lflorack
November 17, 2019, 5:28pm
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TonyHolmes:
Even smarter than this would be the ability to tell ST to notify the user when a device falls below N% battery life.
Even better would be if ST knows that this false positive condition exists, they could fix the error condition to behave in a more predictable way?
Battery reporting is difficult and inaccurate at best. But, something is better than nothing so, here are three solutions that give you a heads-up when battery levels reach a pre-set level. There are very likely more than these, but they’re the ones I use:
Low Battery Notification with Customizable Alerts
On request from many users we’ve built a high customizable low battery notification SmartApp with a built in dashboard.
There are some of low battery notifications apps on the community but on request from folks we have custom built this app to include the following features:
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2017-06-08 - Update: Added support for new Ask Alexa features: Message Queue, message expiration, and message overwriting.
2017-03-11 - Update: Added the ability to be notified if your Hub goes offline / online.
2017-03-08 - Update: Added support for SmartThings “Health Check” capability. If the device supports it, Device Monitor will look at the online/offline status of the device. This can be more accurate than looking at events sent by the device.
2016-09-06 - Update: Added support for Ask Alexa .
2016-08-22 - Update: I have made a few changes. I am using a more accurate event detection, battery levels can be checked, and you can be notified when devices come back online. Check post 63 for more info.
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This app checks the selected devices to determine if they are communicatin…
I won’t be porting this SmartApp so it will stop working when the Groovy platform is retired.
Allows you to easily see a list of information about your devices like battery percentages, temperatures, how long since last event, switch state, etc.
Receive Push and/or SMS notifications based on temperature, battery level, and/or time since last event.
New Dashboard Feature allows you to view all your device information using any web browser. See the Version 2.0 Release Notes for more information.
It can automatically poll the devices at a specified interval.
Turn Off All Lights and/or Switches with a push of a button.
The first time you open the application, I recommend hitting Done as soon as you see the Setup screen because if you back out of the app instead of hitting Done, the app…