Indigo Domotics

I just had to replace the batteries in my outside OS temp sensor, and of course had to change the ID in the device config dialog. I noticed that since doing that, the "batteryLevel" state that used to be there is now gone. Using 1.6.3 - is there a newer version that I missed that had added it back?

Never mind - just figured out that it is still there, just not showing in the client UI's Custom States tile - we don't show it because it's what we use to represent the batteryLevel property of a device. A custom device that uses batteryLevel needs to set the SupportsBatteryLevel property on a device.

Next question: what is the range for batteryLevel on Oregon Scientific temp sensors? I replaced batteries yesterday when it showed 10 (and was clearly not working). It's now showing 10 again with new batteries, so I'm a bit confused...

Hi Jay,

AFAIK the Oregon sensors use one bit as a "battery low" bit, and that would be the only battery information available. (The same bit should trigger the battery icon in the sensor itself.) In RFXtrx I believe that 10 is when the bit is unset and 1 is when it is set. Those are the only values in RFXtrx for battery level (not so useful as one would like).

I have also seen that it never sets the bit to 1 before the sensor shuts down...

I could be wrong, but this is how I remember it from when I did some research about this some time ago and also posted in this forum, but I can't find my post now for some reason...

Peter

This document might shed some light on the protocol.

http://wmrx00.sourceforge.net/Arduino/OregonScientific-RF-Protocols.pdf


Peter

Hi Jay,

Can you explain me how the 'SupportsBatteryLevel' work and what the idea is?
I know I'm lazy and don't have the patience to try to find it. Sorry!

Thanks, Robert.

Hi Robert,

Take a look at this forum thread. I think it will get you started. Basically, once you device that property Indigo will automatically add the battery level state, which your plugin can then update for devices it owns.