Quieting down Sengled Plug

iridris · January 7, 2023, 2:58pm

I have a few Sengled Zigbee plugs (E1C-NB7) that are quite chatty. It looks like it is the power monitoring that is sending updates pretty much every second, which is way more than I need. I’ve tried adjusting some of the reporting intervals in Zigbee2MQTT, but I haven’t had any luck with the frequency of the updates changing. I’m guessing I’m not setting the right attribute, or I’m setting it wrong.

The latest settings I tried to set:
Cluster: seMetering
Attribute: instantaneousDemand
Min rep interval: 10
Max rep interval: 3600
Min rep change: 20

Does anyone know which reporting attributes I should be adjusting to get these plugs to calm down?

Example logs:

info 2023-01-07 09:36:52MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/Desk Plug', payload '{"energy":220.16,"last_seen":"2023-01-07T09:36:54-05:00","linkquality":32,"power":145.5,"state":"ON"}'
info 2023-01-07 09:36:53MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/Desk Plug', payload '{"energy":220.16,"last_seen":"2023-01-07T09:36:55-05:00","linkquality":32,"power":159.9,"state":"ON"}'
info 2023-01-07 09:36:55MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/Desk Plug', payload '{"energy":220.16,"last_seen":"2023-01-07T09:36:57-05:00","linkquality":29,"power":159.9,"state":"ON"}'
info 2023-01-07 09:36:57MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/Desk Plug', payload '{"energy":220.16,"last_seen":"2023-01-07T09:36:59-05:00","linkquality":32,"power":159.9,"state":"ON"}'
info 2023-01-07 09:36:59MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/Desk Plug', payload '{"energy":220.16,"last_seen":"2023-01-07T09:37:01-05:00","linkquality":36,"power":159.9,"state":"ON"}'
info 2023-01-07 09:37:02MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/Desk Plug', payload '{"energy":220.16,"last_seen":"2023-01-07T09:37:04-05:00","linkquality":32,"power":159.9,"state":"ON"}'
info 2023-01-07 09:37:03MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/Desk Plug', payload '{"energy":220.16,"last_seen":"2023-01-07T09:37:05-05:00","linkquality":29,"power":143.3,"state":"ON"}'
info 2023-01-07 09:37:04MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/Desk Plug', payload '{"energy":220.16,"last_seen":"2023-01-07T09:37:06-05:00","linkquality":29,"power":143.3,"state":"ON"}'
info 2023-01-07 09:37:07MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/Desk Plug', payload '{"energy":220.16,"last_seen":"2023-01-07T09:37:09-05:00","linkquality":29,"power":143.3,"state":"ON"}'
info 2023-01-07 09:37:09MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/Desk Plug', payload '{"energy":220.16,"last_seen":"2023-01-07T09:37:11-05:00","linkquality":25,"power":143.3,"state":"ON"}'
info 2023-01-07 09:37:12MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/Desk Plug', payload '{"energy":220.16,"last_seen":"2023-01-07T09:37:14-05:00","linkquality":29,"power":143.3,"state":"ON"}'
info 2023-01-07 09:37:13MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/Desk Plug', payload '{"energy":220.16,"last_seen":"2023-01-07T09:37:15-05:00","linkquality":29,"power":145.5,"state":"ON"}'
info 2023-01-07 09:37:14MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/Desk Plug', payload '{"energy":220.16,"last_seen":"2023-01-07T09:37:16-05:00","linkquality":29,"power":145.5,"state":"ON"}'
info 2023-01-07 09:37:17MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/Desk Plug', payload '{"energy":220.16,"last_seen":"2023-01-07T09:37:19-05:00","linkquality":32,"power":145.5,"state":"ON"}'
info 2023-01-07 09:37:19MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/Desk Plug', payload '{"energy":220.16,"last_seen":"2023-01-07T09:37:21-05:00","linkquality":32,"power":145.5,"state":"ON"}'
info 2023-01-07 09:37:22MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/Desk Plug', payload '{"energy":220.16,"last_seen":"2023-01-07T09:37:24-05:00","linkquality":32,"power":145.5,"state":"ON"}'
info 2023-01-07 09:37:23MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/Desk Plug', payload '{"energy":220.16,"last_seen":"2023-01-07T09:37:25-05:00","linkquality":29,"power":144.8,"state":"ON"}'
info 2023-01-07 09:37:24MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/Desk Plug', payload '{"energy":220.16,"last_seen":"2023-01-07T09:37:26-05:00","linkquality":32,"power":144.8,"state":"ON"}'
info 2023-01-07 09:37:27MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/Desk Plug', payload '{"energy":220.16,"last_seen":"2023-01-07T09:37:29-05:00","linkquality":32,"power":144.8,"state":"ON"}'
info 2023-01-07 09:37:29MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/Desk Plug', payload '{"energy":220.16,"last_seen":"2023-01-07T09:37:32-05:00","linkquality":32,"power":144.8,"state":"ON"}'

iridris · January 14, 2023, 9:09pm

I finally got some time to dig through debug logs to find the right settings to adjust. Setting the following has significantly reduced the number of messages from these plugs:

Cluster: seMetering
Attribute: currentSummDelivered
Min rep interval: 60
Max rep interval: 3600
Min rep change: 20

kylepyke · December 7, 2023, 7:00am

I’m having a similar issue, but when I request the attribute, I get “Value: 109893” as a response.

How do I set the Min/Max rep interval as you’ve shown here?

iridris · December 12, 2023, 7:02pm

I set mine using Zigbee2MQTT, so I’m not sure how to set these using ZHA as you appear to be.

Here’s what it looks like for me in Zigbee2MQTT:

kylepyke · December 13, 2023, 3:43am

Thanks! I might be switching to z2m soon.