I wrote rule awhile ago to give me an alert when a battery goes under 50%. Simple but effective. Since upgrading I get random reports of batteries that are NOT under 50%. Rule looks like this: [image] And i'm getting bogus notifications like this: [Screenshot 2022-04-10 at 6.18.21 PM] Any sugg…

Did you try the native app Notifications? It´s easy to do what you want, I have the same rule running in it without problems!

I just created a quick test, similar idea but different attributes: [Screenshot: Rule with "any" trigger and multiple devices] I found the same thing: the rule triggers when any value changes and any of the values is less than the specified trigger (even if the device that generated an event has …

[image] wiegout: I wrote rule awhile ago to give me an alert when a battery goes under 50%. Simple but effective. Since upgrading I get random reports of batteries that are NOT under 50%. What version of Rules is this rule using? (You can find it in the last column of the apps screen.)

Ouch. That would be painful! It does look like a bug was reintroduced. I would have liked to test the beta but I was away for an extended time and unable to test 2.3.1 during the beta.

Oh brother. So elegant. Seems to do what I want with 87.3% less kludginess. I rewrote it as an instance of Notifications. Let's see how it does. Thanks @marcusvrsilva

[image] bertabcd1234: I remember "any" triggers working like this a while back and thought that was considered a bug, since fixed, so perhaps it was inadvertently re-introduced. I downgraded to 2.3.0 and verified that this behavior was different, as I remembered (and as you mentioned). I will…

[image] wiegout: give me an alert when a battery goes under 50% You might also try Device Activity Check which can simply let you know when a device battery dies and it goes offline. I use this for all my battery devices. I gave up on battery level notifications, because many of my devices ha…

The flaw with this approach is that sometimes it's critical when a device dies. For example we recently took a very long road trip. One of the most important types of devices NOT to die while you're gone is water sensors. I would rather replace the battery a little early than have them die a day aft…

[image] wiegout: flaw with this approach Yeah, fair enough. If I’m going to be away for a while, I do replace the low batteries for critical devices. So a mixed approach would probably be best.

Rule behavior changed after going from 2.3.0.124 to 2.3.1.137

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tony.fleisher April 11, 2022, 3:16pm 12

You might also check out the Device Watchdog by @bptworld; it has the ability to configure both activity and battery monitor checks.