Great, Thank you very much! Didn’t think about the outlet being a zigbee repeater.
My contact sensors sometimes just become deserted, I don’t know why but I’ll notice that one of my sensors will say closed when I know it isn’t, for example… and I’ll go around and find that a couple of them have stopped reporting, to which I can only fix by going to each sensor, opening it, pulling out the battery and putting it back in with the reset button pressed, then closing it again.
I’d love it if smartthings told me when these sensors stopped reporting, but I know that’s not how smartthings is designed. Still, has anybody written a smartapp for alerting the user when sensors haven’t checked in in awhile? It’s certainly a big hole in the security…
Yes there are a few. Simple device viewer is the only one that comes to mind at the moment.
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Has anyone experienced an issue with the motion sensor constantly detecting motion? I just had a motion sensor kill a battery in less than 24 hours. When I checked the history the sensor was reporting motion every minute for about 12 hours. The temperature being reported by the device actually went up 5 degrees during this time as well (no change to house temp). I reset the device and put in a new battery and it seems fine now. Also the motion sensor is less than 12 feet from the hub with no obstructions.
Is there anything else I should be looking for? I did purchase the motion sensor from Amazon and it was not purchased directly from Lowe’s. Is that a possible issue??
I have not had this issue with the Iris motion sensor or any others. I believe others have reported this issue with other zigbee motion sensors (SmartThings, …). If it is working now you should be good. I purchased 5 from amazon recently when they were cheap and the two I have installed are fine. It shouldn’t matter where you get them from. Sometimes stuff just doesn’t work. Amazon has a good return policy which will cost you nothing if you want to return outright or get a replacement.
Thanks for the information! I am still relatively new to this home automation stuff so I am kind of ignorant of this sort of thing.
I had one that fell from it’s temporary perch. I put it back. Little later I noticed it wasn’t detecting motion. When I grabbed it it was VERY hot. I pulled the battery and it was swelling up and blistering.
So for whatever reason something got stuck on or shorted out. I replaced the battery and it has worked fine since. Kinda odd.
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I started getting nervous returning stuff to Amazon after I read an article that they were banning customers for excessive returns. I imagine we all have a “profitability index” of some kind in Amazon’s system, and if we drop below a certain margin, we’re done.
But surely that’s got to be extremely rare… right?
I doubt that story was really true, or it was at least a mistake. If they really start banning people for returns, then I would stop shopping there.
I am an honest returner. If it’s broke, I tell them that and pay nothing to return. If I made a mistake or something, I pay the return shipping.
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I got 2 of the Lowe’s Iris contact sensors this weekend, deployed the custom handler and it worked great! Paired perfectly, worked perfectly, got them on sale. Love it! Used them on windows.
Heads-up. The contact sensors are on sale until tomorrow (11/16/16). $17.99
They are on sale online only but you can pay online and pick up in store. Also, this site can generate a $15 off coupon if you buy more than $50 worth: http://lowes-code.duckdns.org/
I bought a few of these and installed theme on the 13th. Today 5 days later, they show 88% battery, is this unusual?
Yeah, they aren’t real accurate either, just like the ST ones. But I’ve had ones stay at 100% for a day then drop to 88% for months.
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Has anyone used the new IRIS Smart Plug? https://www.lowes.com/pd/Iris-110-Volts-Volt-White-Iris-Smart-Plug/3735315?cm_mmc=display_Criteo--Unassigned--SmartHome-Products-_-3735315:Iris&kpid=3735315&CA_6C15C=320011480005708052
That’s the old version and doesn’t work with SmartThings, just with the 1st gen Lowes Iris hub.
Should these sensors be set as SmartSense Multi Sensor or SmartSense Open/Closed Sensor?
Or should I set them to something else?
Sorry I the Iris Gen 2 Sensors I should of memtions
These should have been discovered as an “SmartSense Open/Closed Sensor”. No need to change anything.
The new one is WiFi only and requires the IRIS cloud I believe. So probably not a good choice.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Iris-120-Volt-White-Smart-Plug-Works-with-Alexa/1000135207