# sendNotification stop working

**URL:** <https://community.openhab.org/t/sendnotification-stop-working/32645>\
**Category:** Beginners\
**Tags:** sendnotification\
**Created:** [August 2, 2017, 10:35pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/sendnotification-stop-working/32645 "2017-08-02T22:35:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![audioguru](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/audioguru/32/3092_2.png) [@audioguru](https://community.openhab.org/u/audioguru)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 10:35pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/sendnotification-stop-working/32645/1 "2017-08-02T22:35:06Z")

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Hi!

I’ve setup sendNotification today for my garage door it did work and eventualy during the day it stop, I’ve tried a bunch of things with no success.

The garage door is a sensor connected to OH2 trough mqtt, I can see the state changing but I don’t receive anymore any notification on my iPhone and neither on the OpenHab Cloud service.

My item is:  
/\* Contact Door \*/  
String Garage\_Door “Garage Door:[%s]” (Garage) {mqtt=“\<[mosquitto:Boubounouche/Garage/DoorSensor:state:default]”}

My rule is:  
rule “Garage Door Notification”  
when  
Item Garage\_Door changed from Close to Open  
then  
sendNotification(“audioguru@videotron.ca”, “La porte de garage est ouverte.”)  
end

And what I saw on openhab cloud  
When What  
Today at 11:30 AM La porte de garage est ouverte.  
Today at 10:19 AM La porte de garage est ouverte.  
Today at 10:04 AM La porte de garage est ouverte.

Any clue?

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**Author:** ![Udo\_Hartmann](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/udo_hartmann/32/70871_2.png) [@Udo\_Hartmann](https://community.openhab.org/u/Udo_Hartmann)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 12:15am UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/sendnotification-stop-working/32645/2 "2017-08-03T00:15:14Z")

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I’ pretty sure that this line won’t work as expected

```auto
Item Garage_Door changed from Close to Open

```

, because the Item is a string item and these are strings but not states. It should be:

```auto
Item Garage_Door changed from "Close" to "Open"

```

provided that `Close` and `Open` are the correct strings. Be aware that maybe the rule won’t fire because the string changed not from `Close` but from `null`

From a programmers perspective, I would recommend to use a contact Item if possible, but then the states would be `CLOSED` and `OPEN` and I guess that mosquitto does it the wrong way?

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**Author:** ![rlkoshak](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/rlkoshak/32/75251_2.png) [@rlkoshak](https://community.openhab.org/u/rlkoshak)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 2:26am UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/sendnotification-stop-working/32645/3 "2017-08-03T02:26:40Z")

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Actually, unless this has recently been fixed, you can’t use triggers like that with String Items. Right now I think it only works with Switch and Contacts, maybe Numbers.

I have a bunch of rules in place that will tell me when this gets fixed because it will simplify a lot of my rules.

It is supposed to work that way but is currently broken.

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**Author:** ![audioguru](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/audioguru/32/3092_2.png) [@audioguru](https://community.openhab.org/u/audioguru)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 1:29pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/sendnotification-stop-working/32645/4 "2017-08-03T13:29:40Z")

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That’s weird… it worked for about an afternoon…

I’m checking the openhab.log and my alarm.rules tells me:  
2017-08-03 09:25:06.447 [WARN] [el.core.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Configuration model ‘alarm.rules’ is either empty or cannot be parsed correctly!