Insteon Motion Sensor II devices battery reporting

[mlagase]

Hi,

I found a battery script here and found that the battery percentage does not show properly as it appears that Insteon plugin reports this in 4, 3, 2, 1 values instead of emitting a percentage value. Is there a way to create these devices using the battery percentage instead? If not, has anyone created an event/script that will send an email when a battery is low?

Mike

[mnsandler]

Create an event that uses the standard hs device triggers like the following

[mlagase]

Thanks, i found that after the fact and will see how it goes. I just setup a generic email stating that a battery is low and i should just go check it. Will need to figure out how to send the device name in the email so i know which one it is.

[mnsandler]

yah, i've looked for that before. i think you might need to create a unique event per device. HS does not get any info from the plugin about about device triggered. if you find something, please post something here

what i have done for similar situations is to use Replacement variables, and just display the status of all similar device values in the email body using replacement variables (see below)

http://help.homeseer.com/help/HS3/st...ent_variables1

[mnsandler]

Another thought,
one event, with multiple triggers for each battery you want to monitor (ORs between them). then the action is to run the Group Action which emails you all the various battery levels based on replacement variables