Hello all!
I am looking for the right configuration to display the battery status of my Philips Hue motion sensors on my Lovelace dashboard. I searched this forum and found two threads. Neither of them have really helped me yet.
My system:
Home Assistant 2021.5.5
Raspberry Pi 4 4GB with SSD
Conbee II zigbee stick
Z-Wave.Me stick
Who can help me with the right steps?
Thanks in advance!
I have this as a sensor but I am using a Hue hub.
platform: attributes
attribute: battery_level
unit_of_measurement: "%"
entities:
- sensor.back_yard_light_level
- sensor.front_yard_light_level
- sensor.kitchen_sensor_light_level
- sensor.lounge_sensor_light_level
- sensor.shed_light_level
- sensor.toilet_sensor_light_level
Edit: Check the developer tools > state page to see if your setup has the battery as an attribute on the motion sensor.
battery_level: 100
sensitivity: 0
sensitivity_max: 4
friendly_name: Back yard motion
device_class: motion
This is the code I entered:
guess this was used GitHub - pilotak/homeassistant-attributes: Breaks out specified attribute from other entities to a sensor
by lunatic as a custom integration
but you can do without that and use core template sensors
sensor:
- platform: template
sensors:
front_room_motion_sensor_battery:
friendly_name: Front room battery
value_template: >
{{state_attr('binary_sensor.front_room_sensor_motion','battery_level')}}
note this it the ‘legacy’ format for template sensors, you can rewrite this in the new template: format
Why don‘t you use the sensor.xxxxxxxx_battery_level and put it in a lovelace card?
Thanks guys for willing to help me. But I am a newby. I need a step by step explanation. The steps I have taken above lead to an error. What else should I do?
Is it activated?
Settings —> integrations —> Philips Hue —> entities
or
Settings —> entities —> search
What file did you add it to?
Yes I was thinking I missed something else that enabled this but couldn’t remember what it was.
Yes
Only in identitys are only the motion sensors. Not the battery level sensors
Are all entities displayed?(top most right: the upside down “pyramid”). I ask precautionary because you said you are new to HA.
I hope I understand you correctly, but my list of identities includes my motion sensors from hue. I have a total of 4 motion sensors.
You need to edit configuration.yaml, which I think you tried to do before, but you didn’t say where that screenshot was from. Add the following lines at the end of the file:
template:
- sensor:
- name: "Keuken sensor battery level"
unit_of_measurement: "%"
device_class: battery
state: "{{ state_attr('binary_sensor.keuken_sensor_motion', 'battery_level') }}"
- sensor:
- name: "Hal sensor battery level"
unit_of_measurement: "%"
device_class: battery
state: "{{ state_attr('binary_sensor.hal_sensor_motion', 'battery_level') }}"
Then restart HA and you should have a sensor.keuken_sensor_battery_level and another for hal that you can add to Lovelace. You can work out how to add the other two.
Thank you very much! With this configuration everything works perfectly. I can now add all sensors to my Lovelace dashboard. Thanks again!
yeah that is what I suggested here before. He needs the template sensors.
btw, you don’t need the - sensor: on each entity, a single key suffices.
Yes, I know: your recommendation was getting lost in a lot of chatter though!
Good catch on the format, this will also work:
template:
- sensor:
- name: "Keuken sensor battery level"
unit_of_measurement: "%"
device_class: battery
state: "{{ state_attr('binary_sensor.keuken_sensor_motion', 'battery_level') }}"
- name: "Hal sensor battery level"
unit_of_measurement: "%"
device_class: battery
state: "{{ state_attr('binary_sensor.hal_sensor_motion', 'battery_level') }}"