anto79-ops Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 Good day, Just wondering when Control4 is enabled on the Qolsys IQ2 panel, is the sensor battery level exposed? Clearly sensor state is exposed, but not sure about battery level of the sensor, i.e. battery is low for example. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyknight Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 No. Not as such. While the panel may pass the error on in the general interface (not sure) - you can't for example program off a low battery state on a zone/sensor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anto79-ops Posted February 14, 2023 Author Share Posted February 14, 2023 ah, that's too bad. Yes, it does show a panel error on the general interface when a sensor battery is low or dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyknight Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 To be fair, I don't know if the panel even sends this info out beyond the 'text' version for the interface to begin with - I'd honestly be surprised if it did though (pleasantly so). If it does, it should theoretically be possible for a driver to be created to capture that info and send it on.Now - if you're super dedicated to get this, one could arguably see if the panel sends the info in an error message, if the driver could grab that string, then you could create a variable if statement to compare the error message with tests you've done for each sensor, then create programming for each sensor to send you a message....(the paid variable driver would help here)....of course you'd have to get some dead batteries and do each sensor one by one, then do a few checks if multiple low battery messages come though individually or a as group and how that could be handled ..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anto79-ops Posted February 15, 2023 Author Share Posted February 15, 2023 @Cyknight thanks for sharing your thoughts! It seems this may not be easy to do? Here's why im interested: I'm using a code here: https://github.com/XaF/qolsysgw that connects locally to my Qolsys Panel, and dumps sensor information to my MQTT broker, which then I use in Home Assistant for home automations. Works amazingly well, and fast, uses Control4 for communications. It has sensor state, tamper status, and maybe other attributes of the sensor but it does NOT have any battery information. Maybe a few months ago, I has to replace my glass break sensor batteries because the panel told me that (it showed up as error/issue on the panel), so I don't know creating a driver might be able to allow battery information via Control4 I can do some testing...but definitely not coding...lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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