Hi. I bought a few SNZB-04 contact sensors after researching here in the forum, but I end up getting frustrated with it... I managed to pair it and have it working with the driver created by markus here .
However, I see that the devices never send any check-in or regular reporting. The consequence of this seems to be that, in occasions when the door/window the device is monitoring is not used for a few days (for example we were away from home for 3 days) then the sensors lose contact with Hubitat and I have to pair them again. This happened to both of my devices.
I have a couple of these and I'm not having any issues using Markus's driver.
That being said, there is a system driver for this device. Have you tried that one? It may work better, I don't know.
EDIT: As an aside, which version of the driver are you using? Mine is * driver : v1.0.1.1123
I have a WC Piston that checks the presence of these devices every 3 hours.
I see these go 'not present' and back 'present' again quite regularly.
They do always come back though.
Hi, Sorry for the late reply.
After creating this thread I paired up again the device and I am monitoring to see if it will fall off again. So far it has been good! I noticed in the device's event list a number of "not present counter" while the window hasn't been open/closed but once I open/close the window it still managed to report back.
That's nice but I still feel I can't trust the device to report back if the window remain shut for a week or so. time will tell... (FYI, in case it matters, the device communicates to the hub by using a zigbee smart socket as relay).
Also, since this device doesn't send any check-in message (differently of the Aqara contact sensor, I have one of those and they have been perfect from they one). I think there is no monitoring app or rule machine that I can implement to give me a heads up if the sensor becomes unresponsive.
Going a bit of topic, I've been trying to find reliable cheap devices so I know what to go for when I move to a bigger place but so far I've been somewhat disappointed with Sonoff (I also have some temperature sensors of them and they also have been unreliable at the beginning and now I am monitoring them). Please let me know if you guys have suggestions of other cheap zigbee/z-wave brands that work well with Hubitat.
@bobbles I have Marcus driver version number Version: v1.0.1.1123b
I guess mine is Beta and yours isn't? Maybe I could try to update it again, in case I have more problems....
No! Tks for pointing out. Do you think it is okay if I just install this driver and switch the current device to use it? Or should I remove + unpair the device and do everything from scratch to use this Tuya driver?
