Hi there, I had a set of 8 Econet Controls Z-wave battery controlled vents (air registers) running on a Veralite which I have now included into HA. These devices run on 2 AAAs, and are similar in design to the Keen Zigbee air vents which came along a couple of years later. The Econet devices are all basic Z-wave devices, not Z-wave plus, with no authentication as far as I know.
So I used the native HA Z-wave integration and had everything working but realized there was no battery information included on any device. So after many re-interviews without success I scrapped the native integration and tried JStoMQTT route, as I thought that might expose more properties/entities when including devices. But alas it still did not expose any battery data. For info the device in Vera was treated as a light, so you could set it on/off or to a percentage. That means the vent will open/close or open partially. Here’s the Z-wave JS UI reporting a device I added …
My old Veralite was able to report battery level from these devices, so I find it odd that these Z-wave add-ons (official and JSMqtt) don’t seem to be able to get this attribute from the device. As far as I know all battery powered devices expose a battery level attribute? Now I’m faced with devices just failing without knowing the battery is dead.
Anyone have any suggestions on this?