bulb power value always says "Internal Battery"

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Node-RED nodes to get updates from and control devices connected to an IKEA TRADFRI gateway

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bulb power value always says "Internal Battery" #14

Closed My-Random-Thoughts closed 3 years ago

My-Random-Thoughts commented 3 years ago

Hello, not sure if this is correct or not, but my IKEA light bulb always has a payload/power value of "Internal Battery" whether it's on/off or unpowered (off a mains). Is this correct?

I am trying to see if I can detect if a light has been turned off at the mains rather than just simple turned off. Some data, if it helps....

    "firmwareVersion": "2.3.050",
    "manufacturer": "IKEA of Sweden",
    "modelNumber": "TRADFRI bulb E27 WW 806lm",
    "power": "InternalBattery",
    "otaImageType": 16643,

Thanks

mjwwit commented 3 years ago

I've noticed this as well. I think InternalBattery refers to an internal and unknown power source. I'm not sure if this is a translation issue in the tradfri library I use or if the gateway uses this value. In any case this is nothing to worry about.