Device Watchdog
Device's battery gets low
Device Watchdog
Battery, connectivity, and data-freshness monitoring for all your Homey devices.
Device Watchdog keeps an eye on all your Homey devices, so you don't have to. It tracks low battery, devices that have stopped sending new data, and devices Homey itself reports as unreachable - all in one place, with sensible defaults so nothing needs to be configured to get started.
Every device is monitored automatically; you can exclude individual devices or entire zones with a click, and fine-tune battery and reporting thresholds per device where needed. A manual reachability test, a running history log, optional Homey Timeline notifications, and a virtual status device for your Insights and dashboards round out the picture, alongside a full set of Flow cards for building automations around what it finds.
Supported devices
Flow cards
Click on a device above to show related Flow cards only.
When...
Fires when a scan (interval or manual) newly detects that the selected device's battery dropped to/below its threshold, or reports a battery alarm. For any device instead of one specific one, use "Devices with low battery are newly found".
Device Watchdog
Device stops reporting
Fires when a scan (interval or manual) newly detects that the selected device hasn't reported within its configured threshold. For any device instead of one specific one, use "Devices are newly found not reporting".
Device Watchdog
Device becomes unavailable
Fires in realtime for the selected device, directly via Homey's device availability event - independent of the interval scan and the settings toggle for it. For any device instead of one specific one, use "Devices newly become unavailable".
Device Watchdog
Devices with low battery are newly found
Fires once per scan, bundling every device that newly dropped to/below its battery threshold in that scan into a single trigger - instead of firing "A device's battery gets low" once per device.
Device Watchdog
Devices are newly found not reporting
Fires once per scan, bundling every device that newly stopped reporting in that scan into a single trigger - instead of firing "A device stops reporting" once per device.
Device Watchdog
Devices newly become unavailable
Fires in realtime, bundling every device that becomes unavailable within a few seconds of each other into a single trigger (e.g. after a mesh network hiccup) - instead of firing "A device becomes unavailable" once per device.
Watchdog status
The generic alarm turned on
Watchdog status
The generic alarm turned off
And...
Device Watchdog
Device has low battery
Checks whether a specific device was flagged with a low or alarming battery in the last scan.
Device Watchdog
Device isn't reporting
Checks whether a specific device was flagged as not reporting in the last scan.
Device Watchdog
Device is unavailable
Checks a specific device's live availability, as reported directly by Homey - independent of the interval scan.
Watchdog status
The generic alarm is on
Then...
Device Watchdog
Run device scan now
Runs a full device check immediately, independent of the automatic interval setting. Also works when the automatic scan is disabled in the app settings.
Support
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What’s new
Version 1.7.2 — condition card also respects the custom values for delay. Addes checkbox when applying settings to same-type devices, so individual devices can be excluded
Device Watchdog
This app can manage your entire Homey.
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