Aeotec MultiSensor 6 reporting in battery mode

Configuration Z-Wave
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Hello!

I bought a Aetoc MultiSensor 6 (this is my first device) with the USB Z-Stick and I’ve questions regarding the Z-Wave configuration on the device.

I’m using the device in battery mode and I’ve some weird behaviors (but maybe my understanding is wrong). The device is only reporting metrics after a wake up (with the default wake up time and the parameters 101 and 111 at 3600).

That’s ok for me but I also want to use the threshold option to receive update as soon as possible when the temperature +2* or the humidity +10 for instance (like for the binary sensor). I’ve configured parameters 41/42/43 (thresholds) but it does not work (no metrics between hours)

I’m not sure to understand parameter 40: “Report Only on Thresholds”. I tried both values (true/false) but I can’t receive any thresholds too.

Does someone know what is the impact of this parameter? Also, is it possible to have the report every hour AND also thresholds metrics in battery mode?

Thank you very much for your help!

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faceing the same problem. I now changed to wake up intervals to 900 to get more accurate data.
the report on threshold is not working for me

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Faced similar issues. After 6 months trying I gave up and changed the setup to USB power and the senor works fine now.

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Hi,

The threshold function (parameter 40) is only here for save battery.
From what I understood, apart from the motion detector value, we can’t receive temperature/humidity/luminance/UV/battery values between wake-up moments.
If you set your wake-up to 600 (10 minutes) and automatic reports to 600 (parameter 111) for all values with threshold function enabled, every 10 minutes the multisensor will only send measurements wich reach configured threshold.

Regards,

Romain.

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Exactly. Thanks romain38. I reached this conclusion after several hours of testing. The threshold is checked only when the device is waken. It is only to save network bandwidth, nothing more. So I’ve disable all the thresholds options to send metrics every XX minutes.

If the device is power with USB, metrics are checked every 10 seconds (so it could be interesting in this situation to use the threshold parameters).

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thank you guys for the recap., I’ll tried to achieve it with wake up 900, but I guess I missed parameter 111, lets see if that will work.

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My case is:

I want my multisensor to only report temperature, I want it report every 10 minutes, on battery.

My settings are:

wake up time: 600

  • parameter 40: disabled (Report only on threshold )
  • parameter 41: It shows 10 (threshold temperature change by 1)
  • parameter 101: set to 16, only temperature
  • parameter 111: Set to 600

My problem is, it only report if temperature has change by 1!

I want it to report every 10 minutes even if the temperature has not changed, or if it has change only by 0,1. I thought since parameter 40 is set to “disabled”, it wont care about the threshold.

Any solutions?

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Setting wake up and parameter 111 to 900 secs (15 mins) worked like a charm for me. Thanks everyone for the information. Now, need to see how that affects battery life.