Setting up a new Action

Please note that adding additional Actions over and above your monthly account allocation of actions will incur extra charges, contact your account administrator for more details.

Click the Actions option on the left sidebar.

Click the create action button in the top right corner of the resulting screen.

Give your action a name eg My Action

Click on the Action you have created to view the Action Configuration summary tab.

Note that there are 4 tabs available in the action detail view, all these tabs need to be correctly configured before an action will work correctly

• Configuration
• Devices
• Conditions
• Outputs

Configuration Tab

You can click the edit button to

• Change the name of the Action
• Add descriptive details to the action
• Enable or Disable the action

Devices Tab

You can click the add devices button to add existing devices to your action.

Type in part of the name that you gave your device to search for it

You can add as many devices as you like to an action but all the devices added to an action will usually be the same device brand and model.

Click the add devices button to save your changes

Conditions Tab

This is where we add the conditions that need to be met to trigger your action.

In the trigger Condition section click the edit button then click the add rule button

• open the first dropdown box and select one of the device parameters 
• enter the appropriate responses in the second and subsequent input box/s 
• click the save button 

Outputs Tab

This is where we add the output that we want to happen of the condition triggers the action.

Outputs can be 

• Emails to an email address
• TXTS (needs to be enabled by your admin user, additional charges apply)
• Webhooks (needs to be enabled by your admin user, additional charges apply)

To set up an email output click the add output button and select Email from the dropdown box

Enter the email address/s you want the email s to be sent to if this action is triggered

Add a Message Subject eg My Action 

Add the message body text,

• this can be a simple typed message eg My action has triggered
• but you can also add variables from the device into the message by clicking the add device variable option in the create message body menu eg {{device.name}} has triggered at {{receivedAt}}.  Check out what's happening by logging into your Senstera dashboard at https://app.senstera.com to view the device status.

Click the save button once you have finished creating your output email

Your action will now send a message every time the conditions that you have set are met.