Excessive battery status events from Ubolt z-wave lock

I have a Ubolt z-wave door lock (the one without fingerprint entry) paired to hubitat as a "generic z-wave lock" - unfortunately, there is no custom driver. The lock itself works fine - I just send lock and unlock commands to it. However, it is merrily chattering away to the device logs by reporting battery status at a brisk pace of one every 5 minutes and 5.6 seconds!!! See the attached event and log entries for the device. I figure this can't be a good thing for its battery life.

I have contacted Ubolt customer service to see if either their cloud servers or lock firmware could be causing this problem. They have logged my support request but haven't reported back yet. Ubolt does have a wifi android app for the lock. The app doesn't have any settings about battery status. I have since uninstalled the app to make sure that it was not causing the problem.

Does anyone have any similar experiences or possible insight into what might be causing this battery status reporting frenzy? I'm trying to narrow down what might be triggering the lock to report its battery status to hubitat. I don't seem to see any exposed lock settings and I don't see any HE settings that seem to relate to this problem.

I also disabled any other services provided by apps installed in HE that might conceivably be involved. Here are all the app packages I have installed in HE:

• Amazon Echo Skill
• Hubitat Package Manager
• Abode Alarm v1.0.1 (driver)
• Hubitat Package Manager v1.8.7 (app)
• MyQ Lite v3.2 (app)
• MyQ Garage Door Opener v3.2 (driver)
• MyQ Garage Door Opener-NoSensor v3.2 (driver)
• IFTTT Integration
• Maker API
• Rule Machine

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This is well known U-Lock phenomena.

@bcopeland is there anything that could be done on your end to calm the battery reporting for this device?

It appears from the logs that it was unsolicited..

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Thanks to all for comments. I've passed this thread along to U-tek/Ubolt in my open technical support request. Hopefully they can do something.

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