How to . . . use Ring Range Extender in a Notification Rule?

[Eric.C.Miller]

C-8 hub, 2.3.8.140
How can I use the Ring (ZWave) Range Extender, which reports power source (mains or battery), to notify me when the mains power is out (Hubitat and network gear are on UPS)? I thought it was a simple notification rule but I don't see any device type that contains the Ring Range Extender so it can be the selected source device. Is there a trick?
I found there is a driver for the generation 2 Range Extender. Apparently both of mine are generation 1.
Thanks!

[jtp10181]

Use rule machine and setup a trigger for "Power source"
You could have it alert you of any changes or only when it goes to battery.

I'm sure some people have examples they could chare with you (I do not currently).

[hydro311]

Here's an example of my Power Out Warning rule for the 4 circuits I'm primarily concerned about monitoring.

No particular reasoning for my choice of a 5-minute buffer window -- just seems like a decent window to account for an intentional power-down for a quick wiring job or a brief unintentional power-grid blip.

Summary

[Eric.C.Miller]

Thanks!

Looking at the logs and the device events, neither of my range extenders has reported the power source - they only report that battery level is 100%. I know power was interrupted this week because I shut off every breaker when I was troubleshooting a UPS failure.

[hydro311]

Perhaps a limitation of the v1 Ring then? I'm not familiar with that hardware series. The v2 should be OK as far as I know, and Zooz's ZAC38 is a similar (newer) device.

I wish the ZAC38 was a bit less clunky design-wise, but it works very well -- this notification rule has fired every time it should (I've been doing some electrical work cleanup this spring).

[jtp10181]

@hydro311

I wish the ZAC38 was a bit less clunky design-wise

Yeah they really botched that design, it will partially block the second outlet no matter which way you put it.

[Horseflesh]

I recently got a Ring range extender for the same purpose and it definitely reports the power source.

The notification logic is this simple trigger.

Of course the smarter thing to do in my case would be to replace the old GFCI outlet that sometimes reports a false positive, trips, and shuts off that fridge. But that was like 10 minutes more work so I didn't do it that way...