For comparison: When a car comes within a mile of our house, the dogs bark about it. If they turn into our driveway, they shift cadence and tone to let us know that. If someone comes all the way down the driveway to the point they can be seen, it gets very loud.

Then we go deal with whoever it is before the hounds climb the fence and eat them.

This alert system works in all weather conditions, without electricity; and no computers are involved anywhere. The neighbors can hear the howl (they're a mile off but senior hound is a bluetick), but otherwise no one else is notified. I seriously doubt any clouds take cognizance of these events.

The debugging process is similarly endless, tho.