tosa
July 17, 2014, 1:12pm
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Well, since I didn’t get any answers to my device type coding questions, I’ve gone ahead and posted my updates to the Everspring Flood (Utilitech Water Leak) sensor here:
Hope this might help others … I’ve updated the Everspring Flood Sensor (aka Utilitech Water Leak Sensor). For whatever reason, I was not getting reliable battery reporting, and if/when it did, it was hard to see in the iPhone app. So being new to SmartThings, and being new to Groovy programming, I figured I’d use this as a self-training opportunity. This is one of the biggest reasons I chose SmartThings – opportunities to get my hands dirty and not necessarily have to wait for someone else to always ‘fix’ things.
Anyway, I’ve updated the battery handling, added colored battery levels to the UI for the phone app, and have also added user configurable wake up interval. Device default is 1 hr wake ups. But you can now change it (I was thinking longer intervals for even better battery life). …