Everspring motion detector SP103 and battery level 255

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The log below (B = battery level, A = current time - last wakeup) suggests that a battery level of 255 is equivalent to empty batteries. Empty batteries were replaced on < 2010-11-21 14:10:50 (third line of log) with less than half-full batteries. Right now, the corresponding battery icon on the GUI is green …

2010-11-21 12:08:57 1290337737 B 255,A226130
2010-11-21 12:45:00 1290339900 B 255,A228293
2010-11-21 14:10:50 1290345050 B 100,A233443
2010-11-21 14:22:38 1290345758 B 100,A234151
2010-11-21 14:47:12 1290347232 B 100,A235625
2010-11-21 14:55:14 1290347714 B 100,A   419
2010-11-21 16:23:40 1290353020 B 100,A   211
2010-11-21 16:33:09 1290353589 B 100,A   780
2010-11-24 09:47:20 1290588440 B  50,A   401
2010-11-24 14:33:00 1290605580 B  50,A  2889
2010-11-24 20:58:36 1290628716 B  30,A   308
2010-11-26 15:03:36 1290780216 B  20,A  1102
2010-11-26 18:19:27 1290791967 B  30,A     7
2010-11-26 23:44:22 1290811462 B  10,A  1130
2010-11-27 03:00:00 1290823200 B 255,A  3658
2010-11-27 14:38:58 1290865138 B  30,A  3185
2010-11-27 19:16:52 1290881812 B  20,A  3317
2010-11-27 23:15:49 1290896149 B  20,A  2924
2010-11-28 03:00:00 1290909600 B 255,A  1657
2010-11-28 12:41:46 1290944506 B 255,A 29197
2010-11-28 15:38:54 1290955134 B 255,A   148
2010-11-28 18:49:43 1290966583 B 255,A  2409
2010-11-28 21:41:46 1290976906 B 255,A  7220
2010-11-29 03:00:00 1290996000 B 255,A  4225
2010-11-29 22:15:03 1291065303 B 255,A 73528
2010-11-30 03:00:00 1291082400 B 255,A 90625
2010-12-01 03:00:00 1291168800 B 255,A177025
2010-12-01 12:47:41 1291204061 B 255,A212286
2010-12-01 14:34:04 1291210444 B 255,A218669
2010-12-02 03:00:00 1291255200 B 255,A263425
2010-12-02 09:52:33 1291279953 B 255,A288178
2010-12-02 21:09:46 1291320586 B 255,A328811
2010-12-02 22:36:59 1291325819 B 255,A334044
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As you know we discussed this on the other side and I asked for a change to make 255 = 0
My experience is that 255 shows up in the UI at <30% but im curious as to what happened between
2010-11-27 03:00:00 & 2010-11-27 14:38:58 where 10 is reported prior to 255 but then jumps back up to 30 after?
Plus, you only got one week out of the new batteries?

JOD.

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More odd battery behavior…

One of my 3 kwikset locks sounded a bit sluggish tonight when I got home from work; after cycling it via the dashboard a couple of times it failed to operate. I then tried to poll it as the status got out of sync, and whilst I was doing this I noticed the battery indicator jumped to nearly empty despite the fact that it was showing 90% the other day! When I checked the advanced tab it was still showing 90% and it was only after pressing the dashboard refresh button it changed to 10%

It seems that its been discharging rapidly for a few weeks as I had a problem with the door alignment and the lock was struggling to lock; now although I’ve largely fixed this, I’m amazed though that Vera never updated it recently with the correct battery status! It seems to only do this if you manually poll it… odd considering there is a default poll interval of about 3 hours i think.

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@JOD

Battery levels are not monotonically decreasing. My HSM100s show the same behaviour.

The ‘new’ batteries were less than half-full because I wanted to have dead batteries as soon as possible. :wink: