[OBSOLETE] Xiaomi Sensors and Button (beta)

[veeceeoh (Keith G)]

@flyize

I just realized that the battery died in two of my temp/humidity sensors. I didn’t know because they still showed a status of ACTIVE in the IDE. Is there any way to fix that?

In the over 1.5 years I’ve been using Xiaomi / Aqara devices I’ve never had the batteries die, but I can confirm that their Status can be marked as “OFFLINE”, even with SmartThings’ Device Health feature turned off:

I have read reports of Device Health being unreliable, so I have it turned off.

Really the best way to know whether a Xiaomi / Aqara device has gone offline for any reason is to look at the time of the most recent battery percentage report.

All battery-powered Xiaomi / Aqara ZigBee devices check in with the hub every 50-60 minutes and send a battery voltage report at the same time. So I would suggest setting up a piston with logic that sends an alert if no battery percentage event has been generated by the device in over 2 or 3 hours.

If having trouble setting up a piston with that kind of logic, there is also a very nice customizable SmartApp which can send notifications based on time since the last XXXX event, or battery level, or temperature:

[OBSOLETE] Simple Device Viewer

I won’t be porting this SmartApp so it will stop working when the Groovy platform is retired. Allows you to easily see a list of information about your devices like battery percentages, temperatures, how long since last event, switch state, etc. Receive Push and/or SMS notifications based on temperature, battery level, and/or time since last event. New Dashboard Feature allows you to view all your device information using any web browser. See the Version 2.0 Release Notes for more information. It can automatically poll the devices at a specified interval. Turn Off All Lights and/or Switches with a push of a button. The first time you open the application, I recommend hitting Done as soon as you see the Setup screen because if you back out of the app instead of hitting Done, the app…

EDIT: It would be really helpful if you could check the events lists for the final battery voltages / percentages just before those sensor’s batteries died, and share those values.