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Low Battery Blueprint is awesome (lemmy.ca)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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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

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[–] 13 points 6 months ago

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.

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    [–] 12 points 6 months ago

    Omg ty

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    [–] 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    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.

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    • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    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.

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