Hello to all Community members! My Hubitat (hardware V C-8) is connected via two Konnected alarm pannels (boards). Konnected boards communicate with Hubiat via WiFi. In testing the system I noticed that Hubiat will happily arm and indicate that everything is "clean and green" even if one of the Konnected boards is unplugged. Any suggestions on how to correct this problem and install an app to notify me if a Konnected board is offline? Thank you for any suggestions or guidance!
Regards;
-peter-
I believe the drivers for that system was produced by the manufacturer, so it would be up to them on how to handle things if the boards are unreachable.
Take one of your boards offline and then go to the device page for it.
Make note of the "Last Activity" timestamp (on info tab for 2.4.0)
Then try running refresh or some sort of command that it should respond to (anything except configure or initialize).
Then check the Last Activity again, has it updated to current time or is it still the old time?
If Last Activity does not update when the board is offline you can use [RELEASE] Device Activity Check - Get notifications for "inactive" devices to monitor it and check once a day to see if it is online or not.
Another option would be if you have any sort of NAS or server that could run Docker, would be to setup Uptime Kuma and setup some ping checks for the boards. This would give you a much faster alert if they go offline from the LAN.
Thanks for the reply, Jeff. Your reply sounds like something I would like to implement. I do see my two Konnected boards in Hubitat on the "Apps" page. They are not listed in the "Devices" page where I see the column for "Last Activity". Am I looking for the right setting? Thanks.
-peter-
The app must create devices of some sort so you can interact with it? Probably a device for each thing connected to it. You could just test out what I said above on one of the devices attached.
I have a Konnected panel and Device Activity Check recommended above works well for ensuring it is still operating.
With that said, I have been extremely pleased with the stability of Konnected. I flashed the firmware on an esp 8266 I had laying around and it has been rock solid for two years.
Can you please explain how you linked the Konnected Panel and Device Activity Checker? I do not see my Konnected boards listed on the Devices page. Do I need to create some sort of virtual instance?
Thank you for clarifying.
How are you doing anything with them if there are no devices created?
EDIT: I'm learning that I'm using the now-called "Legacy" drivers. Konnected apparently now has a new platform for their boards. See if the following applies in your case.
The Konnected app page should look something like this (this installation uses two 6-zone panels):
There should be a corresponding child app for each panel under the main app.
Click on the app corresponding to the board you're configuring, and at the bottom of that page, click "Next". This will take you to the individual device/sensor configuration page. Make sure you set it up according to what's connected to your panel.
Wow, I had no idea! I'm going to have to check on this when my brain has a higher capacity. I'd be interested to see if the new platform can apply firmware updates as I haven't kept up with those over the years.
My boards are the older platform so I’m using the legacy drivers as well.
Jeff, I have devices listed for all of my contacts, motion sensors, etc., I just do not see anything listed for the actual Konnected boards. They only appear on the Apps page. All is working just fine as is; I am just looking to enhance things by having Hubitat alert me if one of the Konnected boards goes offline.
When I view my Konnected boards on the Apps page, I do not see the arrows to the right of the names as you show. Here is what I see;
Thats what I was getting at above:
You might be able to monitor one of the attached devices for activity.
You could also us this to setup a periodic ping check from HE: [Release] Hubitat Ping
You would need to create a rule to alert you if the ping fails.
Those are part of the new HE platform 2.4.0, you must have not have updated yet.
No.
In my version the panels don’t get assigned devices. The panel child app offers API bindings. One is ping.
http://[yourhubitatip]/apps/api/[konnectedpanel_appid]/ping
the panels never get assigned devices the sensors under each panel do.. those are what you need to check for non activity to report that things are not working.
the panels are under applications..
Looking at another approach, I see that Rule Machine has the ability to PING a device. I am thinking I could PING each board once an hour to ensure it is responding. Any ideas on how to refine the rule so it would only send a message if the PING failed?
also make sure to put battery backups on your boards as they dont always respond well from power losses. and finally, make sure to set dhcp reserved addresses in your router or they may switch ips periodically on device or router reboots.
rule would be something similar to this but varied based on how many times you let it fail and your ping times.
I dont know if you have done this but it will look like this when you set up your devices in the konnected app. Then you will see the devices in your devices.
I think you have that. Device activity check will alert you if you have it to monitor them. That should let you know if the board goes offline
Hey Kahn-hubitat; which trigger event did you select to create that rule?
Download the Hubitat app
