I’ve been seeing this happen more frequently upon new releases where the battery value either never updates or just sticks at some point when it didn’t use to:
- Wallmotes used to report batteries but now just always say 0%
- I have a Yale door lock that just always says 27%, for the first time I thought this was fixed because it dropped to 15% one day and the next to 0%, but I put in new batteries and it’s back to saying 27%
- I have an Ecolink motion sensor that started reporting 0% battery yesterday so I put a brand new lithium battery in, still says 0% even though it’s been triggered a number of times - this was after the fact that when I went to change the battery it triggered so it wasn’t really dead but I replaced it anyway because it had been a while
All of these devices (and a few more) have been working fine in HA until they weren’t. I’ve tried removing and re-adding them to Z-Wave early on and it made no difference (Wallmotes) but haven’t tried it again since and am wondering if something about batteries is being updated in the Z-Wave JS system and slowly rendering all battery reporting useless unless you remove and re-add - just a guess. I’ve been hesitant to just try that again because not only is it a pain in the butt to do, but in the case of a Yale lock it’s a downright nightmare.
Is my Z-Wave JS just haunted? 