Currently in rule machine under location event there is only an option to monitor if the zigbee network is either enabled or disabled but not if it goes offline. Zwave has an option if it crashes but zigbee does not.
Not sure if it's what you're looking for, but the Hub Information Driver has 2 Zigbee Status attributes (2 different sources of information) that may work for you.
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Thanks for the reply. I do have that driver installed but when the zigbee network goes offline, That driver still says enabled. It seems to only reflect if zigbee is set to disable but not show the current running status.
Do both statuses ( zigbeeStatus and zigbeeStatus2) agree at that time? I've been looking for a definitive zigbee crash event/indicator.
From what I have seen on my hub, when the zigbee network went offline they both still reported Enabled.
That's disappointing, status 2 is pulling from the same indicator that the UI uses for its alert so was hoping it would catch it.
There is not much you can do to remedy Zigbee radio going offline. Often that means that you are dealing with a hardware problem. If you send me a private message, I'd be glad to further assist.
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I have this rule that I picked up from a forum conversation. This trigger seems to be what you want.
That said, I've never had the Zigbee radio on either of my C-7s go offline, so this has never triggered.
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I also have this rule in place and it did not trigger. I think by disabling the zigbee radio is the only way it will.
Could this be accomplished by proxy, for example a "health check" to one reliable plugged-in Zigbee device on the mesh (direct to the hub).
When it doesn't report (or when spoken to) after X amount of time you can presume a) power failure, or b) loss of mesh, yeah there is also c-z reasons probably...but at least this would have you looking as to why/what's up.
I guess another way to think about this is that you're asking HE to look/see/say "my Zigbee is down" whereas another perspective might be a reliable receiver not responding telling you that that the mesh is down OR there is intermittent interference issues (like a Zigbee "transmission storm").
Does the Zigbee radio in the HE ever go down, are there ever such storms? I've wondered lately when seeing this new "Zigbee Down" message.
EDIT: Actually, this whole network health thing is so important that having a device out there whose sole job is monitoring how things are in all the radio protocols, say....out at the edge of your mesh, might be a cool tool to "phone home with the bad news of a failing network".
I was looking through the code for zigbeestatus2 and noticed that it is looking for either enabled or disabled. I think that it may not be triggering because it should also be looking for offline as well. This may be why the status does not report the crash.
Chris
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