Philio 3-in-1 sensor refresh times

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I have several of these:

I am having a hard time understanding if/when the temperature & illumination sensors are refreshing. From reading the manual in the above URL, I think I am gathering that it refrehes the temp & light sensors every 6 hours by default, and the fastest refresh you can get is every 30 minutes.

It says that to adjust from the default, you adjust settings # 12 & 13 (Auto Report Illumination Time & Auto Report Temperature Time), but I cannot find these parameters in UI07. When pairing these 3-in-1 sensors, it creates 4 devices:

1 - the sensor as a whole
2 - door open/closed
3 - temp sensor
4 - light sensor

I have checked #1 and and 3/4 for the settings I’d like to adjust and cannot find them. Can someone help? We have a new baby and I’m trying hard to get our home’s temp system figured out, as in which rooms are which temperatures at which times based on the t-stat and various space heaters.

Thanks!

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That manual makes my head hurt. It’s awful! What you need to do is set configuration parameters on the device in Vera. To do that:

Click on the device → Device Options. If there is not already an empty Configuration settings variable field click Add Configuration settings to add one to the list. To do what you asked, you need to enter the following configuration variables in the appropriate field.
Variable Data Size Desired Value
6 1 Byte Dec 64 – Send report if temperature changes by 3 degrees. Bit 6 set to 1.
12 1 Byte Dec 1 – Send illumination report every 30 minutes. Not needed for temp.
13 1 Byte Dec 1 – Send temperature report every 30 minutes.

Then click Save Changes and then Save.

Other parameters are listed in the chart at the end of the manual. References to setting bits need to have the bit number set Least Significant Bit(LSB) first and converted to decimal for the parameter’s desired value setting.

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Thank you! I had read the manual and my head was spinning as well, what you say makes sense. Screen shot attached for what I did. My understanding is now that it will send the temp every 30 minutes, or if it changes by 3 degrees F. Thank you for your help!

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Your setup appears to be correct. But, notice that the Current Value fields are empty. This means that though you’ve configured Vera with the parameters, Vera hasn’t yet written them to the device.

This is common with battery operated devices as Vera can’t configure them until they wake up. Either wait a long while or manually trigger the devices wakeup(see manual) and then in Vera settings tab click “configure node right now”.

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Thanks! It appears it woke up and populated the values, but for some reason, on all 3 of my sensors, the 6 variable set to 70 when I put it in as 64.

Weird.

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As per the manual:
Bit1 = “Disable PIR integrate illumination” I think you have to turn off Illumination Parameter 4 to turn this off.
Bit2 = “Reserved, always 1”

So bits 1,2, and 6 are on.

Binary             Decimal

0100 0110 70