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March 21, 2017, 3:07am
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@SBDOBRESCU I know this is an old thread, but I have the exact same problem with just one of my Multi-Sensor.
f74f3724-77f6-4504-9615-79a8d5f64903 10:58:26 AM: debug lowBatteryHandler: Kitchen Window battery is 70%
It never stops! Did anyone come up with a solution for this?
That looks legit. Your battery level is changing. Mine wasn’t. There may be a report as often as the level changes (Depending on device*) and regularly if it doesn’t, but not as frequent as five minutes, because that would be inefficient for battery operated devices.
*some devices report level changes in stages. @JDRoberts may have more info on this. Not sure if there is a tag or an article on the Wiki about it.
Varies by model. For example, a lot of smoke detectors only report once a week. But in any case, battery operated devices generally report in tiers:
Many battery-powered " sleepy" devices reports battery levels in tiers. The exact tiers will vary by device.
For most contact sensors, the tier that is reported as “88%” really means “above 87% and below 100%”
So as soon as battery level drops below 100%, even to 99%, it will likely be reported by SmartThings as 88%, although the exact buckets vary by DTH/Edge Driver.
What you need to watch is the trend. If it drops 10% in one day. That was probably just a tier drop. You can even bounce back-and-forth by 10% because it’s right at the threshold of a tier.
But if it’s dropping 10% every week, that’s a different problem.
If you’ve had any device off-line for a while, it’s really common for it to come back in the next lower tier, which looks like a 10% drop but might’ve been a drop of ha…
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