B-Hyve Battery and Charge Status

[mitch7391]

@MortJC just want to thank you first for getting this working, I was one of the first testers from Cody’s plug-in and have been dying for him to finish it or get it working. Thanks to you I got my B-Hyve 6 zone WiFi controller to work from HomeKit for the first time :)

I was wondering if you can get other statuses in it? I noticed the Cody’s version had a battery level and charging status (even though the unit is plugged into mains power), it would be nice to have the charging status. Also I wonder if the battery is the internal memory battery? So maybe that is still important.

[MortJC]

Hi Mitch7391,

Thanks for the feedback.

In regards to the battery level, I don't think that applies to the mains versions as I'm not getting any data from the API in regards to battery level. I'm guessing if I had a battery powered device I might get the data.

Cheers James.

On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 10:05 PM mitch7391 notifications@github.com wrote:

@MortJC https://github.com/MortJC just want to thank you first for getting this working, I was one of the first testers from Cody’s plug-in and have been dying for him to finish it or get it working. Thanks to you I got my B-Hyve 6 zone WiFi controller to work from HomeKit for the first time :)

I was wondering if you can get other statuses in it? I noticed the Cody’s version had a battery level and charging status (even though the unit is plugged into mains power), it would be nice to have the charging status. Also I wonder if the battery is the internal memory battery? So maybe that is still important.

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[mitch7391]

That is fair, maybe it was a bug in the previous plug-in? It always confused me and that’s why I thought it might have been an internal memory battery or something.

[mitch7391]

Funny enough @MortJC when I rebooted homebridge this morning after an update, I received the following error which I could swear I had seen once before since installing your plug-in:

[4/15/2020, 6:25:57 AM] [BHyve] Unhandled message received: clear_low_battery

The B-Hyve happened to be running its scheduled run at the time.

[MortJC]

Can't really do much with that unless there's another status.

I think the battery status is really for the battery powered devices.

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Funny enough @MortJC https://github.com/MortJC when I rebooted homebridge this morning after an update, I received the following error which I could swear I had seen once before since installing your plug-in:

[4/15/2020, 6:25:57 AM] [BHyve] Unhandled message received: clear_low_battery

The B-Hyve happened to be running its scheduled run at the time.

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[mitch7391]

I will see if I can get that status at all in debug mode if that would help? That appeared in my normal Homebridge logs whilst it was running.

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27/05/2020, 5:10:30 am [orbit] Unhandled message received: clear_low_battery

[MortJC]

Hi, what issue are you reporting?

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27/05/2020, 5:10:30 am [orbit] Unhandled message received: clear_low_battery

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[mitch7391]

I am assuming they are getting the same message as me in their Homebridge logs? Just as an FYI I still receiver this message with each reboot of Homebridge.

[MortJC]

Thanks for the info.

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I am assuming they are getting the same message as me in their Homebridge logs? Just as an FYI I still receiver this message with each reboot of Homebridge.

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[genesispc]

Just to let you know I have also received the "[orbit] Unhandled message received: clear_low_battery" this morning. Will keep an eye out for it happening again. I'm new to the whole homebridge scene. Is there a way to dump the messages being sent just by the orbit? I've edited the platform.js script to print the json messages received into the log file. Hopefully be able to get the battery details from there..

Edit. Updated the platform.js in order to dump the response from the API calls. Created a PR with change to ignore those the response for now...

[MortJC]

Hi

Yes that event can be ignored.

If you run it in Debug you can see all the messages.

Cheers.

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Just to let you know I have also received the "[orbit] Unhandled message received: clear_low_battery" this morning. Will keep an eye out for it happening again. I'm new to the whole homebridge scene. Is there a way to dump the messages being sent just by the orbit?

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[mitch7391]

@MortJC I’m not sure if I’m missing something here, but is there anyway we can stop the alarm coming up in our logs? Or if it is a real alarm is there anyway to use it like how other accessories can display a low battery status? It’s just that I still have it coming up in my logs with no resolution to what is to happen to it. If I can I reduce one more alarm in my logs that is a plus.

[MortJC]

Hi, it's not an alarm, just an unhandled message that we are not interested in as there is no way to do anything with this event.

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@MortJC https://github.com/MortJC I’m not sure if I’m missing something here, but is there anyway we can stop the alarm coming up in our logs? Or if it is a real alarm is there anyway to use it like how other accessories can display a low battery status? It’s just that I still have it coming up in my logs with no resolution to what is to happen to it. If I can I reduce one more alarm in my logs that is a plus.

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[mitch7391]

Sorry alarm was a poor choice of words. So it is just definitely something we have to ignore? It can’t be removed in any way?

[MortJC]

Yes it can be ignored.

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Sorry alarm was a poor choice of words. So it is just definitely something we have to ignore? It can’t be removed in any way?

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