Battery status with Google maps location tracker

Feature Requests
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It seems that battery status is now visible with google maps location sharing, it would be nice to have this available in home assistant.

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Is this exposed as an attribute?

If so a template sensor can easily turn the attribute into a sensor.

https://github.com/SilvrrGIT/HomeAssistant/blob/master/sensors.yaml#L209

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Not currently, I think the component needs to be updated.

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Any progress or is the component development dead?

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I am also interested in this speech

6

Same here, would love this.

7

In the latest locationsharinglib update i.e 3.0.2 battery level and charging status has been added. but Iā€™m not able to see the same in my home assistant sensor. is there any special configuration that i need to do ?

Can any one please help !!

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Looks like the library was updated in HA with the following pull request, so I guess this should be arriving pretty soon.

https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/17294

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@Hitesh_Singh actually looks like it went live in the latest release I can battery it in my entities this morning :slight_smile:

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I have Google Maps Location history, 3 devices sharing location with main google account,
I can track devices and use it but cannot get the battery level

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Are you on the latest 0.80 version of HA? The library was only updated recently. I can confirm that its working on the two devices I have set up on my system here.

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Is it possible to have the battery % as sensor?

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It is now that the battery status is reported;

  - platform: template
    sensors:
      phone_battery:
        friendly_name: 'Phone Battery'
        value_template: '{{states.device_tracker.google_maps_000000000000000000000.attributes.battery_level | round}}'
        unit_of_measurement: '%'
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im on , 0,803 , and this is not yet working , no battery status so far for maps .