I mean this for people that have been using battery powered devices on another hub. Lithium batteries have a very consistent voltage output that varies little until they are about dead. I know I changed out quite a few of my batteries shortly after coming from SmartThings and at the time thought wtf. I now know that the batteries will run down much faster until there is a good mesh and at the time the batteries had been in use for over a year. I wouldn’t expect a cr2 to die from the switch, but the Samsung button’s 2450 will be about spent.
This issue has nothing to do with a hub. This will happen on any Zigbee mesh regardless the brand. It is not specific to Hubitat.
That isn’t the point at all. I’m just saying that this could cause problems for people migrating from another hub. Why not try to avoid problems?
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I totally get what you're saying. Maybe a different way to put it would be, "If you are migrating battery-powered devices from another platform, we recommend you start with a fresh set of batteries before migration".
@Ryan780 - I'm curious, in your opinion, would this statement scare off potential customers?
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Yes, what you said. I wasn’t trying to be the spokesperson for HE. I just thought it might be something to consider for best practices.
Yeah...it would. A fresh battery in every single device? That's not a small investment. Especially when to change them you'd have to rip them off a wall, repaint, and put it back up. I would also wonder why they were asking this? Are they saying that batteries don't last as long on Hubitat? Are they saying that they don't have accurate battery reporting levels?
Anything negative you say during the sales process will lose you customers if you do it long enough. That's just statistics.
Well, I love the Samsung buttons, but when I switched to HE from ST I had to replace all of the 2450 batteries because they all died within a couple of weeks. The Hue dimmer batteries all needed replaced shortly after them. Maybe just something to make people aware of if they run into issues.
I dunno you could say "recommended but not required" or something like that.
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How often you have to change batteries will vary drastically from device to device.. I have some devices that are going on 2 years @ 80%+ battery... And I have others that require batteries in less than a year.. Kinda hard to make a blanket statement about changing batteries every year... I agree with @Ryan780 that is an expensive prospect..
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I know this is an old topic, but I started having the same issue as the OP. Searching topic after topic, I found this one. And just wanted to say "THANK YOU!!!!"
This turned out to be a Bosch Motion Detector battery level. Once I replaced all of the batteries in all of the Bosch Motion Detectors, everything is now back to normal.
I will be replacing the batteries every October now, regardless of battery level (batteries usually last around 2 years).
Thank you, again!!
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People thought I was mad. Glad it helped.
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Well we might have thought you were even MORE mad... not just regularly mad per usual..
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