Lovelace Climate Card Battery Level

[datzent83]

So I got my Z-Wave thermostat up and running. Everything works and looks great. However, I can’t figure out how to display the battery level of the thermostat within the climate pop-up. I see the battery level in the state page. I need to show the battery level for climate.first_floor_heat. All the other ones are powered with a C wire.

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#Thermostat Tab
  - icon: mdi:mdi:thermometer
    panel: false
    cards:
      - type: entities
        title: Climate
        entities:
          - climate.basement_heat
          - climate.first_floor_heat
          - climate.second_floor_heat
          - climate.guest_room
          - climate.kids_room
          - climate.living_room
          - climate.master_bedroom
          - climate.basement_ac
          - switch.qubino_zmnhbdx_flush_2_relays_switch_4
          - switch.boiler_main_switch

[silvrr]

I am not aware of a means to put it into the thermostat card without making a custom card.

If you just want to pull that data into a sensor, see the example below.

https://github.com/SilvrrGIT/HomeAssistant/blob/master/sensors/zwave_batteries.yaml#L14

If you have a lot of battery powered sensors, you may want to look into something like this

Howto create battery alert without creating a template for every device

Edit May 14th, 2019: The latest code and instructions are available on GitHub at: Original post: I have many battery powered devices that have various methods to track battery level. Some of my devices have a separate entity that just represents battery while most of them have a battery_level attribute. To make it even more complex, I have some devices that report an 0-100 integer and others that use strings (Low, Medium, Full, etc.). I’ve been wanting a way to identify any batteries that…

[datzent83]

I already created a sensor template for the battery level. How do I go about making a custom card for this?

- platform: template
  sensors:
    second_floor_thermostat_battery_level:
      value_template: "{{ states.zwave.second_floor_heat.attributes.battery_level }}%"

[123 (Taras)]

@datzent83

How do I go about making a custom card for this?

Have you considered using one of the existing cards? For example the Gauge card or the Sensor card?

[datzent83]

How would that give me control over my thermostat to set the heat state and target temperature?

[123 (Taras)]

The Gauge card will display the value (battery-level) of template sensor you created (second_floor_thermostat_battery_level). Yes, it will be displayed separately from the Thermostat card.

If you want the battery-level to be displayed within the Thermostat card then, yes, you will need a custom card to do that.

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EDIT

Here is a custom thermostat card that might interest you.

Lovelace: Simple thermostat card

Driven by a want for a simpler thermostat card in terms of interactions and usability, that would also be more flexible and make information clearer I’ve built this card for Lovelace, simple-thermostat. I need to give a lot of credit to @magnus.overli as a faithful tester and having at least 50% of the needs that we’ve tried to cover with this card [59] As you can see the main difference is that it replaces the round dial with simple buttons and it presents relevant entity a…

Why this card might useful to you is because it can be configured to show values from other sensors:

With configuration you can hide all of the information pairs as well as add custom sensor values (like humidity) that is relevant. Examples of sensor values can be humidity, outdoor temperature, energy usage today and so on.

[datzent83]

Are there any detailed guides to setup a custom card? Although I am comfortable with light coding, I never coded a custom card.

[silvrr]

https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/en/lovelace_custom_card.html