How to get notified when battery for vision siren is low?

[alkorsi 1]

Hi all,

Today I had the following issue - in the module view of the HC2 my vision siren showed an almost full battery. And then while implementing a scene for it, I noticed that it isn´t working. I was not able to turn it on and after exchanging the batteries it worked again! So the battery indicator is not really reliable and I don´t know if the siren is still working or not!

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Do you have an idea how to check the device or to get notified if the battery is low? (I don´t want to turn on and of the siren manually every week(?!). Could this be checked by some coding or by a scene configuration - within the advanced configuration for the siren there is no default option to get notified if the battery is low as it is for fibaro devices!

Thanks and cheers,

alkorsi

[KristianO 15]

I guess you could create a VD to check all your battery devices and then run that device in a scene eg. one per hour/day.

--[[

%% properties

%% globals

--]]

local isBatteryOperated = "1"

local minbattLevel = 20 -- Alarm battery level

local i = 0

local maxNodeID = 250 -- Max no of devices

for i = 0, maxNodeID do

local type = fibaro:get (i, 'isBatteryOperated');

x , y = string.find (type, isBatteryOperated )

local batterylevel = tonumber(fibaro:getValue (i, 'batteryLevel'))

if x ~= nill and batterylevel ~= nill and (batterylevel <= minbattLevel or batterylevel == 255) then

local name = fibaro:getName(i)

fibaro:debug("Device "..i.."="..name.." bat. level="..batterylevel)

fibaro:call(2, "sendEmail", "Low battery on: "..name)

end

end