Is there any wireless chargers that integrate with hubitat hopefully there's one that plugs into the wall and one that's battery operated. Just found out that my Motorola edge on AT&t 5G is wireless compatible.
Curious 
- what would you like to see in a cell phone charger in terms of an integration with Hubitat? I cannot recall any other threads where this request has come up, and thus I am interested in what you're hoping for.
I have seen discussions where people plugged their phone chargers into a smart outlet with power reporting capabilities. They could then turn off the outlet either after a certain amount of time, or when their phone reached a certain charge level. Personally, I think most modern smart phones are really pretty good at handling their own charging functionality, and thus I have never pursued this type of automation.
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Another use case here would be something like what I do. I have this setup for the chargers for my wife and I by the bed. I use the power reporting to trigger automations for us going to bed.
Aside from that, with you in that I can't think of many reasons why this would be useful, but everyone has their own use cases I suppose.
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Not sure if this was the intention, but I have tried to manage charging of my phone on one outlet at least based on the battery percentage reported via Tasker and the Kasa plus the charger is plugged into. I tend to think along similar lines to @ogiewon that modern devices are likely smart enough to manage the battery better than I can with my rules, but it was at least interesting to setup....
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Would like to see what the battery percentage of the phone is and how many watts the battery is taking in and how many amps and how long it will take to charge the phone from a dashboard.
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I don't think a wireless charger could do some of that. You may want to look at Tasker as @sburke781 mentioned.
Perhaps it could tell you current draw and charge rate, but i would tend to guess it won't know what the battery level is on the device.
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I agree with others, for the most part this doesn’t seem like information one could reasonably expect to pull from the device that’s charging your phone, except the phone’s current draw as the battery charges.
The phone itself has access to that kind of info of course, so there’s probably a way to make use of that on android at least, as others have also mentioned.
Wireless charging is mostly just an alternative method of getting electrons to flow and complete a circuit (thus allowing the battery to charge) without relying entirely on copper wiring. There’s no data transmitted through this particular wireless technology (in everyday consumer use, at least).
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