One automation for each battery was getting crazy. A temperature sensor in most rooms, motion detectors and a handful of door/window sensors. This blueprint creates an automation that manages all batteries dynamically. Really is amazing.
What blueprints do find useful?
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/low-battery-notifications-actions/653754
10 Comments
prettygorgeous@aussie.zone · 12 pts · 135d
Omg ty
redknight942@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 135d
Home labs feel like that scene where someone uses 30 phones to call into a contest, wins, but cant figure out which one is ringing.
ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 135d
I don’t understand, is this for keeping track of the charge level of battery powered sensors?
Also, the description in the page is painful to read. I haven’t gotten into HA yet but I’m keeping an eye on stuff I find interesting, but I really hope having to trudge through saccharine LLM output to understand what each project does isn’t the standard.
CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 134d
It scans the network and dynamically adds or removes batteries which it then reports on percentage level, or if the battery status is unavailable. Pretty ingenious actually.
CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 134d
It's been around for years, so highly unlikely it's AI. I wouldn't call this a starting point for HA, but it did clean up my automations.
SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 134d
Yes, that seems to be the aim here. Also note that this is being provided by a community member and is in no way affiliated with the HA team
acceptable_pumpkin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 135d
I wrote some flows and functions in Node Red to send me a daily email with a list of all devices < 10% battery, but what I’m noticing is that several of my battery devices aren’t properly updating their status. I need to update it to also email me on unavailable battery devices too I guess.
CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 134d
Or just use this blueprint and it's all done for you.
DeathByDenim@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 134d
I'm not quite sure how reliable these battery indicators are. I have a thirdreality moisture sensor at 0% for a week now. Still the original battery too, so you'd think that was actually properly calibrated. 😆
So I just go with the unavailable and deal with it then. Though the notification automation that I made for that did break at some point. I need to figure that one out again.
CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 134d
This automation also handles unavailable.