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@krlaframboise I have run into a small problem. When I first set up the Simple Device Viewer I choose my devices and batteries. And all devices showed, but I then realized that four devices have no batteries and are on USB power. So I went back into my app config and uncheck those four devices. I clicked done and expected not to see those devices listed under batteries on the web interface, but they are still there showing 99% battery.
Except for lights, the field you use to originally select the device from has no effect on which screens it shows up on. By default if the device handler supports the battery capability, it will automatically appear on the battery screen.
To prevent those devices from appearing on the battery screen, go into the “Display Settings” screen and select those devices from the “Exclude these devices from the Batteries page” field.
Kevin, why did you make it so obvious I was looking everywhere but there? Stupid me!
@krlaframboise I’ve had a nightmare today on my smarthome where something has caused my 100+ zigbee devices to die all at the same time. Think there’s some bug in the smartapp that make it continually alert me that devices have hit the threshold. So every 5 minutes I’m getting a hundred alerts. I have the system to repeat alert me every 6 hours but its looking like 6 minutes… can’t tell for sure because I’m getting so many alerts I can’t see the wood for the trees!
I’m disabling notifications right now to allow me some space to fix my smart (dumb) home. Just thought I’d let you know. Cheers.
What do you have the “Enter maximum number of notification to receive within 5 minutes” field set to?
I have 50 in there. Just an random number I put in. Do you think that’s causing the repeated notifications because it restricted the number of alerts as I’ve exceeded the threshold?
If you have it set to 50 then it would send 50 notifications every 5 minutes until all the notifications have been sent once.
Once it’s finished sending them once, it should wait the number of hours you’ve set the reminder to before sending any more. I just checked the code and it’s using hours not minutes so that’s not the problem.
It’s odd as that’s not quite what I’m seeing. I get them yes in roughly 5 minute intervals but had it non-stop every five minutes for around 5 hours later when I arrived home to sort. My poor phone and watch was struggling to keep up! LOL
I’ll do some testing and see if I can replicate what you’re seeing.
Thanks, might be a difficult scenario to replicate. Hopefully I don’t encounter this soon. Took me over 3 hours to rejoin all my devices that dropped off.
Just wondered when you check ‘all devices last event’ do you always see that any contact sensors are very recent? Ike within the last 5 minutes ?
How often are contact sensors communicated with from smart things hub ?
I’m now getting issues where we arrive home and enter the house before the alarm discarms - very annoying not sure if this is related to using the simple device viewer ? I have the polling setting at 1440 minutes …
Every contact sensor is different, but almost all of them sleep to conserve battery and usually only wake up every 2-12 hours. The polling feature only polls devices that support the Polling Capability and devices that sleep can’t be polled.
The polling feature is only meant for problem devices that don’t regularly check in on their own so I don’t recommend using it unless you have to. You’re polling interval is set to once a day so it shouldn’t cause problems, but if you’re going to keep that feature enabled I recommend using the polling exclude field to select all the devices that check in regularly on their own.
The last event check is something completely separate from polling and it reads the last event times from the database so there’s no way it could be effecting your contact sensors.
Open the device in the IDE and see what SmartThings is showing for a last activity time.Also check to see if the status is “ONLINE” or “ACTIVE”.
I just released version 2.5 which has a couple of new features that utilize the new Health Monitoring capability.
Display Online/Offline Status:
This is a new setting located in the Dashboard Settings section.
When this setting is enabled the dashboard will display either “(online)” or “(offline)” next to each of the devices that support the new Health Monitoring capability.
The Health Monitoring capability is somewhat new and it hasn’t been documented yet so you’ll most likely have a lot of devices that don’t support it and won’t have a status next to them.
Override Last Event Threshold for Offline Devices:
This is a new setting that’s located in the Threshold Settings section.
When this setting is enabled and you’re using Last Event Notifications, the notifications will be sent for devices as soon as they go offline.
This setting is ignored for devices that don’t support the Health Monitoring capability and notifications will still be sent for all devices that exceed the last Event Threshold, even if they still show as online.
Enabling this setting will also change the icon shown on the last event screens to the warning symbol for devices that go offline.
Great update. I noticed that when you have a lot of devices that the “display settings” menu now times out. Not sure if it was happening before as I’ve not been in that menu for some time. By removing a lot of devices, restores the menu’s function.
This may be more of a question for @ady624…
Is there any way to add this online/offline status check into CoRE? I have ZLL smart bulbs hooked up to dumb outlets, and this would be a really easy way to make use of the dumb switch’s state for automation (ie. turn off the thermostat if the bulbs are offline for 30 minutes).
It would also help me mitigate the issue I have with bulbs falling off the network, and then turning on when they rejoin.
I can’t open that menu either.