beckwith
November 12, 2014, 9:26pm
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While you’re digging around the battery object, do you think it is possible to list all the battery levels of all the devices? This has always been one of my pet peeves:
Because of the low power needs of some of these newer devices and the convenience of wireless, it seems more and more devices use batteries. However, I have some observations and concerns.
Not all devices are reporting battery status. I’m not sure if this is a SmartThings issue or the device. How do you go about diagnosing this?
What is the “standard” for a battery alarm. I received a push notification from one device when it reached 10% and another at 1%. And how do we control this delivery. To me low battery is less important than a smoke alarm or water leak. I would rather send it as SMS than push or some other option like e-mail.
With my 54 devices, it gets rather difficult managing which needs its battery changed and when. It would be nice to have a screen that lists all the batter…