Simple Door Sensor with Email Notification

[rnormore]

Hi Folks

I am a new user to Node Red. I am looking to do a simple project. I have one zwave door sensor which is showing connected in node red and I can see the state change from on and off when opening and closing door.

I would like to get an email alert when the door sensor is on(open). I am able to send and email test in node red and it does come through, but for the life of me I cannot link it all together. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Colin]

Start by reading the docs on working with messages which will give you some good information. Then you can feed the message from sensor into a Switch node (not a ui_switch node) to pass on only messages that indicate it is open, then feed that into a Change node where you can setup the data for the email node. Then, obviously feed that into the email node. Build it by adding one node at a time and feeding the result into a debug node. When that node is doing what it should then add the next one, again feeding it into a debug node, and so on. That stops you getting to the situation where you build a complete flow and it doesn't work but you haven't any idea why.