Battery capability to the Generic Z-Wave Garage Door Opener?

@bcopeland, would it be possible to add the "Battery" capability to the Generic Z-Wave Garage Door Opener?

The driver clearly knows about batteries, but since there is no battery attribute it's not possible to create a Notifier based on it. This makes for unfortunate surprises.

It's unclear if what is being transmitted is just a low battery indicator or a full level value. Not as great if it's just a low battery indicator, but perhaps we could have a reset button that resets it to 255/100 (similar to tamper clear) which would cover that case? Thanks.

Not to hijack this thread but personally I prefer voltage reporting if possible. I realize voltage is only approximate but with the nonlinearity of the battery discharge curve I find voltage to be a better indicator.

@bcopeland, never mind. I ended up writing a custom driver for the GoControl.

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