Owntracks Android battery monitoring in combination with device tracking

Installation Home Assistant OS
1

Hello,

I can’t get Owntracks device tracking and Android battery monitoring work at the same time. Device tracking uses HTTP connection (at least whites recommended) and Android battery monitoring uses MQTT. I can get both to work individually but not at the same time. Is there a way to use MQTT for device tracking with Owntracks or Android battery monitoring with HTTP?

Regards,
Mikael

2

Have you looked at the attributes that come with the device tracker? Add the device tracking, then look at the entity in the developer tools/states page. You should see all the attributes. Battery state should be one of them.

3

You are correct!

But how do I extract that attribute as a sensor value?

With MQTT I used :

- platform: mqtt
    state_topic: "owntracks/Micke/s10"
    name: "Phone Battery"
    unit_of_measurement: "%"
    value_template: '{{ value_json.batt }}'
    device_class: battery
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Use the device tracker entity

  - platform: template
    sensors:
      phone_battery:
        friendly_name: "Battery level"
        unit_of_measurement: '%'
        device_class: battery
        value_template: "{{ state_attr('device_tracker.MY_PHONE', 'battery_level') }}"
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Perfect, thanks!