How to get the battery level?

johnflorin · December 4, 2019, 8:46am

Any idea how to activate the battery sensor from the latest release? On iOS they are added automatically when the integration is added, but in this case only the GPS device tracker was added.

Burningstone · December 4, 2019, 9:04am

Are you sure that battery level has already been fully implemented?

johnflorin · December 4, 2019, 9:20am

In the Play Store release notes it says it’s implemented Location and Battery Status…so ok, maybe not the level, just plugged/unplugged, but I see no other sensor besides the Device Tracker.

beireken · December 4, 2019, 9:45am

I’m not even seeing the device tracker. I have mobile_app in the config.
Is it supposed to automatically appear or added manually?

stigvi · December 4, 2019, 9:49am

I don’t get anything. Not the device tracker either. (Yes, the app has location permission)

Burningstone · December 4, 2019, 9:50am

Did you update to the latest version? Do you have mobile:app: in your configuration.yaml?

Burningstone · December 4, 2019, 9:51am

Just saw it now, somehow when I checked before it still showed me the release notes for the old version. That’s strange, I’ll check if I see the same behaviour when I’m at home.

johnflorin · December 4, 2019, 9:57am

I had to reinstall and onboard the app again to get the integration to show up initially.

xalex75 · December 4, 2019, 10:00am

Hi.
App is installed and updated (v. 1.1.1(32))
I added “mobile_app:” in configuration.yaml.
What should I do now to get battery and device tracker?

johnflorin · December 4, 2019, 10:01am

Is there a new item in Integrations?

xalex75 · December 4, 2019, 10:03am

“App configuration” menu just shows the app version.
I can’t see anything different.

johnflorin · December 4, 2019, 10:08am

I mean in HA’s Configuration, not App Configuration.

stigvi · December 4, 2019, 10:16am

Thanks. It’s working now

bilde

beireken · December 4, 2019, 10:18am

Ok, I just reinstalled. Seems to be working now!

xalex75 · December 4, 2019, 10:27am

I can’t see anything different in HA.
I’ll try to uninstall and reinstall app, like stigvi.

Burningstone · December 4, 2019, 10:43am

As you can see in @stigvi post, the battery level is an attribute of the device tracker id doesn’t have it’s own entity.

xalex75 · December 4, 2019, 10:44am

ok, a device tracker entity appeared, but without useful data yet

johnflorin · December 4, 2019, 10:48am

You are completely right! Thanks!

@xalex75, it was the same for me as well, give it a couple of minutes

xalex75 · December 4, 2019, 10:58am

should I do anything in known_devices.yaml or somewhere else?

actually in there I have my mobile configured for nmap:

MI_9T_Pro_lan:
hide_if_away: false
icon:
mac: 7C:D6:61:F0:0C:3B
name: Alex
picture: “/local/alex.png”
track: true

I installed the app on a samsung tablet too, at the moment it’s the same:

xalex75 · December 4, 2019, 12:31pm

Ok, data for my mobile appeared just now.
No data for the tablet yet, but it’s ok, it will probably take a little more.