Interesting 2420 Low Battery Notification Behavior

[gviliunas]

I am using a 2420M V2 motion sensor to control lights in my laundry room.

I arrived home yesterday evening to my laundry room light blinking on and off at about a 1-minute rate. Through a little investigation, I discovered that the battery was low in the 2420M through a series of "double blink" LED flashed when I entered the room.

 

I had configured ISY two ISY programs to watch for low battery. One program looked for an explicit low battery signal from the 2420M while the other program notifies me if motion had not been detedted in 72 hours. NEITHER of these two programs were triggered to warn me of the low battery condition. Hmmmmmm

 

I guess that the low battery condition node cannot be trusted to supply a reliablew low battery indication. Lights blinking on and off is not what I expected when this problem occurs. Has anybody else noticed this behavior?

 

Greg

[TJF1960]

Yes, that had happened to me also on 2 different rev2.0 motion sensors. I too had programs to watch for the low batt signal, but never received one. Unfortunately the ms only sends the low batt. signal once apparently.

 

I no longer use the Insteon motion sensors.

[biredale]

The lack of motion should have still worked... How did you implement this?

 

Cheers!

 

 

Brian

[SetMonkey13]

What do you use instead of insteon motion sensors?

 

I have had two crap out on my in the past month. They work fine for a bit and then there is no response.

[gviliunas]

SetMonkey13,

 

Did you try a factory reset. I had a motion sensor stop responding about a year ago. I performed a factory reset and that one is still working today.

 

Greg

[SetMonkey13]

I have tried a factory reset. Hopefully the new one will work. I really miss walking in my back door at night and having the lights pop on without a problem.