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    Advice: Pay attention to "Low Battery"

    A few days ago, I noticed some of my motion sensors, door/window sensors and PalmPads had become erratic; some working 100% to others not at all.
    After re-starting HS, rebooting the computer and checking all the antenna connections, this morning I turned on detailed logging in ACRF2 and found unrecognized signals coming in every second drowning out almost everything else.

    The last rime this happened, it was a forgotten palmpad which had gone rogue. I started there, removing batteries to try and eliminate the noise. No luck.
    Next, the motion sensors... one at a time. Still nothing.
    Finally, I turned to the DS-10's. After removing the batteries from about half of them, I found the screamer. I'd ignored the low battery alarm some months ago. ACRF2 had tried to warn me about it, and several others recently. The DS10 was transmitting constantly even though it's indicator showed no activity.
    Had I heeded the battery warning in the first place (this calls for an event), I could have saved myself more than five hours of frustration and the time taken to re-code all the motion sensors and DS-10's I'd disabled in the process.

    Lesson learned: Always pay attention to those battery alarms.
    Real courage is not securing your Wi-Fi network.

    #2
    On that same note...

    I had installed a leak detector (DS10a with the hobby-boards) to monitor for an HVAC leak last year. Came home the other night and found that my HVAC condensor drain was clogged. The batteries in the leak detector were dead and I had a small puddle of water on the floor
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      #3
      i have low battery warnings in a oregon temp thc-138.. it is rogue i dont know where it is... haha wife probably put it in a drawer somewhere
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        #4
        Oregon sensors are another matter. I have a number of them that show good batteries, but regularly drop offline. I don't know if it's another unit causing the problem or what. It's very annoying, especially in that I use these to regulate my HVAC system.
        Real courage is not securing your Wi-Fi network.

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