HRS1 Hawking Technology Battery Polling

[GAZ]

Just installed a Hawking Technology HRS1 contact door switch.

Seems to to communicating fine with Homeseer, but battery is reporting status every minute. I have tried configuring the device to poll once a day (1,440 minutes) by taking batteries out and/or pressing switch on back of device before I send configuration request in Homeseer device status page with poll parameters.

No luck so far. Does anyone have any advice. Battery is draining fast and log is filling up.

[Rick Tinker]

Mine is set for 60 minutes, and the log shows it reporting every 60 minutes. Are you using HomeSeer 2.3.0.0?

[GAZ]

Homeseer is beta version 2.2.0.135, Installer shows 2.3.0.0. Not sure what the difference is. I have been playing around with HSTouch and needed the beta version for compatibility.

[Rick Tinker]

2.3 is greater than 2.2.anything - it is the released version, so you can move off the beta. HSTouch requires a specific 2.2 version OR GREATER, so you will be fine.

Make the change and re-program the sensor and see if that resolves the issue.

[GAZ]

Tink,

I downloaded and installed 2.3.0.0. I had thought I had the latest, but it appears that I just had the latest installer and not Homeseer.

I will need to pull the sensor off the garage door tomorrow and try to reconfigure. I will let you know if it works.

One question that I have for you, is that when I added the sensor to Homeseer I ended up with two devices. One is a "Z-Wave On/Off Sensor" and the other is a "Status Only" device that tracks the battery power. I assume this is correct? I also assume that I set the battery reporting interval on the "Z-Wave On/Off Sensor" device as the "Status Only" device does not appear to have any configuration options.

Thanks for the help.

[Rick Tinker]

After you install 2.3.0.0, you should delete the devices that you have, then go to the Z-Wave Controller Management page (/mnzw) and click on the Import Devices button. The reason is that it was in this release that we added support for these devices beyond what you got using the standard Z-Wave classes. The standard Z-Wave classes allowed HomeSeer to work with the devices in an acceptible way, but when we have specific knowledge of a device, then we key off of the manufacturer's identification in the device to enable special features. In this case, we create a device that says Open/Closed instead of On/Off, and we have one or two custom configuration options for the device. Allowing HS to re-create the devices will give you access to all of these new features.

[GAZ]

Tink,

I followed your advice and as a result I got the HRS1 to report to stop reporting battery level every minute. I set it to report once a day. I will know tomorrow on the interval, but according to the log, so far so good.

I do note a minor discrepancy however, in that I did not see the customized special features (open & closed) for the HRS1 device that you referenced, but I can work with using the zwave values for the device in programing events, etc so it is no big deal.

Thank you for the assistance.