Alarms/Emails

[Mapantz]

I hit a high gust threshold 3 times in a matter of a minute, but CMX won't stop sending emails. Currently at 25, and counting.

Also, sound's won't play, despite them being enabled.

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[mcrossley]

Do you have a latch set on the alarm?

Sounds, yep problematic, most browsers now block them. Putting up the prompt button and agreeing it is supposed to allow them but it seems to be unreliable, if the page is refreshed you have to go through the process again with some browsers. I was toying with the idea of dropping them at some point.

[mcrossley]

I'll have another look at the code though, seeing the permissions via user integration *should* work!

[mcrossley]

Tested it again and it works for me in Edge. The problem is it does not prompt you for the permission until an alarm sounds.

The best solution though is to permanently enable the permissions in the site manager of your browser for the dashboard page. You need to enable permissions to show notifications and play sounds.

[Mapantz]

Sounds are already enabled for the dashboard, but notifications are greyed out, and there's no way to change that. I suspect it's because it's not https.

You can't even use [*.] to add it, as it has to be a secure url.

[mcrossley]

The increasing restrictions on non-https sites are a bit of pain. Especially as a lot of IoT devices are http as well. There really ought to be a way of relaxing the requirements for connections on your local LAN.

[mcrossley]

Intersting - a W3C proposal dating back to 2019 acknowledges and provides possible solutions to the problem. Nothing much seems to have happened since

[ConligWX]

is there any browser extension that could handle this?

have you tried to run Chrome with a flag like so:

chrome --unsafely-treat-insecure-origin-as-secure="http://example.com"

not saying it will work, but just a thought. I think the is a chrome flag too using this method. or try firefox perhaps.

[Mapantz]

is there any browser extension that could handle this?

have you tried to run Chrome with a flag like so:

chrome --unsafely-treat-insecure-origin-as-secure="http://example.com"

not saying it will work, but just a thought. I think the is a chrome flag too using this method. or try firefox perhaps.

Yeah, that worked! Nice one.

[ConligWX]

excellent. glad it worked. I known its not perfect, but a workaround is better than none.

[Mapantz]

Now that desktop notifications are working for me, is it possible to add the value of achieved threshold to the notification toast?

Would it be possible to add an alarm notification option for lightning?

[HansR]

chrome --unsafely-treat-insecure-origin-as-secure="http://example.com"

You may start searching again in some months: that is an experiment, a volatile useless part of chrome if you are just a user.

[ConligWX]

chrome --unsafely-treat-insecure-origin-as-secure="http://example.com"

You may start searching again in some months: that is an experiment, a volatile useless part of chrome if you are just a user.

I dont have to start searching. I'm not the one using it

[Mapantz]

Well, I decided to just to have sounds enabled for my gust alarm, but it's a bit of a nothing burger, because the sound doesn't play if the tab is not in focus. Not only that, it doesn't seem to trigger properly either. I had the tab in focus and the gust speed went above the threshold, and nothing happened. As soon as I refreshed the tab, it played the sound.

[mcrossley]

I found a bug that prevents an alarm triggering more than once, updated script attached if you want to try it.

I can't do anything about browsers hibernating tabs that have lost focus. If they are still active but in the background, then I found the sounds still play if I toggle the alarm values in another window - using this updated script anyway.

One of the original intents of the alarms is for people who use the display full time on say a tablet.