Battery alarm

What you get

On board

• Watch on the Hub: also runs if no phone or tablet is on board.
• Alarm at the Hub: ten long tones, about 7 seconds, once per alarm. The alarm output for a horn, flashing light or relay switches in the same rhythm.
• Notice in the app as long as it is open and connected to the Hub, with alarm sound and vibration. Tapping it opens the battery voltage history.
• Menu › “Alarms”, “Battery” card: current voltage with one decimal place (red below the value), your threshold with arrows, small voltage history with a line for the threshold, bell for the app’s alarm sound, switch. Frame grey off, green watching, red alarm, orange measurement lost.
• Full screen “Battery Voltage”: history over freely selectable periods, above it “Battery alarm triggers below {value} V” with a switch.
• Logbook: Switching on, changing, switching off, alarm, all clear, signal lost and back appear automatically in the logbook, also in the PDF.

Remotely

• Push notification to you as the owner for alarm, all clear, loss and return of the measurement (see Notifications).
• Boat monitoring: “Battery” tile with voltage and age of the value. If the alarm is watching, it shows ”< {value} V” with a green frame; if the voltage is at most 0.1 V above your value, the symbol turns orange; during an alarm a red frame and “Alarm”. Your Boat Buddies see this too.
• Logbook: the entries also appear in the cloud.

How it works

Switching on (on board)

1. Connect the app to the Hub and open Menu › “Alarms”.
2. On the “Battery” card, switch the switch on.
3. In the “Battery alarm” dialog enter your value, between 8 and 28 V, with a comma or a point.
4. Tap “OK”. The card gets a green frame.

Changing the value

• Tap the arrows next to the value, 0.1 V each, or tap the value and enter it anew.
• In the full screen “Battery Voltage” you also switch on and off and change the value.

Switching off

• Switch off the switch on the “Battery” card. The value is deleted in the process, and the next time you switch on you enter it anew.

Switching off the app’s alarm sound

• Bell on the “Battery” card. This applies to this phone or tablet only, until you switch it again or switch the alarm on anew.

Requirements

• A Smartboatia Hub supplied from the battery you want to monitor. The voltage is measured at the Hub’s power connection.
• For setting: app connected to the Hub. No internet, no account, no subscription.
• For push notifications: Hub connected to the cloud and internet at the Hub, without a subscription over a Wi-Fi with internet (marina Wi-Fi, router on board or hotspot of a phone or tablet), with the Standard subscription also over Hub cellular where there is a network (Hub cellular coverage map). On your phone or tablet the Smartboatia app version 1.30 or later, signed in and with notifications allowed (see Push notifications).

Permissions and subscription

Safety notice

Notifications

• The push notification names your set value, not the measured voltage. You see the current voltage in boat monitoring.
• There is no push notification for switching on, changing and switching off, and no all clear if you switch off a running alarm.

Messages and special cases

Offline behaviour

• Without internet the alarm runs entirely on board: Hub alarm, alarm output, notice in the app, logbook. Push notification and remote view are there if you connect the Hub to the cloud and it has internet, with the Standard subscription also over Hub cellular. Data only goes to the cloud if the Hub is connected to it.
• Hub restart: Switch and value are kept, the alarm resumes watching immediately. If the voltage is still low, the alarm starts again after 30 seconds, with tones, push notification and logbook entry.
• Remotely the tile shows the last known state with its age for a boat without a connection.