normally quiet should have the ability to do a heartbeat, otherwise they instill a false sense of "all systems normal" which is worse than not having a monitor at all.
• Graham Cruickshank

  January 2013 Vote Up0Vote Down

  +1 I sent an email asking for something like this, so I know if power or internet went out while I was away. They told me it was on "the list".
• don mcintyre

  January 2013 Vote Up0Vote Down

  They would have to make it user settable, not automatic. Otherwise they'ed be sending out alerts to all the Twines that are deliberately off (i.e. owners removing batteries, etc.).
  
  Regards - Don
• Doug Secrist

  May 2013 Vote Up0Vote Down

  +1  John Todd (above) has summarized the problem well.  No news may indeed be bad news.
• Melissa Osborn

  December 2013 Vote Up0Vote Down

  Need this feature (heartbeat).  Should be definable in terms of how long offline before the notification triggers to account for varying levels of importance users may have.