I am new to Homey and struggling my way through flows.
I have a number of generic zigbee temperature sensors associated with the rooms they are sited in. These are very basic sensors and only update infrequently. I want to get them to report every 15 mins whether there has been a change or not.
Does anyone know if this is even possible
Many thanks
Do you mean that they are not connected via an app on Homey? Thus as a generic Zigbee device?
Changing device settings (if possible at all), like reporting intervals, normally requires an app (through) which configuration of the settings is made available.
Also, many T&H sensors have a built-in reporting interval that is often based on a minimum change threshold. E.g. new humidity values are only reported if the change is more than x percent.
If the device tile’s settings does not contain any options related to the reporting interval, and there is no app available for your sensor brand/model, then you will likely not be able to make any changes to the reporting interval.
The only way I could get these into Homey was via the Homey app ‘Universal Tuya Zigbee app’. There’s no card with this type of action but I was hoping if someone had found a way of forcing it
Thanks for the information
What’s the purpose if I may ask? Just curious as I don’t see it.
I mean, when a room is around 20° for an hour, why would you need three updates reporting 20°?
My guessumption is, most sensors are event driven, like, when some value changes past a threshold > send update;
mostly in order to extend battery life.
If you want to keep an eye on (network) availability, there’s a nice Homeyscript you can use:
Eventually I wanted to go onto automate a system where if the sensor temperature differed from the tado radiator temperature displayed by +/- 1.5 degrees then send me a notification.
This is a way to accomplish that, Gareth:
It needs a timer to prevent it from multiple notifications.
Very many thanks Peter. I haven’t got on this level of flows yet but this will be a lesson for me.
No problem, Gareth.
I agree it looks quite advanced, but it’s basically just a sum, which compares a value [tagA] with the value of [tagB] minus or plus 1.5
