Monoprice Door Sensors & Motion Sensors Available again

mattjfrank · October 4, 2014, 3:56pm

Monoprice motion sensor log view when removing cover

 10:53:07 AM: debug Parse returned [[descriptionText:Unhandled: Office Motion & Temperature: NotificationReport(event: 3, eventParameter: [], eventParametersLength: 0, notificationStatus: 255, notificationType: 7, reserved61: 0, sequence: false, v1AlarmLevel: 255, v1AlarmType: 7, zensorNetSourceNodeId: 0), displayed:false, isStateChange:false, linkText:Office Motion & Temperature]]

here is another one

Parse returned [[descriptionText:Unhandled: Master Bedroom Motion & Temperature: NotificationReport(event: 2, eventParameter: [], eventParametersLength: 0, notificationStatus: 255, notificationType: 7, reserved61: 0, sequence: false, v1AlarmLevel: 255, v1AlarmType: 7, zensorNetSourceNodeId: 0), displayed:false, isStateChange:false, linkText:Master Bedroom Motion & Temperature]]

greg · October 5, 2014, 11:47pm

I can’t get the battery to show up in the logs using the aeon device type, even though in things view it shows 100%. So I guess it’s a lost cause.

florianz · October 7, 2014, 6:24pm

Yeah, it doesn’t seem to report the battery level. Bummer - sorry guys.

Definitely let me know if you notice changes to the firmware on devices that ship in the future. I’d love to have this feature.

kranasian · November 26, 2014, 10:17am

@florianz: I’ve bought a bunch of Monoprice Motion sensors and I springboarded Device Type development using your code for these sensors.

So I’m a total noob with just a day of groovy/smartthings experience so any feedback would be appreciated. I was able to figure out a few things and sent you a pull request to the heavily modified version that adds the following:

Ability to set the really annoying 3-minute default for the Inactivity Trigger to fire. The real minimum is 1 minute.
Added a battery tile and battery updating during waking up at least 24 hours.

If anybody is interested to try it out, the latest code is on:

github.com

kranasian/SmartDevices/blob/motion/MonopriceMotion.groovy

/**
 *  Monoprice Motion Sensor
 *
 *  Capabilities: Motion Sensor, Temperature Measurement, Battery Indicator
 *
 *  Notes: For the Inactivity Timeout to update or Battery level (only for the first time),
 *    you have to open the Motion Sensor and leave it open for a few seconds and then close it.
 *    This triggers the forced Wake up so that the settings can take effect immediately.
 *
 *  Author: FlorianZ,Kranasian
 *  Date: 2014-11-26
 */
preferences {
    input("inactivityTimeout", "number", title: "Inactivity Timeout",
          description: "Number of minutes after movement is gone before its reported inactive by the sensor.")
}

metadata {
    definition (name: "Monoprice Motion Sensor", author: "florianz") {
        capability "Battery"

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How to get it to work:

Once you update the code, the Inactivity Timer setting is inside the “Preferences” tile. Its blank by default (which will use 1 minute).
After you’ve set the preference, to make each motion sensor get the new setting immediately, you have to:
Open the motion sensor.
Wait until the red light steadily lights up and add a few seconds to that.
And close it.
If its successful, battery status should show up on the tiles and of course inactivity trigger should be what you set it is.

If it doesn’t work, feel free to send me logs as that code is heavily logged AOTM.
Hope it works for you!

mattjfrank · November 27, 2014, 4:28am

I’m very hopeful this reports battery, that would be awesome. I’ve updated my code. I have 5 of these devices. Have you found anyway to get it to update temperatures more often? It seem to need a drastic change else it only reports every 12 to 24 hours.

acastal · November 27, 2014, 5:12pm

I think it reports temp changes only and in degrees celcius. Try putting one in the fridge and see if it reports more often. If there is not a whole degree celcius change then no update.

kranasian · November 27, 2014, 5:13pm

I actually have no qualms in the temperature readings… But then again, i don’t check temperature that often.
I think to save power it only checks ever so often, which hopefully would be tweakable… unfortunately I haven’t seen that in any documentation I could get my hands on.

Btw, the battery works for me.

acastal · November 27, 2014, 10:09pm

Does yours say anything other that 100%?

kranasian · November 27, 2014, 11:50pm

Currently its 100% for me. Coz I just bought them a few weeks back so the batteries are brand new.
Or the hardware is just faking it by constantly saying 100%. I guess your battery is pretty old?

acastal · November 28, 2014, 1:12am

All have only ever read 100 so I wonder if it really reporting properly. Maybe if others switch we will find out for sure.

rayzurbock · November 28, 2014, 1:34am

Fantastic, this worked and my Monoprice Motion sensors are now showing battery. Of my 3 monoprice sensors, 2 show 100% and the most active of the 3 shows 83%.

I’ll add that once I closed the cover in step 2.3 and the led turned off, the Activity report for the device showed the battery level in the app; however before the battery tile would show up, I had to kill the SmartThings app and relaunch it.

Woot! Woot! I’m getting battery status now! Thanks @kranasian @florianz

johnnyd16 · November 28, 2014, 8:50pm

@kranasian - First Happy Thanksgiving and thanks for your posting. I’m a newbie at adding code to the ide console and are not a programmer. but the code and your instructions helped me setup a new device type for my hub.

I have two monoprice motion sensors. By adding the provided device type. immediately issues were solved.

On my android phone the temperature would not show up in the “Things” category. It now does!
The battery level also did not show up. It now does! One of the batteries is a first time install so there is a possibility it is 100%. The other has been in use for 6 months now, it also says 100%

Another indicator that something else needs to be tweaked on my settings is that i also have four (4) monoprice door and window sensors that have been in use for ~6 months and they too say the battery is at 100%

Thanks for your time and help. Much appreciated.

jd

kranasian · November 28, 2014, 11:55pm

Glad to hear that it works for you! And the battery reporting actually reports a number other than 100%…

kranasian · November 28, 2014, 11:58pm

I bought 3 Monoprice Open/Close sensors, so I’ll get what @florianz did and see what is still missing there. Last time I checked it looked pretty solid functionality already.

What’s wrong with the Open/Close sensor?

johnnyd16 · November 29, 2014, 2:13am

Thanks - The monoprice open/close door sensors along with the monroprice motion sensors are all reporting battery level @ 100% The door sensors and one of the motion sensor’s are over 6 months old so my my guess is the battery level should be less then 100% by now?

Thanks again,
jd

thrash99er · November 29, 2014, 4:31am

I can’t get the motion sensors to open/close sensors to report their battery correctly at all. They still say 100% all the time.

kranasian · November 30, 2014, 6:09pm

I see. I’ll take a look sometime this week. But it might be a hardware limitation, so we’ll just have to see. I have one that’s a month old and has been ‘open’ the whole time so it should have non-100% battery.

greg · December 14, 2014, 5:38pm

I updated my device type to this one. The one minute timeout works great thanks! However, I’m still showing 100% battery which can’t be true. I’m also not seeing battery reporting in the log at all.

rayzurbock · December 27, 2014, 2:58am

@kranasian Just a quick update. It’s been a month since my last update and my Monoprice motion sensor that said 83% battery still says 83% battery… The other 2 Monoprice motion sensors that said 100% still say 100%. 2 of these are in high traffic areas (1 83% battery, 1 100% battery) and the third (100% battery) is in an ultra low traffic area. I realize this may be a hardware issue beyond your control, just making a report.

kranasian · December 27, 2014, 5:31pm

Thanks for the update! So far mine has been 100% also. I don’t think it drops in 1% increments, since voltage drops at this granularity would be hard. So i’m just hoping to it actually drops to lower than 20%.

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