Nest cameras alerts to Alexa issues.

[adigraham]

Hi team,

First post so be gentle!

I have created a Virtual Button which when I press it, it sends a notification to my Alexa device - "Person spotted on the Drive".

But I'm struggling with the capturing of the Nest Person alerts my phone has received.

All help and advice welcome.

 

[tanutanu]

Hi team,

First post so be gentle!

I have created a Virtual Button which when I press it, it sends a notification to my Alexa device - "Person spotted on the Drive".

But I'm struggling with the capturing of the Nest Person alerts my phone has received.

All help and advice welcome.

How does the notification show you?
Capture the the texts into variables with the magic texts, [notification] and [not_title] once, and look into them. You can figure out what it exactly notify.

 

[adigraham]

Hi,

I get a phone notification not an SMS.

Will look into the variables.

Thanks

 

[tanutanu]

Hi,

I get a phone notification not an SMS.

Will look into the variables.

Thanks

I meant text as notification text string, not SMS at all

 

[adigraham]

Ok so I'm up to this point.

 

[tanutanu]

Ok so I'm up to this point.

So how do the boolean variables work for you?
[notification] or [not_title] should not be variable names. Read the wiki page before taking a wild guess

Variables - MacroDroid Wiki

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Magic text - MacroDroid Wiki

macrodroidforum.com

 

[Dm114]

Ok so I'm up to this point.

@tanutanu is right: the variable you are using are Magic texts and their values are assigned by MD (not by you).
Does your trigger fire as it should? Maybe not because the '*' surrounding the word 'someone' are at least useless or inappropriate when using the 'Contains' option.

 

[adigraham]

The virtual button works fine. But the capturing of the notification doesn't.

*Person* *someone* doesn't work.

 

[Dm114]

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The virtual button works fine. But the capturing of the notification doesn't.

*Person* *someone* doesn't work.

Of course it won't work because of the syntax. If you want to match multiple words you must tick 'enable regular expression...' and separate words with | symbol.