Feature request: Device health

danfox52 · June 7, 2018, 2:05pm

I would like to see some way of monitoring device health, perhaps by looking at the last time a device reported in. I was reviewing my device events and realized a door sensor (SmartThings multi sensor) hadn't updated it's status in over a month. The battery showed 55%, but it apparently it was dead. Put a new battery in, and all works. I have a rule that reports when battery level drops below 40%, but obviously it didn't help here.

bobbles · June 7, 2018, 2:30pm

While I agree this is a good idea, be careful what you wish for.
When ST introduced this people encountered lots of problems and disabled it.
Personally I didn't see any issues but lots of people did.
Good request though.

danfox52 · June 7, 2018, 4:47pm

One idea is for an app to access the logs to know if a device hasn't reported in for a user defined time. Then have the app send a text. Don't do anything but alert the user, so we can then go into the HE webapp and test the device.

ogiewon · June 7, 2018, 6:35pm

Or, someone could simply port @ericm 's ST SmartApp to Hubitat...

ritchierich · June 7, 2018, 8:18pm

This is something that has been requested before and @bravenel confirmed in that post that it is something they are/will be working on:

ericm · June 7, 2018, 8:48pm

I actually do have it converted and just need to post it. I would prefer a built in capability, but it might be good enough to get us by until that happens.

gavincampbell · June 7, 2018, 9:38pm

I just did something up in WebCoRE to do this. Luckily the devices I want to monitor (Xiaomi) all have a lastCheckin attribute in their drivers that I was able use to do a time comparison. This way if one of them go offline I send an IFTTT notification to let me know. I'm mainly using this to monitor these devices while I troubleshoot them.

I tried looking for similar attributes on other devices with no luck. But just thought I would throw this idea out there if its something that may help.

bangali · June 7, 2018, 9:58pm

throwing one more out ... rooms manager also supports monitoring device "health" for all devices specified in settings for both rooms manager and rooms child. going to release that feature this weekend:

ogiewon · June 24, 2018, 11:29pm

Eric,

[UPDATE] Nevermind. I found it in your Hubitat Github repository. It has already found two of my devices that had issues which I have now corrected.

Just curious if you’ve posted a Hubitat version of your Device Monitor app yet?

Thanks,
Dan

[UPDATE] For others looking for a simple App to monitor your devices to see if they've gone inactive or have low battery levels, @ericm's Device Monitor App is very convenient.

github.com

erocm123/Hubitat/blob/master/Apps/device-monitor.src/device-monitor.groovy

/**
 *  Device Monitor
 *
 *  Copyright 2016 Eric Maycock
 *
 *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except
 *  in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed
 *  on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License
 *  for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
 *
 *  Contributors
 *  ----------------
 *  Based off of code from J.Constantelos (https://github.com/constjs)
 *  Some code modifications provided by "Craig.K.Lyons" (https://github.com/lyons189)
 *
 *  Overview

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danfox52 · August 5, 2018, 2:56am

I installed this app and it seems to work fine EXCEPT I am not getting a text alert. I formatted my phone number as +15553331111 like Hubitat likes it. Do I format another way?

ogiewon · August 5, 2018, 2:58am

Not sure about SMS. I am using it with Pushover and it works great.

Marcusone · August 15, 2018, 1:25pm

@ogiewon how did you get it working with pushover? I can't seem to find how to setup pushover, Hubitat posts seem to say it has native support?

Thanks,

ogiewon · August 15, 2018, 1:31pm

@ericm's Device Monitor App works great with Pushover. In the Device Monitor 'Settings' page, under 'Send a push notification?', simply select your Pushover Device.

To set up Pushover, you can follow my instructions from when I originally wrote the Pushover Driver. No need to use the custom driver now that Hubitat has included it in the firmware.

Marcusone · August 15, 2018, 1:35pm

Thanks. I was missing the step of manually adding a new "Virtual Device"

mike · October 22, 2018, 2:31am

Is there a recommended time for what is considered "Inactive". I guess it will boil down to how often I want to receive notifications - so just wondering what other users have setup.

gabriele · December 27, 2018, 12:44pm

Hi @ericm I've installed your app, but seems that it's looking at last event received instead of latest activity, do you think that it's possible to add an option for this? See below some screenshots.

Device monitor reports that "Presa taverna" device is inactive since 99 hours:

But last activity for "Presa taverna" was around 7 hours ago:

For reference, latest event was around 99 hours ago:

Thanks

bptworld · December 27, 2018, 2:00pm

Since this has been an ongoing issue, I've created another option...

gabriele · December 27, 2018, 2:36pm

Seems that it has the same issue:

gavincampbell · December 27, 2018, 2:52pm

I believe this is a bug in the last activity method pulling the wrong value. I had reported it to support and hopefully will be fixed in a future update to pull the last activity info instead of the last event info.

gabriele · December 27, 2018, 2:56pm

Probably you are right because also @bptworld one is reporting the same.