Dashboard battery state

gd02 · March 19, 2021, 1:06am

I've noticed that some templates, like Window show the battery charge, but Door and Garage don't...

Any way to change that? Or can we pout that in as a feature request? Nice to have battery charge on the dashboard. If I change the door or garage sensor to the Window template, I get the battery, so I know it's just the template, not the sensor.

Thanks.

thebearmay · March 19, 2021, 1:31am

I generally just do a tile overlay with a little CSS to get the single tile effect. For example displaying the temperature in addition to the normal attributes on the contact senor.

PNG image contact sensor.

TomG · March 19, 2021, 1:43am

This is what I use for battery reporting.

Looks like I need to put a fresh battery in an IKEA blind

dadarkgtprince · March 19, 2021, 2:50am

it might be a tertiary field. i have that issue with my motion sensor, but on my contact sensors it's a secondary

gd02 · March 19, 2021, 4:48pm

Thanks for all the tips.

But, I don't understand why when I use the exact same sensor for:

Door Template - no battery
Window Template - shows battery

It would just be nice to have battery on a door. Just seems an odd design choice.

marcusvrsilva · March 20, 2021, 5:53pm

I agree this addition would be great, but to solve this problem I used Hubigraphs and made tiles showing the battery status of my sensors.

gd02 · April 6, 2021, 7:02pm

Interesting. If I go into the dashboard, Settings -> Options -> Hide Tile Template Names, then I get the battery percent for both door and garage. Works for me. Don't need the template names...