EleaAlert – A platform for monitoring smart devices with a flexible alert system. EleaAlert connects your sensors into a unified network, analyzes their status, and sends notifications through your selected communication channels exactly when needed.

Getting Started. Creating a Workspace

After receiving your account credentials and logging in, you will land on the first page, where you will need to create your first workspace.

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A Workspace is your main working environment. It is the place where you manage your devices, organize them into groups, configure automations, and receive notifications.

When creating a workspace, you will need to specify its name and description.

Once the workspace is created, you will be redirected to the Home page of the platform.

As you can see, the page is empty because no devices have been added yet. To add devices, you need to subscribe.

Subscription

By clicking on the name of your workspace, you will see a menu with a subscription button, workspace selection, and the option to create a new one. By clicking on Subscription, you will be taken to the plan selection page.

After choosing a plan, you can pay for it through Stripe. Once the payment is completed, you will be able to add devices and fully use the service. Let’s continue with adding devices.

Adding Devices

To add devices, go to the Devices page.

Click on "Add device" and, in the provider selection window, choose your device provider.

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Fake devices are available for testing the platform.

You can read more about adding Aqara devices here.

To demonstrate how the system works, we will add a couple of Aqara and Monitor devices. After adding them, you will see the following table on the Devices page.

If you click on a device name, a page with the connection status and alarm status will open. On the right, you will see a table with the main device details, and at the bottom, its events table.

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An Event is technical information about messages sent by the device. We use these events on the platform to understand how the device actually works and to build automations. The Source field shows whether the message came from the device (Device) or was created by the EleaAlert platform (Cloud).

As you can see, next to the device name there is a button with three dots. By clicking on it, you will open a menu with various actions.

Description of actions:

• Refresh status - send a request to the Aqara server to get up-to-date information about whether the device is online or offline and whether it has the latest firmware installed.

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Information about online and offline status is received automatically via webhook, but sometimes you may want to request it manually using Refresh status. Data about WiFi, Zigbee signal, and battery is received only via webhook.

• Move to group - move the device to a selected group.

• Change alarm status - change the alarm status from active to inactive or vice versa.

• Create URL - this action allows you to create a link or QR code that generates an Event of type Cloud. This is useful if you want a button to trigger a press action without physically pressing it, by scanning a QR code or following a link.

• Delete - delete the device.

After adding devices, you can organize them into groups and then configure automations to receive notifications.

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A Notification is a message that the platform sends either to the EleaAlert website, to email, or to a monitor. After configuring automations and creating notifications that are clear and meaningful to you, you will better understand what is happening with your devices.

Working with Groups

To logically combine devices, you can use groups. To do this, go to the Groups page. There create a group and use the Actions button to add existing devices to it. As an example, we will add these devices:

You can immediately see the device status on this page. At the bottom, there is a table with all Events related to the devices in this group. Also, for convenience, if at least one device has an active alarm, you will see a yellow triangle icon on both the group and the device:

Automations

After adding devices and organizing them into groups, you need to configure automations. Automations allow you to define notification rules and control how the system works overall. There is a separate article for this: Automation.

Users

You can also add other users who will help manage the platform. To do this, go to the Users page and send an invitation to your colleague’s email.

Additional Information

After setting up the platform, you can monitor what is happening on the Dashboard page, which is located in the Home menu. Data from the widgets you choose to add will be updated automatically.

Conclusion

You have reviewed the basic setup of our EleaAlert platform. We hope it helps you in your daily work!