I have several Bali z-wave solar shades in my home connected to Hubitat. They all work fine. What I haven't been able to figure out, however, is how to get alerts when the batteries are running low. I would have thought the drivers for these shades (Graber Somfy Shade Driver) would have that built in, especially since there's a device preference setting for "Daily Battery Check Time." But there doesn't seem to be any alert happening automatically. Do I actually need to build a rule for this? Am I missing a simpler way to accomplish this? Might this function be available in a different shade driver?
Since sometimes though, a device may die before it ever reports a low battery. A lot of us use an app like this: [RELEASE] Device Activity Check - Get notifications for "inactive" devices
Not only can it notify on low battery but it can also notify you if the device simply has not reported in within the last 24hrs (or any time frame you set).
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Thank you @jtp10181 - didn't know about the built-in notifications app. Totally makes sense - will use that.
I use Device Activity Check for everything.
Mainly due to its flexibility with many battery levels as well as inactivity.
I have battery levels for many different device suppliers as they all die at differnt levels.
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there is also a batterymonitor app that i ported to send you a nightly report abouty all selected battery levels..
its in package manager..
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I have solar and non-solar blinds so I just let Dev Activity Check send me the report every morning as they are all over the place especially in the winter.
Oh if we are showing off...
(This is created outside of the Hubitat platform with an event feed to a database)
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Ooooooo.
I smell a How-To. 
Like I need to hide from my wife more. 
Yup, already been done.
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