Eminent Motiondetector (EM6580)

[Superhuub]

Recently I bought this, but I have a complaint about the battery life. Two days and new alkaline batteries are empty. In HS the last reported battery status is 70%. After this the device is not reacting, because the voltage is to low, I guess. Also the Eminent is not working on rechargeable batteries.

Does anybody had a better battery experience? Maybe I am have something wrong in my setup... I can not imagine that Eminent makes a battery powered product with such a short battery life. In my opinion the battery should live at least for three months in my motion detector.

Best regards, Huub.

[airox]

I don't know anything about the sensor or HomeSeer, but judging by the battery life and my experience with the HSM100 I would suggest to check if the device is put to sleep again by HomeSeer or that the device is configured to go back to sleep after reporting motion. This was the configuration I did on the HSM100 which also woke up, reported it was woken up and got back to sleep if you didn't send anything back when it woke up. If you did send anything back (like checking the motion status) you also needed to send a command back to it to put it to sleep. It could be that when it detects motion that it sends a basic binary report on which you have to respond with an ACK but ALSO send a put to sleep message.

But again, I don't know anything about the HomeSeer support for wakeup devices

[Superhuub]

Thanks for your answer. I did verify in the manual that the EM6580 should go to sleep after a motion-detection event. After reading this I did some verification in Homeseer to be sure that the EM6580 really sleeps after 10 seconds. Because I have no better we to verify this I try to ‘optimize’ this device for z-wave communication after 10s. If there is a communication error in the HS log, than I believe the EM6580 sleeps. It is also possible to configure a wakeup interval for the purpose of battery status, which I left default a 240 min.

Now the last status of my EM6580 is that it is ‘game over’. Even with a set new 1,5v alkaline batteries, the device did not warm up anymore (no red led indication) and also z-wave include / exclude did not work anymore. I did go back to the shop for a new one. At this moment I am experiencing how this one behaves with the batteries and the rest.

In the meantime, if anybody has a good experience with the EM6580, I am looking forward to hear.

regards, Huub.

[frank2059]

Hi Huub,

I got an EM6580 also and it runs on the same batteries for months.
Did you adjust the screw (t +)?
My sensor updates its status to HS once in the 20 mins. I think.

See you,

Huub

P.s. alles goed bij Vosko?