I love this integration! It is extremely helpful.
I have two sensors out of 8 that are reporting Battery status of “Unknown”. The sensors appear to be reporting data correctly. Similar devices are showing battery levels as I expected.
What does “Unknown” mean?
Glad you like the integration!
Looking at your screenshots that appears to be the devices battery sensor, rather than battery notes Battery+ sensor.
That’s not something battery notes controls so it’s an issue with that device, sometimes they don’t report batteries for a while when first paired.
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Ok - thanks. They did show 100% battery after a day.
I’m looking for a new way to follow up my batteries and came up across this integration.
Not sure if it will finally lead to what i want.
Nowadays, i get (using blueprint) a HA app message i need to replace/reload battery x
However that message sometimes comes at a difficult time or i forget it or…
So i want to get rid of those messages.
I also have a dashboard where i can manually see every battery but it filles up space and i dont want to see it when its full (yes i could use auto entities there)
However, i have something different in mind.
If theres a battery beneath threshold i want it to be addded to my todo list (+ containing which battery or reload)…
If i click the todo item, then my battery is replaced.
I would also like to see a conditional card that shows a sensor if theres at least 1 battery to reload/replace. (or theres such item on the todo list)
IS this all doable?
Should i use battery notes for it?
I’m still looking for the best way to do battery things
Thx for the advice here
Hi, to answer your questions.
Yes, there are examples that post a notification but you can easily change that to add to a todo list, along with the battery type/quantity.
Ticking off the item won’t mark it as replaced, but there’s an example automation that will do that when the battery rises above a certain value.
Conditional cards using Auto Entities or Battery State card are possible.
Have a read of the community documentation.
Cool will try with todo.
The conditional card: i dont want to use auto entities or battery state. I just want a mushroom template card that shows text that there is a battery low. (at least 1)
As soon as there are no batteries low, it should disappear.
How can i do that?
I’m not much of a card person so don’t know how you would do that with mushroom but I know lots of people here and on the Battery Notes discussions are so maybe someone else can suggest that.
Cool just installed the integration 
thank you for that!
Where can i find the discussions? its not here?
There’s also a dedicated discussion area on the GitHub repo which has a lot of helpful people.
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ok thx, last thing, i have a lot of batteries which arent discovered (eufy devices rechargable) and other xiaomi humidity devices etc etc
I need to add manually?
Yes, there’s over 1000 devices in the library but there’s a lot out there.
You can also help others by adding to the library via a simple form.
https://andrew-codechimp.github.io/HA-Battery-Notes/library/
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Will do
Tried the todo but i get error.
Heres the code
sequence:
- service: todo.add_item
metadata: {}
data:
item: {{ trigger.event.data.device_name }} Batterij laag. Nodig {{
trigger.event.data.battery_quantity }}× {{
trigger.event.data.battery_type }}
target:
entity_id: todo.to_do If you are trying to run the automation to test it then you will get an error.
The trigger.event stuff isn’t available when running it manually which makes testing a right pain.
No, i just pushed the “check configuration”
I’ve posted a complete example over in the discussion you started on GitHub.
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thx you so much
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Good afternoon. Sounds like a great integration, but I’m having a problem installing it. I added it through HACs, then rebooted. Next in HA I started adding the Battery Notes integration but it asked about Devices or Entities. I couldn’t find anything in your documents describing the different methods.
So I tried the default, Devices, and it asked me for the device name. So I stopped there, it confused me. I have, let’s say, 15 battery operated device. Do I add the integration 15 times, once for each battery?
I assume not, so which device to I use when adding the custom component?
Thank you
Before reboot, did you do this as noted in the docs?
Important
Add the following entry to your configuration.yaml
battery_notes:
I did read that, I was confused by it, I thought it was only needed if you didn’t install through HACs. I confused it with all the manual install notes on these HAC’s integrations. Looking at it now, it was pretty clear.
But even after adding that and rebooting, it’s still confusing me. It discovered a load, maybe all of my batteries. I don’t think that the docs are clear, do I configure those first, or add the integration first? If I add the integration first, it wants me to respond to each of the devices it found.
You dont need to add the integration cause you did at that config line.
Now you only need to click that configure button for eacht battery it autodetects