GPS Logger Extract Battery Info

Configuration
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Hello Guys,
I need your help… I’m not able to extract battery info from GPS Logger entities.

this is my sensor config, what’s wrong?

- platform: template
  sensors:
      Nico_SGS6_Battery:
        battery:
        value_template: '{{ states.device_tracker.05157df5109bbb23.battery }}'
        friendly_name: 'Nico Battery'
        unit_of_measurement: '%'
        entity_id: device_tracker.05157df5109bbb23
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Have you tried to use

states.device_tracker.05157df5109bbb23.battery.state

instead of

states.device_tracker.05157df5109bbb23.battery

or a

'{{ states("device_tracker.05157df5109bbb23.battery") | int }}'

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Sorry, I know this is an old topic here.
I run into the same error and found that template sensors don’t work on entities where the name starts with a number.
(there is a post about it somewhere here, but I can’t find it anymore)

I fixed this by prefixing the entity name with logger.
To do this I copied the gpslogger.py from github to

custom_components/device_tracker/gpslogger.py

change line 57 from

        device = data['device'].replace('-', '')

to

        device = 'logger_'+data['device'].replace('-', '')

This now names the device device_tracker.logger_< some number > and now my templates work.
Hope this helps someone.

I should work out how to do a pull request and add it there…

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Hi,
Just helping out here. You needed an “attributes” added to your object to get the value. Like this:

- platform: template
  sensors:
      Nico_SGS6_Battery:
        battery:
        value_template: '{{ states.device_tracker.05157df5109bbb23.attributes.battery }}'
        friendly_name: 'Nico Battery'
        unit_of_measurement: '%'
        entity_id: device_tracker.05157df5109bbb23

Notice the attributes in
{{ states.device_tracker.05157df5109bbb23.attributes.battery }}

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