[ANSWERED]Battery level for secondary devices

The secondary devices for an Aeon Labs MultiSensor (temperature, humidity, or luminance) do not have a battery level, not even in Python. (Well, it's None which isn't useful.) Only the primary (motion) device does. How do I figure out the battery state of such a secondary device? Is there a way to find the "main" device corresponding to it? (I suppose I could scan all devices for a same-protocol, same-address device with a working batteryLevel, but that would be exceedingly hokey.)

BTW, is there a way to set up Indigo to trigger when any battery-powered device goes low on battery? Or do I have to make triggers for each one separately?

Cheers
-- perry

[matt (support)]

The next version (to be released today or tomorrow) will have a new API to retrieve all device IDs from a device group:

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idList = indigo.device.getGroupList(devIdOrInstance)

The argument can be any device ID in the group or any device instance in the group. The first item in the returned list is considered the main/root device and will have the battery level if it exists. So to get the battery level given any device ID in a group you can do something like:

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level = indigo.devices[indigo.device.getGroupList(devIdOrInstance)[0]].batteryLevel

In the future we might improve the semantics of accessing the main/root device in a group and/or share these base properties across all instances in a group, but for now the recommended approach is above.

There isn't currently a way to trigger off of any batteryLevel dropping below a threshold, but on my wish list is adding battery management functionality to Indigo which would include that along with lots of other goodies. No ETA, of course.

[matt (support)]

Version 6.0.8 is now available with the new API.

That was most fortuitous timing indeed. Thanks, and that new call works great.

Cheers
-- perry