Fibaro Flood Sensor FGFS-101 - Problems

[njordan]

Hi,
I have two items for flood alarmings......the one from Everspring which works very well and the one from Fibaro (the stylish UFO-like edition) which does not react to any flood simulated...Battery values shown are also only working for Everspring....
I'm totally unsure what I can try on top of what I already did to make it work....Before Openhab I used another solution (Domoticz) and here Fibaro always worked well...so guess its a config/setup issue......Looking into logs it seems that during 24hours no Fibaro Flood message comes in at all, also not if I force an alarm by flooding my basement....(simulating of course :-)....any idea what I could try?

Items look as follows:
Number Everspring_Flood "Kitchen FloodSensor" <siren> (Misc) {zwave="6:command=SENSOR_ALARM,alarm_type=5,respond_to_basic=TRUE"}
Number EverFlood_Batt "Kitchen FloodBattery [%d %%]" <battery> (MyBattery) { zwave="6:command=BATTERY" }
Number Fibaro_Flood "Basement FloodSensor" <siren> (Misc) {zwave="11:command=SENSOR_ALARM,alarm_type=5,respond_to_basic=TRUE"}
Number FibaroFlood_Batt "Basement FloodBattery [%d %%]" <battery> (MyBattery) { zwave="11:command=BATTERY" }

[ari...@nesys.it]

Hi,

The UFO-like edition from Fibaro is working very good here.

My config is:

/*Fibaro Flood Sensors - Test */

Number Fibaro_Bath_Battery "Bath flood sensor battery [%d]" (Sensors, FF_Bath) {zwave="3:0:command=battery"}

String Fibaro_Bath_Batcode "Bath fs battery [MAP(battery.map):%s]" (Sensors, FF_Bath)

Number Fibaro_Bath_Temp "Bath temperature [%.1f °C]" (Sensors, FF_Bath, Chart) {zwave="3:2:command=sensor_multilevel"}

Switch Fibaro_Bath_AlarmGen "Bath tamper alarm" (Sensors, FF_Bath) {zwave="3:0:command=sensor_alarm, alarm_type=0,respond_to_basic=true"}

Switch Fibaro_Bath_AlarmFlood "Bath flood alarm" (Sensors, FF_Bath) {zwave="3:0:command=sensor_alarm, alarm_type=5,respond_to_basic=true"}

For the battery, I used to work with a rule, and 5 different icons, to have a simple vision of the status. Putting also my rule for reference (then you need to create simply battery-1, battery-2 etc...icons ):

rule "Fibaro Bath Flood Sensor Battery Rating"

when

  Item Fibaro_Bath_Battery changed or

  System started

then

  if (Fibaro_Bath_Battery.state == Undefined || Fibaro_Bath_Battery.state == Uninitialized) 

  return false

  else {

  var Number vp = Fibaro_Bath_Battery.state as DecimalType

  var Number b

  if (vp > 90) {b = 5}

  else if (vp > 70) {b = 4}

  else if (vp > 30) {b = 3}

  else if (vp > 10) {b = 2}

  else {b = 1}

  postUpdate(Fibaro_Bath_Batcode, b)

  logInfo("Rules", "Fibaro Bath FS Battery Rating completed")

  }

end

My first impression is maybe your config is not completed. Check your zwave logs.

Other options will come very soon (I've added some parameters in the next release).

Hope this helps.

Andrea

[ari...@nesys.it]

Ehm ...  did you hear the siren, right?

How are your checking this? Put a switch item in your site map, something like:

Switch item=Fibaro_Bath_AlarmGen visibility=[Fibaro_Bath_AlarmGen=="ON"]

Switch item=Fibaro_Bath_AlarmFlood visibility=[Fibaro_Bath_AlarmFlood=="ON"]

don't care about visibility, for the moment.

When you simulate a flood, you need to hear the siren, and the switch item will be ON. Siren, to check if the battery is ok. Switch to check your config. You can also force an update ticking 3 times the TMP button inside the sensor.

Il giorno domenica 22 marzo 2015 22:59:39 UTC+1, njordan ha scritto:

[njordan]

Thanks a lot....

First, sure I hear the Siren/Alarm from the speakers.....it also works with other HomeAutomation System - so I guess its a problem of the config.

- From what I see, you are using Switches for the Alarms, right? is this the correct way, as I understood from other discussions (this is the way I did it up to now) to make it a number item and if the value is 255 the Alarlm is ON........will give it a try...

- What I see, and this makes me happy, does this really mean there is a TEMP sensor???? Because I was pretty sure - but with my old system I could not manage to get the TEMP out of the system.....great

[Andrea Riela]

try to use a switch … much better. Use a switch also for the tamper alarm.

2015-03-24 11:07 GMT+01:00 njordan <norbert...@gmail.com>:

- What I see, and this makes me happy, does this really mean there is a TEMP sensor???? Because I was pretty sure - but with my old system I could not manage to get the TEMP out of the system.....great

Yep, there is a temperature sensor. Good if you like to keep monitored also your floor heating ;)

Btw there is also a tamp alarm in case the sensor is opened … a new parameter will come in the next openhab release (I asked to commit some missing parameters).

 

[njordan]

sorry - after spending quite some time - I have to say that my June'14-bought device already seemed to have LOW Battery....strange....as it still does start the Siren when flooded (guess the last thing working)...but zwave seems to be OFF when Battery starts to be low.....so replaced CR123 and now all works fine again....sorry and thanks for support. at least this way now I have the chance to also see the temperature on the floor!!!! like a lot.

Not sure if 9 months is a good result for battery life, guess it should be longer ~2years.....hm

[Andrea Riela]

Hi,

I’ve also had same results with battery, due to stressful first troubleshooting phase. But, let’s imagine what is the first reason of this device. I don’t think you will have a flood issue in your bathroom every hours, even every day ;)

just my two cents

Happy to hear how everything’s working fine.

Cheers

Andrea