RM help needed - ZooZ MultiRelay Zen16 "Last Activity At"

[DeLannie]

I could use some help.

I have a ZooZ Multirelay Zen 16, I'm trying to read the "Last Activity At" (date/time) ex (1/11/2025, 4:25:45 PM) in RM, and then take that value transfer it another hub variable example "ZooZ_R3_Date_Time".

I'm struggling and need some help

thanks in advance

[velvetfoot]

I don't think you can.

Apps can have access to this however, I believe.

For example:

[RELEASE] Device Activity Check - Get notifications for "inactive" devices

(Putting this at the top to make it easier to find...explanation of the app is below.) This app is available on GitHub and is also available from Hubitat Package Manager: To install, just add the app from the above (raw link: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RMoRobert/Hubitat/master/apps/DeviceActivityCheck/DeviceActivityCheck2.groovy) to "Apps Code." Or, find it in Hubitat Package Manager. App Description: While there have been at least a couple apps with similar purposes, none did exac…

[DeLannie]

oh, that explains my struggle

[DeLannie]

Can Device Activity Check provide near real time notification direct to iPhone? ,I do understand it can send an report based on a schedule time. I would like to know when it stop communicating and not have to wait for scheduled report.

[bertabcd1234]

No. This does not generate an event, so it's not something apps can subscribe to. You can automate report to be generated however you want (including a virtual switch or button, not just the in-app schedule). But I wouldn't recommend going too extreme...is there a specific concern? A powered Z-Wave device is unlikely to just stop working, so if there is some other problem, addressing that would probably be better.

[jtp10181]

You cannot really use that to get a real time alert. How would you know when the last activity is stale? Unless You issue a refresh every minute, which would not be advised.

What do you need this for anyway?

[DeLannie]

My plan is to create my own watch dog timer, I was going to monitor the last activity time, I have a rule that forces the ZooZ to reply every 15 seconds. Im watching the time in the ZooZ device, and it updates every 15 sec, I just cannot access the time on the ZooZ, It appears not to be exposed for RM

[DeLannie]

We use hurricane watchdog timers in the SCADA business for offshore wells. We set a period of time,for hurricanes, we use 4 hours, if the PLC does not reply after 4 hours, the PLC will shutin the wells. Its MMS relations.

In my case, its just a simple alarm for our office, we just want to know when the ZooZ is not communicating so we can address the issue.

Thanks for your support

[velvetfoot]

How about a rule to ping it periodically?
You can do that in RM.

[DeLannie]

can you provide an example, im not sure how to ping a zwave device

[velvetfoot]

I said this the other day.
Bear in mind, I'm no genius.

Also, the ZEN16 can do auto on/off. You could set it up so that an unused relay, or just a signal I think in the ones, goes on and off periodically, and test for duration. Probably wouldn't want to do the relay, but I think the new 16's can be parameter'ed to just signal.

Any Idea if This Rule is Possible…?

Rule Machine has a built in Ping action. In my test rule, below, I pinged google.com (hubitat only likes the ip address in numerical form) every 10 minutes. A local variable is set to the result. 0=0% loss, ie, up; 100=100% loss, ie, down. If variable =100, cycle switch for 15 seconds If you had a Zooz ZEN04 you could set the auto/on feature so all you'd have to do is turn if off and it would turn itself back on after a preset amount of time elapses. I'm sure there are defects with my logi…

[jtp10181]

If you can stand to have the alerts for when there is no activity within the last full minute you can use DAC: [RELEASE] Device Activity Check - Get notifications for "inactive" devices

You would setup a group with 1 minute

Pick your notification "device" (where to send notifications)

Then to trigger it I would use a virtual button. So create a virtual button device and then select that button on DAC as the trigger. Create a rule to run every minute t push that button.

You could dial your refresh rule back since its only checking every minute, or you could let DAC do the refresh itself. Personally I would keep your other rule at put it to refresh back to 30 seconds. Or if you have the button push every minute on the minute you could do the refresh on the 50s mark every minute or something like that. I forget how precise you can be in RM with the times.

[DeLannie]

in your example, where is the notification send to: You show SM-T500 DEV as the example, how is that transmitted to a iphone as an alarm?

[jtp10181]

It would be sent as a notification through the Hubitat app. You can use any "notification" device on the hub. Can be text notifications or TTS.

You might be more interested in using something like Pushover where you can customize the notifications to have different priorities, etc...

Or did you have something else in mind to send the alert?

[DeLannie]

I have pushover, that is what I plan to use to all iPhones, and yea I can select any sound on pusheover, which is nice

[jtp10181]

So you just have to set that up on HE and you will then have a virtual "device" which sends the pushover notifications. Once that is setup those devices will be available in that drop down menu to pick from.

[DeLannie]

ok, I will implement and do some testing. Thanks for your great support

[DeLannie]

implemented, and tested your recommendation, it worked, thank you for your great support