433 Mhz sensors, latest data received instead of latest change

Suggestion:

When you click on a 433 Mhz sensor to get the black info screen, and hover over the unit you get a time. This time shows when the sensor value last changed:

To me the information when the value changed last is more of an Insight thing. My view is that it would be much more useful to see the time when Homey last received data from the sensor, what ever value it was. This way the user can see that the sensor is alive and that Homey is communicating with it. 433 Mhz is by nature an unreliable protocol, so I think that the system should make it easy for the user to see that all is good.

The information when Homey last communicated with a sensor is in the system. If you go to “Apps”—>“Wireless Weather Sensors”—>“Configure” you will see this:

Note the time and the temperature. The first screen shot in this thread was created 3:52:02 and Homey shows 26.4°C 46 minutes ago. The second screen shot shows the same temperature at 3:53:21 which means that Homey recorded a sent data from the sensor. When writing this Homey shows 59 minutes ago and the app config page the current time.

As a user it’s impossible to differentiate if the sensor value has not changed during the last hour (or whatever time period Homey states), if the sensor has died or lost connection with Homey for some reason.

I would love to have the option to chose what time period Homey shows when I click on the sensor and get the black window. Or even better, that both times are displayed. Example:
Value last changed: 45 minutes.
Last data received: five seconds ago.

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I like your suggestion of showing the time since last updated instead of last changed. Note that this is a more generic approach by Homey: also sensor values of devices using other communication protocols work in this way. So it would make sense to harmonize that across all sensors, regardless of communication protocol.

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I have never really understood the reason for “time since latest change”…is there a use for that? I can’t see it… but I’m sure there is. :thinking: