Hi! I finished a home security alarm a couple of weeks ago but I think there is still something missing. I want the system to send me some kind of status report when I use a command in Telegram Messenger. The status report should say something like: The system has been active for X hours X minut…

Is there a way I can view these flows on my Windows pc without having Node-Red installed or is this impossible?

If your alarm system has an api available and/or can be talked to via http(s) then you can use node-red to accomplish this quite easily* *(depending on your technical knowledge)

You can't really do that. If they are formatted, you do get a feel for what's going on if you read a few. But best to run up Node-RED on your Windows PC. That's what I do for all my development as it is a lot easier than messing with remote servers. I use Telegram bots extensively. I get Node-RED …

Depends what you mean. If Node-RED is inactive because something is wrong - that might be difficult since you are relying on Node-RED to activate the bot. If you mean that the bot tells you how loaded (how much CPU/RAM/etc is in use) your system is - then absolutely, that is pretty straight-forwar…

I see, I will just leave it like this then scince the bot won't be able to respond if the system is inactive. Thanks for your help :slight_smile:

[image] anon4382222: scince the bot won't be able to respond if the system is inactive. Well no system can respond if it is dead! You would need a parallel system in order to do that. Indeed, that is exactly what I do. I have 2 Pi's, each with their own MQTT brokers. They each send heartbeats…

So unless I use another Pi I wont be able to send information if the power falls out?

I was thinking, maybe I could use a powerbank as ups? Would this work?

The best solution would be too use another machine that’s off-site. That machine could be in the cloud, etc. and have a heart beat between them. This way you’ll be notified if the system is no longer able to communicate for one reason or another. If you planning another alarm system at another…

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bakman2 23 April 2019 09:30 11

With node-red you can ping your alarm system, if no response > telegram message

You can also build a command interface (like /status) that returns a status like armed/disarmed etc: as long as you can interface with your alarm system.

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