Domoticz

1. Battery levels are only shown in the “Setup/Devices” page and for zwave nodes that produce multiple devices, the same information is reported across all these devices.
2. The system wide “Battery Low Level” notification system within Domoticz (in “Setup/Settings/Other”) does not allow for different levels of trigger depending on devices, while it is my experience that some devices can still operate for long with say 20% of battery level, while others will shortly stop after reporting a battery level of 50%.
3. The evolution of battery level over time cannot be logged for analysis of battery life patterns per devices

1. It polls at regular intervals a given Domoticz system (it can be the system on which the plugin is running, but also another one in the same local network) for z-wave nodes and creates/updates a Domoticz device for each z-wave node to show the node’s battery level
2. Each of these Domoticz devices representing a battery operated z-wave node will allow:
   1. An easy to read display of the current battery level
   2. Logging over time like for any Domoticz sensor
   3. The definition of custom battery level notifications or events for each specific z-wave node
   4. as a bonus, a dynamic icon will display the battery level in 4 colors (green if >75%, yellow if 50 to 75%, orange if 25 to 50% and red if below 25%). Icons are from https://wpclipart.com/index.html , many thanks to them for these public domain graphics.

cd ~/domoticz/plugins/BatteryLevel
git reset --hard
git pull --force
sudo chmod +x plugin.py

Egregius wrote:Yes, battery reports are a pain now.
You convinced me to start with Python plugins, so yours is the first one active on my system.
Just noticed some errors in the logfile:

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2017-05-12 11:53:12.069 Error: (Battery) 'onMessage' failed 'KeyError'.
2017-05-12 11:53:12.070 Error: (Battery) ----> Line 225 in /home/pi/domoticz/plugins/BatteryLevel/plugin.py, function onMessage
2017-05-12 11:53:12.070 Error: (Battery) ----> Line 104 in /home/pi/domoticz/plugins/BatteryLevel/plugin.py, function onMessage
2017-05-12 11:53:12.070 Error: (Battery) ----> Line 190 in /home/pi/domoticz/plugins/BatteryLevel/plugin.py, function scanDevices
2017-05-12 11:53:12.070 Error: (Battery) ----> Line 204 in /home/pi/domoticz/plugins/BatteryLevel/plugin.py, function UpdateDevice

9 'Battery' devices were created, alltough I have 19 battery powered devices...

Egregius wrote:You checked the device table? You have to add them as used yourself there.
Just did a reboot, 3 more devices were created. 7 to go

Logread wrote:@Egregius, @ bdormael,

Would you mind replacing the existing plugin.py with the attached one (obviously please rename to 'plugin.py' as I had to change the extension to allow posting) ?
plugin.py.txt
Definitely an issue associated with specific devices in your setup. There is an improved error handling at the point where you are currently seeing errors and a logging of the device(s) that raise the error. We can then hopefully understand what's wrong with the plugin's handling of these devices

Please do let me know the outcome...

Thanks !

2017-05-12 15:10:39.646 Error: (Battery) Error processing device idx = 907 for node = 9
2017-05-12 15:10:39.647 Error: (Battery) Error processing device idx = 968 for node = 0
2017-05-12 15:10:39.647 Error: (Battery) Error processing device idx = 1007 for node = 36

G3rard wrote:@Logread, installed it and it's looking very nice.
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How does the script check the value for the battery? Does it use one of the devices or does it use the value the Openzwave config is showing?