# How to get a notification or trigger when my goals are NOT beemergencies **URL:** \ **Category:** Tech\ **Created:** [September 26, 2019, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/how-to-get-a-notification-or-trigger-when-my-goals-are-not-beemergencies/5833 "2019-09-26T19:17:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lanthala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lanthala](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/lanthala)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/how-to-get-a-notification-or-trigger-when-my-goals-are-not-beemergencies/5833/1 "2019-09-26T19:17:29Z")
I’ve been trying to set up a system for reminding me when I have beemergencies before I go to bed, because I keep invalidly derailing because I’m forgetting to check things off that I’ve done 🤦‍♀️ I thought this would be easy: just hook up a smart plug with a nightlight to ifttt, so the nightlight only turns off when all my goals are no longer red. But the only relevant ifttt trigger is “trigger when a goal BECOMES a beemergency”, which doesn’t help me at all – that would just trigger every 2am. And I don’t see a way to get an email when my goals are filled in, only when they’re due, so I can’t use beeminder Zeno reminders for this. This seems like a problem that someone else has probably faced. Anyone have any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![apolyton](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/apolyton/32/1965_2.png) [@apolyton](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/apolyton)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2019, 1:37pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/how-to-get-a-notification-or-trigger-when-my-goals-are-not-beemergencies/5833/2 "2019-09-28T13:37:04Z")
Perhaps a meta-goal for “check all goals before going to bed” ? Where you have to enter 1 every day and it’s always on an emergency day. This is also perhaps a good place to advertise my “beeminder as a daily task list” hacks 🙂 [Beeminder as task list, Tampermonkey script](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-as-task-list-tampermonkey-script/5774) ---
**Author:** ![lanthala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lanthala](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/lanthala)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2019, 4:49pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/how-to-get-a-notification-or-trigger-when-my-goals-are-not-beemergencies/5833/3 "2019-09-28T16:49:39Z")
I suspect that’ll just end up as another goal I have to email to cancel illegit derails on 😉 what I’m hoping for is a technological solution that reminds me in the right place and time (upstairs, right before I go to bed) instead of the wrong place (downstairs on the computer). ---
**Author:** ![adamwolf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/adamwolf/32/484_2.png) [@adamwolf](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/adamwolf)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2019, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/how-to-get-a-notification-or-trigger-when-my-goals-are-not-beemergencies/5833/4 "2019-09-28T18:12:16Z")
I think this is something we can figure out. However, I don’t know what the solution is yet 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![narthur](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/narthur/32/5113_2.png) [@narthur](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/narthur)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 9:55am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/how-to-get-a-notification-or-trigger-when-my-goals-are-not-beemergencies/5833/5 "2019-10-01T09:55:47Z")
I haven’t gotten far at all yet, but I’m trying to solve the same problem here: > [@The Bee Pi Light](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/the-bee-pi-light/5790): > > Beeminder generously provided me the parts to build a Raspberry Pi Beeminder traffic light (thank you so much @mary && @dreev!) , provided I beemind the project and create resources for anyone else who would like to build one to be able to follow along, use my code, etc. I’ll be posting updates in this thread, and making sure I do that using this goal: So far I’ve pulled everything out of the box, plugged in the Pi, and realized I have to install Raspbian on a mini SD card before I can really… ---
**Author:** ![lanthala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lanthala](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/lanthala)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 4:26am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/how-to-get-a-notification-or-trigger-when-my-goals-are-not-beemergencies/5833/6 "2019-10-02T04:26:20Z")
Ah, I knew I had seen someone else trying this! I’ll be honest, I’m surprised it’s turning out to be this complicated. I’m currently considering some kind of per-goal set of IFTTT triggers to mark when goals that were in the red receive data, but that’s super kludgy and going to be a PITA to keep updated. ---
**Author:** ![adamwolf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/adamwolf/32/484_2.png) [@adamwolf](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/adamwolf)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 12:27pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/how-to-get-a-notification-or-trigger-when-my-goals-are-not-beemergencies/5833/7 "2019-10-02T12:27:38Z")
What’s the simplest thing here? A “had beemergencies but no longer do” trigger combined with a “there are beemergencies on at least one of my goals” trigger? ---
**Author:** ![lanthala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lanthala](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/lanthala)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 2:20pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/how-to-get-a-notification-or-trigger-when-my-goals-are-not-beemergencies/5833/8 "2019-10-02T14:20:29Z")
Yes, I think so. The latter already exists in ifttt, but the former does not, as far as I can tell.