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General Description
The purpose of this plug-in is to monitor the health of battery devices in HS3 and to enable triggering of alerts from one central Virtual Device so that events do not need to be reconfigured as battery devices are added or removed from your system.
When the plug-in is first run it creates a virtual device named ‘Health Root’ which is used to display and report on the status of all monitored devices as well as trigger events on configurable alerts. The plug-in can monitor the following conditions:
Awake – Is the device Waking Up / Active / Responding
Battery Level
Battery Discharge Rate
Battery Life – Age since batteries last replaced
The alerts and trigger levels are fully configurable as global parameters and can be overridden locally for individual devices.
In its simplest form, without any configuration, the plug-in will monitor Z-Wave non-listening battery devices that regularly wake-up. Monitoring virtual child devices are created each time a new device wakes up. Depending on the wake-up time period set for each device it will take some time after the plug-in is first started for all devices to be detected, so be patient. On repeated wakeups the sleep period is detected and battery levels are monitored. If the device fails to wake-up this will be reported in the status of the ‘health Root’ device so that events can be configured to warn of issues. Similarly the status will show battery alerts such as low level.
A simple event triggered by the status of the ‘Health Root’ device can alert you of issues with any monitored battery devices. The guide has example events for sending reports by Pushover message and email.
In addition to the above automatic detection of non-listening devices there are a number of different methods of monitoring. These can be used to monitor other types of battery devices and are not limited to Z-Wave.
Steve
The purpose of this plug-in is to monitor the health of battery devices in HS3 and to enable triggering of alerts from one central Virtual Device so that events do not need to be reconfigured as battery devices are added or removed from your system.
When the plug-in is first run it creates a virtual device named ‘Health Root’ which is used to display and report on the status of all monitored devices as well as trigger events on configurable alerts. The plug-in can monitor the following conditions:
Awake – Is the device Waking Up / Active / Responding
Battery Level
Battery Discharge Rate
Battery Life – Age since batteries last replaced
The alerts and trigger levels are fully configurable as global parameters and can be overridden locally for individual devices.
In its simplest form, without any configuration, the plug-in will monitor Z-Wave non-listening battery devices that regularly wake-up. Monitoring virtual child devices are created each time a new device wakes up. Depending on the wake-up time period set for each device it will take some time after the plug-in is first started for all devices to be detected, so be patient. On repeated wakeups the sleep period is detected and battery levels are monitored. If the device fails to wake-up this will be reported in the status of the ‘health Root’ device so that events can be configured to warn of issues. Similarly the status will show battery alerts such as low level.
A simple event triggered by the status of the ‘Health Root’ device can alert you of issues with any monitored battery devices. The guide has example events for sending reports by Pushover message and email.
In addition to the above automatic detection of non-listening devices there are a number of different methods of monitoring. These can be used to monitor other types of battery devices and are not limited to Z-Wave.
Steve
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