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Low battery notification added in #20 doesn't appear to be reliable -- in fact I've never received a notification even though several batteries have since been replaced. It relies on using the "_low_battery_level" entity provided by the Z-Wave devices however it appears that the battery dies before the device identifies it as low. For example, the front door sensor died at 62% battery level.
Use a different approach to identifying low batteries. Something that would allow setting a different threshold per device would be nice.
A list of devices that have experienced low battery levels that never triggered their respective "low battery level" entities:
Device
Min Battery Level
Notes
Ecolink Door & Window Sensor
62%
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First Alert Smoke & CO Alarm
78%
Will stay at 78% for several days. The device will start chirping of low battery as soon as it drops to 77% (typically early morning hours when everyone's asleep), even though the low battery level sensor isn't triggered.
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Merged the change for the smoke alarms since I was able to monitor their levels when they depleted enough to start chirping. Haven't been able to notice it with the Ecolink sensors yet. Will create additional PRs as I come across other devices.
Low battery notification added in #20 doesn't appear to be reliable -- in fact I've never received a notification even though several batteries have since been replaced. It relies on using the "_low_battery_level" entity provided by the Z-Wave devices however it appears that the battery dies before the device identifies it as low. For example, the front door sensor died at 62% battery level.
Use a different approach to identifying low batteries. Something that would allow setting a different threshold per device would be nice.
A list of devices that have experienced low battery levels that never triggered their respective "low battery level" entities:
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: