Access to sensor diagnostics (battery, signal strength, etc.)

@krstrick  Your suggestion for battery strength is excellent. While available on the outdoor cameras, this indeed would be a great add for all sensors. As far as signal strength, and more, if you look at your phone app you will note the Connection Check Tool.  It is excellent for an indepth analysis of your sensors' connection and nicely done.

For SS, adding the connection check tool to the website dashboard and giving us battery strength view will be great for customers and your support agents. (And yes, if you were wondering, please respond you read this thread and will pass along to the crack and elite SS development team! HO HO HO

Be nice if was an update to show all the sensors battery strength in the app. 

I'm having a similar issue with one of three sirens sounding upon entry ( delayed door sensor). Normally it quietly chimes from the station but now the sirens are sounding (not a full fledged alarm). Research indicates a siren may need new batteries but which one?

Would be nice if app could tell me the exact unit that needs the batteries replaced. 

First off, I must commend the thought and engineering which went into the product. Setup was pretty straightforward and your tech support is patient and knowledgeable. Now the suggestion:

I agree with the sensor battery status for the app for all the reasons mentioned above. I would also like to see the signal strength. My contact today could have taken much less of your rep's time if I had access to the signal strength of each sensor. Most of the time was spent testing locations to get a stronger signal strength on one sensor. The fix required a new location for the base station.

Again, so far a great group of products. I intend to add additional sensors and confirming there is sufficient signal will require a call to your tech support. After all, time is money.

Thanks!

I've been able to convert Simplisafe battery "normal" to percentages, however, whether it works or not is still to be determined. None have depleted yet to know.

If the battery integration in Home Assistant works, they "should" send me a message at 30 percent as the battery levels fall. Hopefully a lot sooner than SS which seems to be after the battery is already dead. Once lithiums start depleting, it's usually fairly rapid to failure.

The red one is a Ring V2 keypad I'm tinkering with for my other DIY alarm system in Home Assistant and not completely setup yet in the battery integration.

I would like to add my request for battery percentage readings within the app. Nothing is worse than getting a battery low warning when you are out of town and can do nothing about it. 

Same view here, my system has been running about a year now. I can see when the cameras will need charging in the app but there’s no indication if all the door and motion sensors are almost dead or half used. I’d rather not get drip fed 15 random alerts of device not responding over the course of a few weeks

IT’S CRAZY that battery levels of all devices are not more available and also much more specific, meaning shown as a percentage! Please add this feature to the app asap AND please also show the current battery level as a percentage on the Home Screen of the keypad as well! I  have had a couple occasions where I came in the house late night when the rest of my family was sleeping, went to punch in the code to my keypad only to find that the battery was dead! Then had to scramble like crazy to pull out my phone, open the app and enter the passcode there before the alarm started blaring and scaring the hell out of everyone in the middle of the night! This info should be much more top level and intuitive. Please fix this ASAP, it’s really important for every day use And is a significant hole in an otherwise robust system.

Heres what data I'm able to get in my home brewed system.

Whether the SS batteries are able to report I haven't determined yet, one has to go low.

So, I guess I'll keep the HAOS Simplisafe integration for geofence arming and disarming & toast the battery trials as a fail. 

I get the door sensor is not responding voice message fairly frequently and I had assumed this would be the same for motion sensors. I discovered a couple of days ago my motion sensors were not talking to the base station/keypad. I tried the test mode and nothing happened when pressing the button. I removed the batteries, waiting 30s and put them back in and they started working. 

I've not had any warnings that they are not responding, the system just lets them go inactive and not realise. I've no idea how long they have been effectively turned off for.

If they updated the system to show signal strength and battery level then the system should also see that the motion sensors are not updating and there might be an issue

I would like this to be implemented too.

I currently have 43 sensors of different types. If l go away for a week or two, l don’t want to have to change all the batteries  on the chance that a sensor battery nearing depletion might go flat and stop working while l’m gone. 

This really would be a useful feature. 

Craig