Motion Sensor - Low Battery alert/check

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Motion Sensor - Low Battery alert/check

For the Indigo device details of the Insteon Motion Sensor, I see there is a 'batteryLevel' attribute.. All of my motion sensors show 'None' for this attribute.. Is this attribute only set for the newer model of the Insteon Motion Sensor.. BTW I have the older model '2842-222'

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Re: Motion Sensor - Low Battery alert/check

Insteon sensors don't report actually battery levels so they will all show None. Just about ever other battery powered sensor does so that's why the property is there.

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Sun Aug 27, 2017 2:09 pm
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Re: Motion Sensor - Low Battery alert/check

I just set up some triggers to look for the low battery message from my Insteon Motion Sensors - are you saying that will not work :?:

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Re: Motion Sensor - Low Battery alert/check

No that should work, but it is just a "battery is low" message that the module sends out. There is no battery level (percentage) sent, so Indigo doesn't update its batteryLevel UI.

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Re: Motion Sensor - Low Battery alert/check

Thx :D

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Re: Motion Sensor - Low Battery alert/check

So I also had mis-interpreted the 'batteryLevel' vs 'low battery alert' discussion.. Thought that I wouldn't be able to detect a low battery for Insteon Motion sensors. However, one of the triggers I had setup a while back finally triggered.. Very cool.

My follow-on question.. So far this 'low battery' trigger fired just once since yesterday.. How often would you expect this alert to fire if I haven't changed the battery?

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Re: Motion Sensor - Low Battery alert/check

If I recall correctly, it might be sent once every 24 hours or so. I think there have been problems with it not being sent multiple times though. In general the battery level reporting on Z-Wave modules and low-level messages on INSTEON haven't been as reliable as I would like.

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