Hello, I have a Zigbee switch from the brand NOUS (similar to Sonoff switches) that switches the power outlet for my robotic lawnmower. For no apparent reason, it switches off at random moments. I have to manually put it back to “on”. In the history, I see “power saving mode off”. There is no routine linked to this switch. Does anyone have an idea what the cause might be?
First question we will ask - do you use Alexa? If yes, check if Hunches is enabled and creating Routines in Alexa. If enabled, consider disabling Hunches and remove any Alexa Routines it may have created.
If the Alexa suggestion above doesn’t work, you could create a routine that, if the switch turns off, will immediately turn it back on (eliminates the immediate issue) and sends you a notification (may help track down the triggering event with less tedious scrolling through ST history).
I don’t use Alexa, I do use Google Assistant (or Gemini or what it’s called these days). Thanks for the suggestion to create a routine to turn it back on. I’ll try this…
I don’t recognise the economy mode attribute. What is the actual device and what driver is it using?
To me it sounds like the device itself has some kind of economy mode in which it turns itself completely off under certain conditions. For example it might turn itself completely off instead of staying in what it thinks is standby for more than fifteen minutes.
That doesn’t make sense.
The fingerprint of this device is not in the official SmartThings Zigbee Switch Edge Driver. The generic fingerprint points to a very basic profile. There’s no power saving mode (Spaarstand) anywhere in the driver as far as I can see.
_TZ3000_qaabwu5c can’t be found anywhere in the community edge drivers.
Nothing like power saving mode even in ZHA/Z2M.
Did you use any other driver than the SmartThings Zigbee Switch driver?
Hmm, I have these quite some time and unlike the similar Sonoff , I don’t think I had to flash it. I think it worked just out of the box with the standard Zigbee handler.
I took a look at another switch; this one does have a routine that switches it on and off. Here too, the indication “energy saving mode” appears when it switches off or on. So I don’t think it has to do with a power setting, but rather that it is being switched off by some trigger. Could it perhaps be due to limited Zigbee range? The switch is located in the basement, far from the hub and other Zigbee devices. I’ll buy some Zigbee sockets to expand the network…