Looking for Smart Vent

emersonvier · October 29, 2021, 8:14pm

Hi all I am looking for a solution for my Vents, so I have 11 Keen Smart Vent, for 4 years, but they never work well, but all my ZigBee device has an issue with connection, I do not blame the Keen.

So I am looking for other options for Smart Vent I did not find any Zwave or wired, any suggestion?

kahn-hubitat · October 29, 2021, 8:19pm

My keen work ok. but there are in the ceiling inside metal vents so as you summize it may be a signal issue.. that may be when many are also having problems with battery life if there are signal issues.

I put a zigbee in wall switch in the same room to act as a repeater.. maybe you can try that or a zigbee repeater device in the same room to see if it helps.

I find in my houses these work well as zigbee repeaters and are pretty innexpensive.

emersonvier · October 29, 2021, 8:24pm

Thank you very much for you post, but I can tell you ALL kind solution for ZigBee I tested last 3 year in my home, so I am tired to spend money with repeaters.

kahn-hubitat · October 29, 2021, 8:25pm

I also wrote/ported my own driver for the keen vents as gthe stock one was not reporting temp and pressure.

github.com

lgkahn/hubitat/blob/master/keenventlgk.groovy

metadata {
    definition (name: "Keen Home Smart Vent - lgk V2", namespace: "lgkapps", author: "Keen Home, lgkahn") {
        capability "Switch Level"
        capability "Switch"
        capability "Configuration"
        capability "Refresh"
        capability "Sensor"
        capability "Temperature Measurement"
        capability "Battery"

       // lgk modifications to add door and contact control, so you can open/close in alexa and view status as open/closed in contacts
       // also add label/words open closed when viewing from list of devices in room
       // lgk 10/20 had to modify by calling this function to get the corrected description map in Hubitat.. This was not necesary in Snmarthings so something is different in the underlying achitecture.
       // zigbee.parseDescriptionAsMap(description) 
        
		capability "Door Control"
        capability "Contact Sensor"

        command "getLevel"
        command "getOnOff"

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swade · October 30, 2021, 12:08am

I have been using this driver and @kahn-hubitat 's Keenec tLite app to control my ecobee and keen vents for several months now and have had less vent issues than before. 10 Vents and only 1 went offline. So much better than before. I have also added a couple of more zigbee plugs. I have a lot of daily vent activity and batteries are lasting more than a year.