I am using a (aquara) magnet door sensor and a (Tuya) rain/solar sensor.
While the door-sensor is simply working, without any problems the rain sensor is acting up.
Installation of the rain sensor was simple, but I got a signal “rain” (dry/wet") and one sensor “open/close”. The “solar” sensor is not important to me, so i don’t care too much. The open/close signal does not seem to show any indication of charging or not.
The battery status is also reported, and it seems to be well charging.
I simply wanted to to check if it is raining in my open window.
The problem is, that the sensor looses connection evey few days and is unresponsive then. The only way to get it back up in the network is with re-binding.
I have already changed the physical location. It is now about 3-4m away from the ZigBee hub. The other door-sensor is about 7-8meters away and working just flawless.
Is there anything I can do to improve this, or is the sensor-hardware simply defect?
The nice thing on this sensor is that it does not need to change batteries, as it is solar powered.
But a sensor that is not working reliably is also not acceptable…
I have the same problem. Connection was active max 8h. no new data after that. then I tried to reconnect the device from scratch…now it doesn’t connect.
Regular double glass. I should say that the distance from the router to the device is about 1m, so I’m hoping a double glass is not a big interference.
However, when it was inside there were no apparent disconnections for two days in a row… I now placed it outside again.
I’d like to create an automation to send me alerts when the device becomes unavailable.
Using this trigger, I hope it would work:
triggers:
- trigger: state
entity_id:
- binary_sensor.solar_rain_sensor_rain
to: Unavailable, Unknown