šŸŖ« Low Battery Notifications & Actions

The guided use of Blueprints is simply fantastic, even for novices with no prior experience, thanks to the authorā€™s ingenuity!
However, the ā€˜Okay Confirmation Messageā€™ setting in the Blueprint settings is a bit confusing to me, as it seems to send an ā€˜Okay Confirmation Messageā€™ to a given target if no battery level drops below the specified value at any time the check is triggered. To be honest itā€™s not what I want, I just want to be reminded when I need it, but when I actually tested it I didnā€™t seem to get an alert when the battery was all fine (and I did get an alert if there was an abnormality)

@Collide3796

Welcome to the community and thanks for your kind words.

See below the options you have.

Hope this helps. If you have any questions just ask.

Blacky :smiley:

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@Blacky
Thanks for your quick reply. I know why I didnā€™t understand it before. My first reaction to the description of Okay Confirmation Message is that after turning it on, a confirmation button will be added to the notification, and the notification will disappear only when the confirmation button is pressed. Maybe itā€™s because my English is not very good that I made a jokešŸ¤£.

Maybe the Action Buttons function is what I understand as adding buttons to notification messages and adding family to-dos after pressing them? I tried the following configuration, but the notification message is the same as usual, and the button to add to-do is not found.

@Collide3796

There are two types of confirmation messages:

  1. No Low Batteries to Report:
    The first confirmation message appears when there are no low batteries to report. This serves as a reassurance that everything is functioning as expected and no action is needed.
  2. Action Button Confirmation:
    The second confirmation message is triggered when you press an action button. For example, if you choose to add the battery list to a to-do list, youā€™ll receive a confirmation message. Tapping this confirmation message will take you directly to your to-do list, allowing you to view and edit it as needed.

iPhone-Specific Interaction:

For iPhone users, thereā€™s a nuance to interacting with these messages due to how Apple handles notifications:

  • When you receive the low battery notification, tap, hold, and release to access the action button.
  • If you only tap the notification, it will dismiss the message, and you wonā€™t see the action button. Unfortunately, this behavior is determined by Appleā€™s system and cannot be adjusted.

Blacky :smiley:

@timo

This has nothing to do with this blueprint.

I ask you kindly remove / delete your post and stay on topic.

Blacky :smiley:

Great BP, thanks a lot for making it!

@remizik

Thanks for your post and your kind words.

Your welcome

Enjoy

Blacky :smiley:

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Brilliant, just perfect for a new user like myself, sent you a beerā€¦ :+1:

Terry / TrOjAn

@TrOjAn

Glade you like it and thanks for the beer!! :beers:

Blacky :smiley:

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Thanks for great blueprint! Installed it and worked great out of the box.
I was wondering if it works with categorized battery levels - I have Zigbee smoke detectors which report battery levels as ā€œhighā€, ā€œmediumā€ or ā€œlowā€:

alarm: false
battery_level: high
battery_low: false
fault_alarm: false
last_seen: '2025-01-12T13:48:35.852Z'
linkquality: 255
silence_siren: false
smoke: false
test_alarm: false

Is this supposed to work with all batteries by default? Or do I need to add each specific device under a custom group?

@gozdal

YES it should. But it will only report the batteries that have a ā€œlowā€ level.

Blacky :smiley:

@aflextwin

Yes

No. The custom group is if you would like to report batteries at a diffrent level. Example.

The blueprint reports all batteries it can find in Home Assistant. I have set my Battery Low Warning Level to 5%, so all batteries below this level will be reported. However, I donā€™t want my phoneā€™s battery to appear in the report, so I add it to the Excluded Battery Sensors list, and it is excluded.

For devices like blinds or curtains, where battery performance significantly drops at 30%, you can add their battery sensors to the Battery Sensors - Custom Group. Then, set the Custom Group - Battery Low Warning Level to 30%. Batteries in this custom group will be included in the report when they fall below 30%, while all other batteries will still be reported when they fall below 5%.

To avoid duplicate notifications, batteries in the custom group can also be excluded from the general report by adding them to Excluded Battery Sensors. This ensures they are only reported once, based on their specific warning level.

In the Easy Notify option Sensor Selection is were you would decide what batteries will be reported in the easy notification.

Blacky :smiley:

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Iā€™m not interested in the ToDo actions and have that option disabled in the blueprint, and the integration removed, but I get an error in HA repair section. Seems there is a required dependency, can we not have an option to completely disable that function?

This automation references the following actions, which are unknown to Home Assistant:
 todo.add_item
To fix this error, edit the automation and remove the use of these non-existing actions.