Anyone found anything in the UK? I keep looking at stuff from the US posters, and they are always finding kit for a few dollars in places like BestBuys. We could really do with some cheap, preferably Zigbee, and preferably temperature reporting door/window contact sensors on this side of the pond! …

Mine haven’t arrived yet. What sort of battery do they use?

CR2032, one of those big button ones, similar to what you find in watches or calculators etc

I’ve already had one battery die in less than a month. I’m hoping it is a one off though as the other 9 are all OK still.

With help from @kriskit I have created a working devicetype handler for the first orvibo contact sensors. I can share it once I get the fingerprint sorted, hopefully tonight. This will let us monitor the battery level of the orvibo contact sensors. This way at least you’ll know when the battery dr…

That’s brilliant - I have a few of the door sensors and would be happy to give your devicetype handler a test.

[image] [RELEASE] Orvibo Contact Sensor Community Created Device Types Continuing the discussion from Cost effective door/window sensors (UK) : Here’s a device type for the orvibo contact sensor. I’ve flagged as beta as I haven’t been able to figure out how to fingerprint …

my second battery just died on Friday :frowning: , so I’m only getting 7 days with it!!!. Am I the only unlucky individual here. I’ve have Waynes original Device Beta type associated with it.

Did you see the battery level go down? I’ve only replaced one battery so far and most are sitting between 100 and 80 after a month. The one I had to replace did not go down gradually and just died suddenly. I’m putting that down to a poor quality battery for the moment.

I got a notification that the battery level was down to 20% (due to your device type). It stayed like that for a day, and then died. However I noticed when I opened the door the green light would glow, so pressed the button again. It then showed 20% battery level (late Saturday evening), but by t…

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KellyDarren (Darren) April 29, 2016, 11:05pm 119

@a4refillpad sweet, sign me up as a tester. Thank you and @kriskit. This will be a handy feature.

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