I am having trouble with a Segled E1E-G7F button controller. When it is paired with the hub it drains the battery within 2 days. When it is not part of the hub it runs fine. I am using the Segled Button controller built in to Hubitat. Any ideas?
Cant help with your question, but I did fix your title to make sense.
The first idea that comes to mind is signal strength - is it possible that it is too far from the hub and is using more power than it should to communicate to it?
I would try keeping it close to the hub to see if it makes a difference, or get a repeater close by where it is typically kept.
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We'll, the controller is about 10 feet from the hub, and there are two other Zigbee outlet devices nearby, one of which is about 3 feet away. Those ought to be reasonable distances, it seems to me. I happened to have a spare Philips Hue V2 push button that I connected up, as well, and it is sitting in the same location as the Sengled device. The Philips device has no such problem and uses the same battery type. I can't help but think there is something in the driver behind this.
Are you using a community driver or built in?
The built-in driver.
The hub chose that driver when the device was included.
open a live log in one browser tab, then make sure debug and text logging are on. Is it being chatty?
It doesn't seem to be chatty. With both kinds of logging on I only i get one entry which says which button was pushed and one from Debug with about 3 lines of data.
I can confirm that the battery drains very quickly for me as well. I am also using the built-in driver.
Does it use a presence attribute?
I would go to settings/Zigbee details/Zigbee logging to get a better idea of whether it’s sending unsolicited messages. Zigbee devices chat it up behind the scenes without anything showing up in the regular logs. It could also be the repeaters that you are using, you didn’t mention what exactly they are. Or (most likely) it’s that these are terrible devices with countless 1 star reviews by people stating that the batteries only last a day or two on SmartThings as well as Hubitat.
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Hello, any updates on these Sengled Button Controller battery killers?
Having same issue.
Wanted to add in my office I also have a Sengled magnet contact as my switches .. however battery is a different Lipo .. hasn't shown to be drained but its not used much
Also have a Moes temp sensor same room, different battery ... isn't drained but it may report hourly
... so on surface appears not to be zigbee radio chatter (but thats a great thought)
Thought I had read for first time setups .. battery use can be excessive as zigbee mesh is being optimized
.. are batteries still wearing out in 8-24 hours? Hubitat Engineers have written WELL on about how to make a strong mesh. I might reread and give that a try (after programming distant repeaters; powering Hubitat down for 30min and allowing more battery drain until mesh is optimized)
IE: Is battery drain common in first time setups until mesh becomes stable
I personally don’t use those. I use Pico’s in which the batteries last up to 10
years.
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I don’t think it’s uncommon for battery life to be affected while the mesh is sorting itself out, but end devices don’t generally hop to another repeater unless there is a connection issue. I never used the Sengled buttons, but have had good luck with the Hue button controller and the Zooz Zen34.
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