[RELEASE] AlertMe Device Drivers with Presence

Code Archives Hubitat Apps and Drivers
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There are a few UK devices from AlertMe which aren’t in the Iris V1 system drivers right now, so examining some code from the past and with @markus’s invaluable help deciphering the data block, I present my first drivers!

There’s every possibility that these will work with their Iris V1 equivalents as well, given that generation of Iris was built on the AlertMe platform.

They all have presence detection for troubleshooting and system control (using key fobs) plus a ‘ranging mode’ for checking link quality (LQI). While in ranging mode device LEDs will double-flash to show a good quality link, or triple flash if the LQI is poor. This measurement is transmitted back to the Hub and shown on the device page.

It’s also handy if you have a pile of devices in front of you and you’ve forgotten which is which. :wink:

Driver Import

Usual method to install, just head to Drivers Code from the Advanced section of the side bar, click New Driver and Import. Paste in the RAW URL from below and hit Save.

The Alarm Sensor also mimics a Motion Sensor as the sound detection capability is not supported in all areas of Hubitat just yet. The driver reports both sound and ‘motion’.

The Lamp is a desktop indicator rather than a room-illuminating ‘bulb’, with the ability to run sequences based on RGB colours, fade duration and dwell times. The Lamp has an internal battery and should (!) act as a repeater.

Power usage in Watts, power summary in Kilowatt-hours, battery voltage and percentage, temperature and device uptime.

Relay on and off, power usage in Watts, power summary in Kilowatt-hours, battery presence, voltage, percentage and charging state, supply presence, state mismatch (for warning when there is load demand but the supply has failed) and temperature (skewed and roughly corrected). These outlets also act as repeaters on mains and battery power, so their feature set is pretty much the best I’ve ever found.

Device Maintenance

If your smart plugs power down when unplugged from the supply, their internal rechargeable batteries have expired. Here’s how to replace them, after which they’ll run for ages with mains power off.

The Future

There are no doubt errors and omissions, pull requests are gratefully received!

If you do end up using these, please post here to let me know, always good to hear that someone’s finding such things useful.

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[RELEASE] Salus SP600 Smart Plug with Presence
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Just a note to say that if you have an AlertMe SmartPlug with 2010-10-20 firmware, it’s likely that after 6 months or so you may need to give it a little nudge to keep it reporting correctly.

It seems there’s a memory leak in the internal firmware where the device remains controllable but no longer reports any data. You’ll see that powering it on and off remotely is perfectly fine, but it doesn’t transmit any responses back to the hub.

The fix is easy, just trigger a reboot of the plug by holding down the power button for 12 seconds. Later firmware appears to have fixed this bug.

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I’ve just updated all of these drivers to properly handle IAS enrolment requests (security devices) and match descriptor (cluster 0006) requests, which occur when AlertMe devices feel they need to be ‘re-authenticated’, usually following a battery replacement.

It was pretty sketchy as to when this was required; just removing the battery from a device and reinstalling it didn’t often trigger the need to re-enrol, but a device where the battery had become exhausted naturally would often not do anything except for send repeated enrolment requests when a new battery was installed.

This made battery replacement time a nightmare as some devices just wouldn’t reattach to the mesh, sometimes even needing to be deleted, reset and re-joined. This all appears to be fixed now.

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