Is someone has been able to get correct battery level for Fibaro ZWave devices ?? I have a smoke sensor and PIR sensor (eye) and both always report 100% battery level in HA Is it a missing capability in HA/OpenZWave or Fibaro devices not reporting that thing ??
I use the Fibaro motion sensor, door sensor and smoke detector. All these devices show 100% for a long time, but after months of use this will go down to ~40% within 2 weeks. And around the 40% they will shutdown. So it isnât a nice curve, but you will get a warning when they start to go.
@MisterGlass May you please confirm which device from Fibaro you have exactly as my PIR sensor is always 100% battery in HA whatever battery full or dead
I have the Fibaro FGMS-001 ZW5 Motion Sensor with Z-Wave Plus Multisensor. I added the device with the âAdd Node Secureâ button in Configuration/Z-wave menu
In my configuration.yaml I created a template sensor. You can also test this by pasting the code in the templates under Developer tools. (replace livingroom_motion with your device name)
I have the same problem with a bunch of Aeotec Multisensor 6âs, they read 100% even when theyâre dead and I havenât realised they havenât woken up for 2 weeks.
I happened to run into your post searching for the same. I am using Openhab rather than HA, but I am seeing exactly the same. My other - non Fibaro - ZWave devices report battery status ok, but the 4 Fibaro motion sensors all report 100%. I just noticed that my living room temp was reporting a value that could not be correct, and only then found out that the battery was actually emptyâŚ
I think this is a Fibaro issue. These guys do not have the best SW development quality record if you ask me. I tried for a few years to get my Fibaro HC2 to work properly but eventually gave up and turned to OpenHab.
Have you been able to do any further trouble-shooting?
From my investigation it is a Fibaro issue as I checked with Openzwave guys and itâs supposed to handle correctly battery level ! I donât know how to check sw version of my Fibaro devices in HA but problem is that itâs impossible to update fibaro devices firmware without a Fibaro controler which makes the process very boring when not using their controlers