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@marceloaqno I am also recompiling and testing.
thanks for the (hopeful) fix
I will report back with my status in a few days

@peerv said in sendBatteryLevel not showing up in HA dasboard:

@mfalkvidd
Thanks, yes your solution could work. Also a voltage divider with a seperate child-id could work.

But my point is that the Arduino battery_level value is already available in the mysensors.json in Home Assistant.

"type": 17,
        "sketch_name": "N60Breed",
        "sketch_version": "1.0",
        "battery_level": 91,
        "protocol_version": "2.3.1",
        "heartbeat": 0

I just don't know how to get the battery_level value presented in the HA UI.

you have to use a template.
under the sensors section

• platform: template
  sensors:
  computer_room_15_0:
  unit_of_measurement: "%"
  entity_id: sensor.computer_room_15_1
  icon_template: mdi:battery
  value_template: >-
  {%- if states.sensor.computer_room_15_1 != None -%}
  {{states.sensor.computer_room_15_1.attributes.battery_level}}
  {%- else -%}
  0
  {%- endif -%}

happy to test.. alpha1 still running on my VM

And the winner appears to be flaky sensor.
I replaced for a 3rd time and it seems to be working correctly now.

for me these PIR's fall in to 1 of 3 categories.

1. works correctly
2. only works when time out is turned all the way down to 0 (so it constantly sets and resets, any amount higher and it doesn't trip at all)
3. hardware timeout works, but sensor trips right after it's un-set

I guess i'm glad i bought these in bulk.. i will replace the other 3 or 4 that are not working as they should.

@jkandasa

Thanks for the info. I'm not sure what was wrong. when i looked at my password, it was the encrypted one you posted above.
i ended up just removing everything and copying up the files from scratch. and it's working now.
thanks!!

looking for some help with OTA and a sensebender board.
if i manually reset the board, then it will take the OTA and that works fine.
however, that's the only way i can get it to work.
it doesn't respond to a reboot command (I assume this is because it's sleeping)
and even if i select the battery/sleeping option, when a transmission does come in, it doesn't reset or start an OTA.
the only way so far is to physically PF the device and then the OTA works.
what am i missing?
thanks!

EDIT: so this does seems to work.. i spent all morning trying to come up with hack-y ways to get this to work.
using the default sensebender sketch the OTA wait time is set to 300 milli seconds. which is like .3 seconds.
i changed that 3000 (3 seconds) set the FW and waited for the next transmission..boom off it went (the OTA).
so for anyone running into this issue. try this solution.
I cant imagine 3 seconds vs .3 seconds is going to make a huge difference in battery life.

https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/2759/mysensors-raspberry-port-suggestions/12

what about that one?