How to read battery level from hue motion sensor?

Configuration
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Did someone know how to read the battery level from a hue motion sensor?

I can read the temperature: states.[entity-ID].state
in my case: states.sensor.hall_sensor_temperature.state

But how to read the battery level?

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Use the attributes sensor from hacs for the battery attribute from the ‘light level’ sensor.

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Thanks, but I think that I need some more help.
I tried with: states.sensor.hall_sensor_light_level.battery
but no success.

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Install hacs.

Go to the store.

Install the attributes integration.

In your configuration.yaml put

sensor:  
  - platform: attributes
    friendly_name: "Batteries"
    attribute: battery_level
    unit_of_measurement: "%"
    entities:
      - YOUR_LIGHT_LEVEL_SENSOR_1
      - YOUR_LIGHT_LEVEL_SENSOR_2
      - ETC

Restart homeassistant.

Add the new sensors to a card in your lovelace interface.

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Ran a quick search on the forum for this. Confirmed working using HassOS 3.5

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6

Thanks for this informations, it works and the battery level is now shown on all 3 entities the hue motion sensor has.
Now is it possible to use that in an automation to notify me if battery is below 20% or so?

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It seems to work without any additional stuff on the configuration.yaml.
Is it possible to set up a ‘Lovelace Gauge’ to show just the battery level, I’ve had no success at present?

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Found it here …