'wrong' battery status of Fibaro door sensor after 7.1?

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Sat Nov 25, 2017 12:01 am
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'wrong' battery status of Fibaro door sensor after 7.1?

Hi,
I have upgraded to 7.1.0 recently. After that I had to re-sync all my Fibaro door sensors (FGK-10x). They are all working fine now. However, all of them now report a battery status of 100%, without having replaced the batteries at the re-sync. This is too good to be true, as they tend to eat up the battery quite a bit. Is the new version possibly parsing a wrong value?
Thanks,
Andreas

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Sat Nov 25, 2017 3:34 am
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Re: 'wrong' battery status of Fibaro door sensor after 7.1?

Can you turn on Zwave debug or my Zwave Watcher Plugin pointing at this node, then copy paste the log when a battery status is received?


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Sun Nov 26, 2017 1:21 am
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Re: 'wrong' battery status of Fibaro door sensor after 7.1?

Here you go
26.11.2017, 08:09:24
Z-Wave Watcher Debug Raw command sent (Node 11): 01 11 00 13 0B 0A 98 80 1C 73 AF E8 78 62 C5 75 25 3C 7F (True)
Z-Wave Watcher Debug Raw command received (Node 11): 01 08 00 04 00 0B 02 98 40 22
Z-Wave Watcher Debug Raw command sent (Node 11): 01 09 00 13 0B 02 80 02 25 3D 76 (True)
Z-Wave Watcher Debug Raw command received (Node 11): 01 08 00 04 00 0B 02 84 07 FF
Z-Wave received "011 - Haustür" status update battery level 100%
Z-Wave Watcher Debug Raw command received (Node 11): 01 1C 00 04 00 0B 16 98 81 C6 4C 8F 32 EA CB 8B 68 42 7F D6 1C 4D 4B B7 06 D2 7F DB 7B 5B
Z-Wave Watcher Debug Raw command received (Node 11): 01 09 00 04 00 0B 03 80 03 64 1D
Z-Wave Watcher Debug Raw command sent (Node 11): 01 09 00 13 0B 02 98 40 25 3E 2F (True)
Z-Wave Watcher Debug Raw command sent (Node 11): 01 1D 00 13 0B 16 98 81 98 99 92 2A 6E 6C C8 46 D7 FE 6D A4 D4 F0 E3 2D E5 55 54 19 24 3F 2C (True)

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Sun Nov 26, 2017 1:37 am
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Re: 'wrong' battery status of Fibaro door sensor after 7.1?

Unfortunately the Fibaro is reporting 100% so that’s what Indigo is reporting.

The 7th block of code there says .... 80 03 64 ... which is Battery Report: 100 (64 in Hex is 100 in Decimal)


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Sun Nov 26, 2017 10:51 am
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Re: 'wrong' battery status of Fibaro door sensor after 7.1?

Battery level reporting can be wildly inaccurate (and flat out wrong) from some modules. It seems to be just a really buggy area of the firmware/hardware for a lot of manufactures.

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Sun Nov 26, 2017 1:24 pm
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Re: 'wrong' battery status of Fibaro door sensor after 7.1?

ok - thanks. I guess I will find out about empty batteries the old fashioned way then ;)

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Sun Nov 26, 2017 4:24 pm
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Re: 'wrong' battery status of Fibaro door sensor after 7.1?

I make good use of the Timed Devices plugin for this.

I think it’s a lifetime timer, set to 12 hours each.

Whenever it sees anything from the Sensor - motion, Battery update or wakeup - the timer resets.

If it gets to zero, there’s been no activity in 12 hours (or whatever’s appropriate for each Sensor).


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