[RELEASE] Low Battery Notification with Customizable Alert/Warning/Monitor, Configurable Thresholds and Device Monitoring Alerts

[RBoy (www.rboyapps.com - Making SmartThings Easy!)]

@gferrari the purpose of this SmartApp is not to monitor all events, just battery events.

Having said that in the next release 01.02.00 we’ve added the code required to monitor battery events and notify the user if the devices don’t report battery events for XX (configurable) days.

However these inputs options for notifying if devices doesn’t report battery levels for X days will be disabled by default to avoid confusion for users for the reasons given above:

[RELEASE] Low Battery Notification with Customizable Alert/Warning/Monitor, Configurable Thresholds and Device Monitoring Alerts

Just to let you know that we’ve been experimenting with this feature. Found some interesting results, Not all devices report battery levels, sometimes never (e.g. some sensors only report 100% and 0%) Battery reporting is very device handler dependent, e.g. with some stock Device handlers they doesn’t specify the attribute isStateChanged: true, so when the device reports the same battery level ST internally doesn’t report it to the SmartApp as the value hasn’t changed. E.g. a sensor who’s battery level is 100% for 15 days in a row even though the device handler will “report” the battery as 100% every 6 hours, ST won’t report it to the SmartApp since the value hasn’t changed and the device handler didn’t specify isStateChanged: true. So all in while it’s a good idea, it can very misleadi…

If you want you can enable the battery level not reported features by uncommenting the 4 lines (166 to 169) where it says UNCOMMENT THE NEXT 4 LINES TO ENABLE BATTERY REPORT MONITORING.

Like I said the purpose of this SmartApp is to track and report battery usage, you can modify as described above to track battery events, but please note that we cannot support custom versions of the SmartApp.