User Mchd17 on this forum and I have been discussing how to send a notification email when it starts raining. We did this in the Davis Weatherlink sub. But the conversation turned to discussing this method on the Meteobridge. This thread is to share what we accomplished and give some more details for everyone to enjoy and Metobridge users would more easily find this information and perhaps even add to the discussion by posting this here.
Thread where we started
https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=36108.0How to configure your Meteobridge to send email notification when it starts rainingIt is first necessary to configure the Meteobridge to send outgoing email. There is probably more than one way to configure this but these settings worked for me. I logged into my Yahoo email and then went to my Yahoo account settings and relaxed the login requirements to allow the Meteobridge to be able to log in using SMTP and send email. I used my Yahoo account because it is an account that is not my primary account and I didn't mind relaxing this security. Doing this enables SMTP authentication to be possible by a software client (the Meteobridge). If you want to use an alternative email account then
you must ensure that SMTP authentication is possible with that other service.
YAHOO Account Settings:
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Then you can configure the Meteobridge to send email out with your fixed Yahoo (or other) account that is set up to allow SMTP outgoing email.
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The next step is to build the email notification service. Under the drop down to
Select Service choose
Email.
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Then in the drop down to
Select Event Type choose
Alarm Condition.
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Then click on
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You'll then see a blank email notification section above under Event Definition. This event will just incrementally get the next number available. If you haven't previously defined other events then it will be #1. In my case it is #4. This is how you fill it out to get Rain Notification when it begins to rain and then it clears after the rain event stops...and ready for the next rain event. Notice that you don't have to send email to the same account that is being used to send the email. In my case I want this notification to go to my gmail.com address. So my Yahoo account is used to send the notification to my Gmail address.
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