Enabling battery status for Shims devices

I'm working on adding battery status to Shims devices. If you have devices that report battery status, please post the device type, topic, and payload for the report. Also what kind of Shim device you're using.

For my Wyze devices. These are OnOff sensors (motion detectors) and Value sensors (temp, humidity).

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<prefix>/wyze/update --> {"address": "778D7038", "sensor_type": "switch", "state": "open", "battery": 90, "signal": 24}


Shelly H&T

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shellies/shellyht-E0100C/sensor/battery --> XX

Raw payload number in percentage of battery level

Shelly H&T

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shellies/shellyht-E0100C/sensor/battery --> XX

Raw payload number in percentage of battery level

That one is going to be tough. I'm going to have to map two different topics into one Indigo device. Tricky.

This one might be outside your scope...

LOLIN (Wemos) ESP8266 D1 MiniPro with backup battery. Device flashed with Tasmota 6.6.0

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indigo/sensor/tele/STATE --> {"Time":"2020-01-31T13:21:28","Uptime":"76T21:16:34","Vcc":3.538,"Heap":23,"SleepMode":"Dynamic","Sleep":65,"LoadAvg":14,"Wifi":{"AP":1,"SSId":"Guest","BSSId":"FE:EC:DA:BA:17:E6","Channel":11,"RSSI":88,"LinkCount":4150,"Downtime":"0T05:17:07"}

I use the Vcc value and display this as an MQTT Shims Value Sensor device Battery level.

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This one might be outside your scope...

LOLIN (Wemos) ESP8266 D1 MiniPro with backup battery. Device flashed with Tasmota 6.6.0

Pass on that one. The Indigo UI wants a 0-100 percentage for the client display, and I don't want to figure out how to normalize a Vcc value.

Shelly H&T

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shellies/shellyht-E0100C/sensor/battery --> XX

Raw payload number in percentage of battery level

That one is going to be tough. I'm going to have to map two different topics into one Indigo device. Tricky.

Looks the same as the Shelly Door/Window sensor and I get the battery readout or am I missing something in your request ?

Looks the same as the Shelly Door/Window sensor and I get the battery readout or am I missing something in your request ?

I expected those two to report the same. Thanks for the confirmation.

I started with 2 new batteries and it gave 100 so to double check I swapped out 1 battery with a used one and got the following

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I started with 2 new batteries and it gave 100 so to double check I swapped out 1 battery with a used one and got the following

I'm not sure what you're trying to show me. The MQTT Explorer window shows the device is reporting battery at 94%.

The plugin won't do anything different yet, I haven't released a version with battery support yet. This is what you'll get eventually:

So getting this to work for devices that put the battery state in a JSON payload was easy. I'm still not sure how I'm going to make this work for devices that use a specific topic and a raw payload.

I ordered a Shelly H&T so I have a device to test with.