More metadata about battery and communication status

[technicalpickles]

I have like 6 Schlage Connects, and 3 of them are in various states of flakiness. When I look at HomeAssistant, there isn't really anything to indicate that there are problems iwth them, except for 1 that has 0% battery.

It'd be super useful to have additional metadata. I started poking around a VeraDoor object to see what kinda of data the API already has. A few fields seem relevant:

• BatteryDate: seconds since epoch... for hte last time the battery changed?
• CommFailure: seems to be 0 or 1
• CommFailureDate: seconds since epoch since CommFailure?
• PollOk: no idea, but it's an integer
• LastPollSuccess: no idea what it considers a success, since most of the ones I'm seeing are pretty far back

Here's a snippet I'm playing with, based on the list-devices:

import sys
import time
import os
import IPython
from IPython import embed

# Import pyvera
import pyvera

# Parse Arguments
import argparse
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='list-devices')
parser.add_argument('-u', '--url', help="Vera URL, e.g. http://192.168.1.161:3480", required=True)
args = parser.parse_args()

# Start the controller
controller, _ = pyvera.init_controller(args.url)

try:
    # Get a list of all the devices on the vera controller
    all_devices = controller.get_devices()

    # Print the devices out
    for device in all_devices:
        if type(device).__name__ == "VeraLock":
            #  embed()

            print('{} ({})'.format(device.name, device.device_id))
            poll_ok = device.get_complex_value('PollOk')
            if poll_ok is not None:
                print('PollOk: {}'.format(poll_ok))
                last_poll_success = device.get_complex_value('LastPollSuccess')
                if last_poll_success is not None:
                    print('LastPollSuccess: {}'.format(time.ctime(int(last_poll_success))))
            print('BatteryLevel: {}%'.format(device.battery_level))
            print('BatteryDate: {}'.format(time.ctime(int(device.get_complex_value('BatteryDate')))))
            comm_failure = device.get_strict_value('commFailure')
            print('CommFailure: {}'.format(comm_failure))
            if comm_failure != '0':
                print('CommFailureDate: {}'.format(time.ctime(int(device.get_complex_value('CommFailureTime')))))
            print('Status: {}'.format(device.get_value('status')))
            print()

finally:
    # Stop the subscription listening thread so we can quit
    controller.stop()

[pavoni]

Sorry for the long delay - would welcome a PR to add something to the examples directory if you'd like to do this.

Closing the issue for now.