Anything in the logs? Since there are no detents in the wheel I could easily see the encoder getting stuck between two positions and constantly spam events.
Mine has been fine, but the IKEA warehouse took almost 4 weeks to get it to me so it’s only been connected a few days.
Thanks for sharing your experience with this device, please keep me posted on your battery life.
I was just using a single push to turn on/off a light via the Simple Automation Rules App.
You can see in the logs below that the battery went flat over night with out reporting anything out of the ordinary.
This was the same behavior across the 3 remotes I have.
Mine lasted about a month on the original IKEA battery - low usage though (maybe once a week, if that).
Mine works perfectly but battery reporting is not reliable.
I don’t think it is consuming the battery fast, it seems it is only a reporting issue.
Could it be that the firmware is not extracting correctly the battery value?
So is that the same reason we aren't able to use the Linkind remote? (push on/off, hold to dim up/dn) They pair fine, they're really nice, (and small) and cost $6.72 ea. from the fine folks at Amazon.com
It's the ** Linkind 1-Key Remote Control, Wireless Smart Dimmer Switch**
I use it "touchlink" with a pair of Cree bulbs that are already in HE. Convenient on the guest nightstand. (The remote pairs with HE, but is just a "device")
I think there might be a bug with the Battery Reporting feature of the custom driver. The HEX value sent by the device doesn't seem to be correctly transformed to int.
In the example above, I don't understand how 0x003C gets transformed in 30.0, but I might be overlooking something.
This is the value returned by zigbee.getEvent (line 99) at the top of the parse function. The else if battery section further down (lines 127 to 129) is never called.
If I comment out line 99 I can then fall in the else if on line 127 and get a battery value that seems to be more coherent.
What do you guys think?
0x3C hex = 60 decimal
60 times 0.5 percent reporting value = 30 percent battery level
And just for my personnal improvement, where does that 0.5 factor comes from?
The Zigbee Cluster Users Guide, Battery information attribute set.
Well, I learnt something today! Thanks for the explanation and sorry for the false report.
Hi All, I returned the Symfonisk remotes I had and then decided I would give it one more go with a new one. I did the latest platform update and paired the new remote and so far the battery life looks like it might be ok. I guess I'll need to wait a couple more days to be sure, so time will tell.
Hi scottbaker007,
Is the battery level correctly reported?
In frequency and value?
This time it took about 6 days from when I paired it for the battery to go flat. (The device stopped working and I checked battery with a multimeter)
I really like the form factor of this button but think I'll just stick to the Samsung ones for now.
Anyone make any progress with this? would love to see it working like an "analog dimmer" style control out of the box.
Tested one, got it working, but got the battery drain issue. Is that connected to the driver or a faulty unit?
I am now using three of them. All three report battery wrongly. One has been at zero battery for months now.
I believe it is a driver issue. Nevertheless, IMHO, they work fine and their use as dimmer with this driver is great.
Thanks for that, the IKEA leaflet shows press and hold for greater than 10 seconds, rather than 4 rapid presses, but your method worked, theirs didn't.
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