I'm in the middle of troubleshooting some zigbee issues and came across something interesting. One device I'm fighting with I'm using the "Generic Zigbee Motion Sensor (no temp)" driver.
After resetting the device it'll work for a bit then seems to stop. When it quits working, I'll look at the device page and the "Type *" is still set to the correct driver, but is red. Just hiting save turns it blue, and the device seems to work for a bit again.
I'm not sure if this is part of the isssue or just some other unrelated weird quirk I found.
What is the device? Maybe other people have used it and can contribute there experience with it.
Also, you could try switching to the temp reporting driver and disable temp reporting in case it’s an issue with the no temp driver. Unlikely, since I believe @mike.maxwell said they’re identical except for a difference in battery reporting, but nothing to lose.
Btw, that does seem strange.
I actually played around with the driver awhile back trying to get battery reporting right. I forget who it was but one of the staff folks added a fingerprint to the driver awhile back for me.
I just cross posted this separate type turning red thing over in the built in driver forum.
Got a sonoff motion sensor doing the same thing now too.
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I think I was causing this. It seems to happen with any device page, if you refresh your browser window (F5) while looking at a device, it makes the Type go red. Not sure if that's causing any issues or not however.
I'm starting to lean towards this being unrelated to my zigbee issues.
Been dealing with some Sinope outlets and seeing the same red. As I recall if I SAVE on that Driver screen it goes away....but given what I have been dealing with I have wondered if that red type is telling me something.
I can't find this topic now, but there was some issue in the past with overlapping text on the device detail page if the driver did something odd in preferences, maybe an "Enum" (dropdown) preference with no selected option? This cause overlap in some of the fields in the Device Information section then, from what I recall. I'm not sure if this was ever addressed at the platform level (a driver certainly could on its own--or a user, assuming there's a logical option to select and you have something without any selection currently), or even if it's the same issue, but it's possible. Maybe someone with the right search terms can find the topic I'm talking about...
In any case, I'd assume this is just a display issue and shouldn't have any effect on your selected driver.
