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One automation for each battery was getting crazy. A temperature sensor in most rooms, motion detectors and a handful of door/window sensors. This blueprint creates an automation that manages all batteries dynamically. Really is amazing.

What blueprints do find useful?

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/low-battery-notifications-actions/653754

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[–] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I don’t understand, is this for keeping track of the charge level of battery powered sensors?

Also, the description in the page is painful to read. I haven’t gotten into HA yet but I’m keeping an eye on stuff I find interesting, but I really hope having to trudge through saccharine LLM output to understand what each project does isn’t the standard.

[–] CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It scans the network and dynamically adds or removes batteries which it then reports on percentage level, or if the battery status is unavailable. Pretty ingenious actually.

[–] CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

It's been around for years, so highly unlikely it's AI. I wouldn't call this a starting point for HA, but it did clean up my automations.

[–] SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Yes, that seems to be the aim here. Also note that this is being provided by a community member and is in no way affiliated with the HA team