Anyone else with Linear/Go Control Garage openers getting the dreaded 'low battery' notification?

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I have 2 garage door openers. One works just fine. The other constantly gives me 'low battery' notifications. This happened in Wink and continues to happen in Hubitat. I have seen threads of other frustrated users on smartthings and OEM integration threads but nobody seems to have an answer. It seems this status persists even after battery changes and even swapping sensors which makes me think its 'cached' in the door opener device itself but I don't see any 'factory reset' instructions for this; just the standard zwave pairing.

I don't see that its causing any actual problems (other than filling up my hubitat event log) but thought i'd check with the experts here if you knew of any way to clear the code from the system?

Maybe issue a direct statement to the device API to set the alert to 0? Seems like from reading this is a binary 1/0 status once the opener detects a low battery threshold and not a true reading of the actual battery.

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Nope. both of mine are working as expected.

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I have the same issue for one of my two openers. I don't have an answer for it....

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does it cause any issues with using them or just annoying?

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Just annoying, I don't use that garage door much, I mostly have a good night rule that checks if they are left open, and will shut them.

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awesome thanks. i wouldn't have even known it was still sending that message if i hadn't looked at the event viewer. i may just learn to live with it until someone figures out a way to 'tickle' the API of the linear control.

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I expect this is a driver bug.

I have found it only reports battery low, and not battery 'OK'. On some other platforms (ST) the driver had a battery reset 'button' in the device, so after you changed the battery you reset the notification, and then wait for the next low notification....

Just my .02$