Temperature Exception Alerts via Email or SMS

[A.Salah44]

Hello everyone,
I don't have any experience or education before about Node-red (beginner),

My project is to measure temperature using (Raspberry Pi 3 B with 1-wire DS18B20 digital temperature sensor) ,
so
I would like get alerts by receiving an email message whenever the sensor value goes out of a specified range,
for example to Sending e-mail notifications when temperature is over 30°C., if it possible directly from the sensor.

Any help would be appreciated a lot.
Thanks in advance.

Node-RED version: v1.2.9
Node.js version: v10.24.0

[zenofmud]

Take a look at the switch node. You could test the value and eithor ignore it or send it on. You may want to rate limit the number of emails sent depending on how ofter you read the sensor.

[meeki007]

Is this going into production ? or is this for personal use?

things to look out for and add your own checks if the sensor keeps sending these values

85C - the temperature sensor has either not received an instruction to do a temperature conversion, or it has not had the time or the power to do a conversion. Check for fallty connection in I/0 data line and power line. Check for corosion in connector or inside sensor housing. 3.3v power Might not be stable

0C - Check for too much resistance in line pullup resistor. Check for faulty connection in I/0 data line. Check for corrosion in connector or inside sensor housing. 3.3v power should be stable

This should help you get started - you will need node-red-contrib-string node-red-contrib-string (node) - Node-RED

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Just play around with what i did. This is not a soulution but a stepping stone to point you in the right direction.

[meeki007]

also if your stuck in imperial like me you might like this.

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[A.Salah44]

it's for personal use , first of all i would like to learn, so I'm trying to make my home smart (DIY) , and I've started with the temperature as easy project. (making boiler temperature monitoring system and wanted to get alert mail when there's no hot water :

was difficult at the beginning to understand, but step by step.

thank you so much,
sei un grande

[A.Salah44]

thank you so much, you're right (switch node) was easy solution for my request.

[rons4]

Hi, I recently created a quick video for a similar scenario (temperature alert):

Reliable IoT Alerting with Node-RED and SIGNL4

For alerting I use our own alerting service SIGNL4.

Since this is just a demo I use a simulator for changing the temperature (instead of an actual sensor). I created this using the Node-RED UI nodes. I send an alert when the temperature it too high and close it again when the temperature gets back to normal again.

I hope this helps or gives you some more ideas about what's possible

[A.Salah44]

thank you sooooooooo much