Send Email when switch or float is triggered

[Trivan]

Hi, due to user induced error, my skimmer cause a lot of RO/DI to be put into my tank. Everything worked as intended, but I want to be able to send myself an email every time my float switch is triggered. I only see Email being sent on an Alarm. The Level - Auto Top off function doesn't allow alarm to be set.
Is this possible?


More details if people want to read (almost all Profilux controlled):
I have a a 40 gallon RO/DI with a barrel tender - auto creating RO/DI on demand
I have a small 2 gallon RO/DI container being fed by 40 Gallon tank, a Tunze ATO goes from the 2 gallon to Tank
Skimmer waste goes to drain.
When the skimmer was changed it overflowed, w/o me realizing it (I hardly every change setting) and caused a cycle of tank water being exited and RO/DI in.
Pre-covid I use to travel a lot so I never have to worry about filling the ATO. I've had this set up for over 5 years and works great for me, so not looking to change it, just improve it.

 

[Lasse]

he Level - Auto Top off function doesn't allow alarm to be set.

Yes it does. Use Maximum on-time. In this case - you get an alarm after the level switch have been activated for 10 sec. Check reset error automatically - your alarm will go off when it filled up. You can use 1 sec or whatever you want befor alarm goes on. If you set 0:00:00 - no alarm is triggered. You can also use leak detection in anothe function but with the same sensor index as for your top off

Sincerely Lasse

 

[Trivan]

Yes it does. Use Maximum on-time. In this case - you get an alarm after the level switch have been activated for 10 sec.

Update: re-read this post and now thinking this may work. Will give it a try.

Lasse, thanks. The problem is it’s not the duration of being on but the frequency. The switch was triggers multiple times over the course of a day. It never stayed on. the only way I could think of to catch this problem in the future is to send a email. Evaporation will be fairly consistant so I’ll only get so many emails per hour. If I notice more, then I know I have a problem. open to other ideas thou.

 

[Trivan]

So I made some changes and the alarm is consistently triggered to be on, even when the container is full. The control to turn the pump on/off is working as intended.

 

[Trivan]

Just changed the Operation mode to Auto Top Off and the alarm reset. New problem seems to be the maximum on-time turns off the pump based upon the time set. Will continue to test....

 

[Lasse]

If you do 2 different control operations with the same sensor. One for your ATO and one for trigger your e-mail. The first connected to the pump and with - let us say 10 minutes max time (or not active). The other - not connecting to anything - just to trigger one alarm after 2 sec

Control circuit 1 - connected to the switch channel for the ATO pump

And circuit 2

Using the same censor but does nothing - just virtual but after 2 sec it triggers an alarm that NOT stop the ATO pump.

It works - its tested

Sincerely Lasse

 

[Trivan]

If you do 2 different control operations with the same sensor. One for your ATO and one for trigger your e-mail. The first connected to the pump and with - let us say 10 minutes max time (or not active). The other - not connecting to anything - just to trigger one alarm after 2 sec

Control circuit 1 - connected to the switch channel for the ATO pump

And circuit 2

Using the same censor but does nothing - just virtual but after 2 sec it triggers an alarm that NOT stop the ATO pump.

It works - its tested

Sincerely Lasse

Lasse,
Thank you! This make sense. I'll try it now.

 

[Macca_75]

Side not to question, but a notification from the app would be FAR better and more real time than an antiquated email.

Every App on the market now sends notifications......

 

[Trivan]

Side not to question, but a notification from the app would be FAR better and more real time than an antiquated email.

Every App on the market now sends notifications......

or a log file would be great

 

[Lasse]

or a log file would be great

That you can easily do with the latest firmware. Here you can see how I log my ATO- I get time, how long it works and amount of RO water added

Here is the switch channel that manage my ATO pump

Now - create a virtual dosing pump. I have the latest FW that allow me to have 32 dosing pumps. I chose pump 31 for my ATO and there is no physical GHL pump attached - My ATO is done of another pump but managed by switch channel 5. Some remarks.

Record dosage = on
My ATO container is 25 L (25000 ml).
My ATO pump gives 82,6 ml/minute. (blue marking). If your ATO pump gives more than 1000 ml/minute (60 L/H) make a multiple of it. Let us say that it gives 300 L/hour (= 5000 ml/minute) - put in 500 ml/minute in your flowrate and remember to multiply your real reading with 10.
My switch channel for ATO pump is 5 and I put that as an index for what the pump should react on. (red marking)

This way of doing things give you a lot of advantages. You can see when your ATO container get low and also trig an alarm for this. You can record your fillings in time, length and volume.

You have your log here!

Sincerely Lasse

 

[Macca_75]

That you can easily do with the latest firmware. Here you can see how I log my ATO- I get time, how long it works and amount of RO water added

Here is the switch channel that manage my ATO pump

Now - create a virtual dosing pump. I have the latest FW that allow me to have 32 dosing pumps. I chose pump 31 for my ATO and there is no physical GHL pump attached - My ATO is done of another pump but managed by switch channel 5. Some remarks.

Record dosage = on
My ATO container is 25 L (25000 ml).
My ATO pump gives 82,6 ml/minute. (blue marking). If your ATO pump gives more than 1000 ml/minute (60 L/H) make a multiple of it. Let us say that it gives 300 L/hour (= 5000 ml/minute) - put in 500 ml/minute in your flowrate and remember to multiply your real reading with 10.
My switch channel for ATO pump is 5 and I put that as an index for what the pump should react on. (red marking)

This way of doing things give you a lot of advantages. You can see when your ATO container get low and also trig an alarm for this. You can record your fillings in time, length and volume.

You have your log here!

Sincerely Lasse

I do something similar with my AWC

As you can't have a 2000L "vessel" I have setup a virtual dosing pump, but instead of dosing 1L is doses 10ml (and the vessel is set to 2L). The real AWC pump and the virtual pump run the same schedule, so as a percentage the virtual pump tells me how much NSW I have left on hand.

AWC Maxi for NSW refill

Virtual pump to monitor the amount of NSW I have left

And then as a percentage I can see whats left

 

[Macca_75]

or a log file would be great

A log would be good for historical tracking, but if something goes wrong and alarms I would prefer to know real time (ie. send a notification to my phone, not an email I will see when I check my emails).

I know some countries can "email to a SMS" however that isn't a (free) service offered in Australia.

 

[Member No 1]

A log would be good for historical tracking, but if something goes wrong and alarms I would prefer to know real time (ie. send a notification to my phone, not an email I will see when I check my emails).

I know some countries can "email to a SMS" however that isn't a (free) service offered in Australia.

I have alarms set up to send notifications for both email and text (in the USA using T-Mobile) and using an iPhone that has push email. If there is an alarm, I get a text and email alert within seconds of each other.