making my heatermeter beep

[Philip_G]

Hello,

Simple, dumb question. Everything is working on my HM except one LED I can live without and possibly the piezo speaker. When an alarm is specified in the web interface under linkmeter/alarms/alarm settings and the probe in question is out of the specified value, is the speaker supposed to beep? IE my pit probe reads 70F, the set point is 225F and I get an email alert but no beeping. I'm just making sure it is supposed to beep in this instance before I start looking for a bad solder joint. Thanks!


edit: well, disregard I guess. It took awhile but started beeping after a few minutes, go figure. thanks!

 

[ScottZ]

My piezo hasn't beeped at all either. I get an email alert and SMS text. Are there any tips/tricks in testing this out via the alarms menu?

 

[Tony L-Iowa]

You need to set an alarm as enabled on the threshold with an action of "ring" in the OpenWRT->LinkMeter->Alarms configuration area. Then, you can't just "test" the alarm from the webpage... You need it to actually hit the alarm from the HM. If you have a probe hooked up and it's resting at a temperature of 72º you can set an alarm at 74º. Then, save those alarm settings. Finally, hold the probe with your fingers to warm it up beyond 74º and that buzzer should start going off loudly! I was just doing this today with mine. I am likely going to use pushbullet notifications to send alarms to my phone or web browser.

 

[ScottZ]

Thank you Tony. This was the key information I was missing. I did exactly what you said by setting a low alarm level and grabbed the probe. Plenty of beeping and flashing back light along with texting and email alarms. This thing is cool. "You need it to actually hit the alarm from the HM. "

Now to find a fan mount design to complete the last piece of the puzzle.