Captain
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Anyway to know sensor battery levels before system notification?
Murphy's law is always around, whether it be computers, cars, or a SS3 system. My wife and I were away for one evening and the battery on a motion sensor was reported low hours after we left. No issue as we were back the next morning and I could replace it.
Later this year we will be on vacation for two weeks and would like to be proactive and replace batteries that are even at 25% of life. Is there a way to have support poll the sensors and report back ones that are a certain %? Willing to replace a dozen or two if necessary for an uneventful two weeks.
dlpsr
1.5K Messages
9 days ago
Maybe, but not currently with SS3 that I'm aware of.
The batteries are pulled into the Simplisafe Home Assistant integration.
And creates a binary sensor which my low battery integration should grab and send me a message and adds it to the to-do list integration, if it goes to not normal.
Perhaps, faster than SS notifications. Unknown.
It's my understanding that when a lithium battery has had it, they fail to flat, fairly rapidly.
http://data.energizer.com/pdfs/lithiumcoin_appman.pdf
Unlike open system sensors ie; Aqara Zigbee etc., which tracks in percentage.
I just replace all lithium every couple years for rarely used and for often used, once per year or so.
Inner garage door opens very often & lasted about 14 months before SS sent a message. Garage window, ❄️🥶, about the same amount of time.
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simplisafe_admin
Community Admin
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981 Messages
9 days ago
Hi @captain11,
Unfortunately, our Support agents are not able to pull a live reading of a sensor's battery life to see its battery percentage.
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