Keen Vent 'issue'

Mine is 2-3 years old. I don't remember the exact purchase date.

Mine are all from the November-January timeframe.

FYI, the keen vents run on 3v. The vent will run with at least one set of the four batteries installed. Mine are all hardwired using 3-volt supplies.

Dang, so it's basically running in 2s2p and STILL killing the batteries in like two weeks. That's nuts.

I was helping @shawng with keeenect and he commented that the vent would not go to full open and would register 85% open when commanded to 100%. I wonder if it is still driving the motor to open and draining the battery that way.

@mike.maxwell Hi, any reason why under the Hubitat hub, the following configure command is not understood by the Hub, and not transmitted to the Keen Home vents:

    // Yves Racine 2015/09/10: use new custom pressure attribute
    // pressure - type: int32u, change: 1 = 0.1Pa, 500=50 PA, 50000=5000PA (C350), 
    "zcl global send-me-a-report 0x0403 0x20 0x22 300 3600 {C35000}", "delay 200" +
    "send 0x${device.deviceNetworkId} 1 1", "delay 1500",

A similar report command works fine under the SmartThings hub. That might explain why some users are going through their batteries faster than others.

Errors under the logs:

sys:12021-07-09 07:55:41.114 Unable to send Zigbee message: zcl global read 0x0403 0x20 from zigbee id: 0022A300000FED67, message type is unknown.

sys:12021-07-09 07:55:40.912 Unable to send Zigbee message: zcl mfg-code 0x115B from zigbee id: 0022A300000FED67, message type is unknown.

The following zigbee command to report temperature is working fine.

   "zcl global send-me-a-report 0x0402 0 0x29 300 3600 {6400}", "delay 500",
    "send 0x${device.deviceNetworkId} 1 1", "delay 1500",

Regards.

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Our inbuilt driver disables both temp and pressure reports, so I don't understand how that would decrease battery life.
In any event I'll have a look why that command is being rejected.

Hi, that's for the default driver, but a lot of Hubitat users have a custom driver..

Thnx for your help.