ST Presensce sensor V2 no battery reporting

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Hi,

I moved one of my ST V2 presence sensors from my ST hub to my Hubitat and while it paired fine and I can see in the debug logs that it's pinging every 20 seconds it doesn't report the battery level.

On the positive side the beep does work, which it never did on the ST side, but I'd like the battery level as well. Does battery level not get sent every 20 seconds as well or does anyone know what data it sends every 20 seconds?

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Thank you

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I have 2 active at the moment, one reports 0 battery and one reports 100%.
I have AA cells attached externally so I don't really monitor the battery anyway as it lasts over a year.

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a bit of topic but the other thing I wanted to ask is that I see a lot of people reporting that their cell betteries are only lasting 1 month.

I have a fob on my keys paired to ST and the battery has been ok for a good few months. I wonder does ST do something better in their driver which makes the fob use less battery with the ST hub? Or I am just luckier than everyone else?

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Idk but along the same lines - I use an ST motion sensor to trigger lights at night when we say go to the kitchen or bathroom... so we don't need the sensor during daylight - is there a way to disable the sensor so that the battery could last longer? :slightly_smiling_face:

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It will report battery level every 12 hours approximately.

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Perfect thanks. I was just being impatient. Battery report did come in later on.

So anyone know what data does it actually send back every 20 seconds? I would have assumed they it doesn't actually have anything to report other then the battery started because from what I understand they don't actually have a cluster for presence

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Also you can turn off debug logging so it's not so chatty.

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Thanks, the debug logs actually get disabled by themselves after a few hours.
I've seen this with a few other drivers. They have a schedule to turn off the debug logging

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I didn't know that. I just tend to turn it off once I know a device is functioning properly

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After you enable the debug logging, refresh the device page and have a look at the bottom at the schedules. All of the official drivers I've used have a scheduled task to turn off the logs which only disables the debug logs