Increasing battery life of z-wave sensors

[freshcoast]

@peterxian

Another thing you can do to save battery life on Z-wave sensors is increase the sleep time between wake-up reporting — some sensors wake-up ever hour or two by default, but I find every 12 or 24 hours is sufficient for door sensors. You might need zwave-js-ui to set the wake-up parameter however.

You can set the wake up interval in HA, however it’s a little easier in ZUI.

How to update Zwave wake up parameter for Living connect device

You can use a service call. For a GUI method, you can use Z-Wave JS UI. service: zwave_js.set_value data: command_class: "132" property: wakeUpInterval value: 3600 target: entity_id: climate.z_wave_thermostat 3600 is the wake up interval in seconds. You’ll have to wait for the device to wake up in the next interval, or manually wake up, until the new setting is applied.