Smartthings Arrival Sensor

[cowinger]

w.vuyk Wim, any chance of getting this to work in deCONZ and Jowihue? deCONZ sees it as a motion sensor but Jowihue sees it for what it is. Here is Jowihue info. Thanks

{
"config": {
"alert": "none",
"battery": 60,
"duration": 310,
"on": true,
"reachable": true
},
"ep": 1,
"etag": "3bd44993f4249038a23b2a8b1dbb0081",
"lastseen": "2021-08-16T15:09Z",
"manufacturername": "SmartThings",
"modelid": "tagv4",
"name": "Arrival Sensor",
"state": {
"lastupdated": "2021-08-16T15:06:03.555",
"presence": true
},
"swversion": "R860_#35",
"type": "ZHAPresence",
"uniqueid": "24:fd:5b:00:01:09:88:10-01-000f"
}

EDIT: My bad, looks like it works somewhat correctly in Jowihue! I changed the Duration time from 310 to 60 and it seems to go to Away for a while then resorts back to Home (Home and Away are my changes to the graphics).

Changed Duration back to 310 and it seems to stay on Away now. I read somewhere that this sensor has a 2 min. response time. Do you know anything about this? I am going to try 120 sec. and see what it does.

EDIT2: Not sure how long it took, wasn't timing it, but the arrival sensor went back to Home. I have it in an enclosed metal can. So that is not good. That will surely mess up any events.

[cowinger]

To all that might want to use the smartthings arrival sensor. They do come into jowihue but they really eat the battery. I saw once where someone put the insides of the sensor into a plastic battery cabinet that could hold 2 AA batteries and with a little soldering they were running a lot longer than with the button battery. Seems like a lot to do when there are now better ways.

[Vit]

I have two of these things, modified that is.
The mod was not that difficult to do. AA batteries last forever. I would not swear but I believe the batteries are older than my 2.5 year-old cars.

However, I did have a substantial number of false triggerings at the beginning.
Added some logic to ignore 'departures' unless there is a valid 'exit' event and 'arrivals' without a corresponding departure.

[w.vuyk]

Larry,

I had one tested and it worked allright, but not on a timely way. Coming home with the car could take 5 minutes for deCONZ to get a signal. For me the battery lasted three months or so. I guess it depends on the frequency of updates to send. Honestly, I stoppped using them (still have two unpacked here in a drawer) as all they really do is sending a signal every now and then, without direct reliability.

Wim

[cowinger]

Larry,

I had one tested and it worked allright, but not on a timely way. Coming home with the car could take 5 minutes for deCONZ to get a signal. For me the battery lasted three months or so. I guess it depends on the frequency of updates to send. Honestly, I stoppped using them (still have two unpacked here in a drawer) as all they really do is sending a signal every now and then, without direct reliability.

Wim

Yes I gave up on them too. They were eating batteries and were inconsistent on whether it thought it was away or home. I went to HSBuddy and that seems to work. Still messing with it. Thanks