Low Battery Alerts?

[Chuck]

Jerry,

I get those all the time with all of my weather sensors. I can change the batteries and within 15 minutes they will show that batteries are low. I get these from my X10 door and window sensors also and many of my motion detectors.

They show up in the logs and I wish I could make them go away. To control my environmental conditions I have temperature sensors everywhere so my log is full of sensors that have low batteries and they take up a lot of log space.

At last count I have 20 temperature sensors and 6 humidity sensors. They tell me there is a low battery about every 75 seconds every day. That is 30,000 lines of text per day, 900,000 per month and over 1,000,000 lines of text per year. Some of the warnings come in twice as the sample below shows. And this is just for my weather sensors. If I count the other false alarms one my other sensors it probably takes up half of my logs each day.

It would be nice to see them go away as the are just crying wolf and really aren’t going dead. My batteries are low for a year before I actually get around to changing them and I just ignore all of the warning.

The low batttery warnings on my locks are real. They only issue a warning when they are low so those I attend to right away.

8/14/15 8:04:24 AM Received Temperature for Temp computer room of 68.9F (RFX)
8/14/15 8:04:25 AM low battery alert from unit Temp bsmt freezer.web (RFX)
8/14/15 8:04:25 AM Received Temperature for Temp bsmt freezer.web of 19.04F
8/14/15 8:04:30 AM low battery alert from unit Temp garage test (RFX)
8/14/15 8:04:30 AM Received Temperature for Temp garage test of 72.14F
8/14/15 8:04:30 AM low battery alert from unit Temp garage test (RFX)
8/14/15 8:04:30 AM Received Temperature for Temp garage test of 72.14F
8/14/15 8:04:31 AM low battery alert from unit Temp bathroom.web (RFX)
8/14/15 8:04:31 AM Received Temperature for Temp bathroom.web of 69.98F
8/14/15 8:04:33 AM low battery alert from unit Temp GB (RFX)
8/14/15 8:04:33 AM Received Temperature for Temp GB of 65.84F
8/14/15 8:04:34 AM low battery alert from unit Temp kitchen.web (RFX)
8/14/15 8:04:34 AM Received Temperature for Temp kitchen.web of 70.7F

This is just in 10 seconds.

Anyway we can make these go away James, Michael????? PLEASE.

Chuck


> On Aug 14, 2015, at 5:25 AM,  Jerry — MacSolutions <jerry at stlmacguy.com> wrote:
> 
> I’m getting these…
> 
> 8/14/15 7:20:10 AM low battery alert from unit Garage Door Sensor (W800)
> 
> From a Door sensor and DM10 and have for years.  Even with new batteries.  Anyway to stop this or perhaps I added the security units incorrectly?
> 
> Anyone?
> 
> Jp
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