Hello… I’m nearing the end of getting the house set up. It’s over 90 individual sensors/switches and should settle out at 125. One thing I’m already anticipating is a need to monitor/refresh batteries. With 10 door/window sensors and 8 motion detectors (+4 misc sensors) all on CR123A batteries, th…

You know that waking up a device to check battery status uses up batteries, right? You shouldn’t have to do this, most sensors should report a low battery on their own. Then you just subscribe to that event and use it to trigger some notification in time to schedule replacement. Not sure if there …

This one works well for me: [image] Battery issues Devices & Integrations I created a SmartApp that will show battery levels for all devices on a single screen. It’s not the prettiest view, but you can see everything at once. I have a few ideas to make it cleaner that I’l…

Thanks folks. Trying the smart app now @beckwith . @JDRoberts I have the sensors a couple of levels down on my dashboard. They live there to feed some automated processes. Even pinging 1x/day to see it in one shot would be useful to get a single dash to see any issues. Thanks!

If you run ActiON you get all the battery levels on the screen.

Trying that out as well. Thanks!

Look in the Shared Apps in the IDE. I recall seeing at least 2 apps and I am using one of them called Low Battery Alert.

Hi @frisch , I use 2 SmartApps. It doesn’t matter if the device is zwave or zigbee: (shared apps in the IDE) BatteryMonitor doesn’t notify you, but it does list every battery powered device and the current level. I use this one a lot. Here’s a copy of the SmartApp code I copied: https://raw.gith…

Thanks! This is all good stuff. I know re: IDE… suggestion perhaps for @Ben to put on the train schedule (hint / wink)… I usually hit Google with a site:github.com at the end, but that’s not perfect. The main thing I was looking for, which there were a couple of good suggestions, was the alerting. …

[image] johnconstantelo: BatteryMonitor doesn’t notify you, but it does list every battery powered device and the current level. I use this one a lot. I changed BatteryMonitor several months ago to nag about low batteries at a set time daily. I found that I would forget that I got a low bat…

Hi I have this app installed but I show 3 batteries with error or no status, one of them is the Monoprice sensor. I got the link for this app off of that thread so i found it kind of strange that it isn’t report. The other is a Aeon Door-Window sensor, and the last is the Ecolink Tilt, is there an…

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