Low Battery ?

Is there a device attribute or trigger I can use to determine which of my devices need their batteries checked / changed ? I have scripts that periodically cycle through all my devices and would be delighted to add a little battery check routine into them.

It somewhat depends on what devices you have. Some provide good info about their battery state (typically z-wave) while others provide no, or little info. (Insteon motion sensors). I've seen For those that do report battery state, I just have a trigger that fires whenever the battery reading is below 20%. That trigger sends an email to remind me to replace the battery.

Here's a simple script I wrote a while back:

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# Send an email containing a list of devices that have a low battery.

target_level = int(indigo.variables[VARIABLE ID NUMBER].value)  # lowBatteryLevel
email_address = indigo.variables[VARIABLE ID NUMBER].value  # "notificationicationEmailAddress"
email_body = ""

for dev in indigo.devices.itervalues():
    if dev.batteryLevel:
        if dev.batteryLevel <= target_level:
            email_body = email_body + (u'%s battery level: %s\n' % (dev.name, dev.batteryLevel))

if email_body != "":
    indigo.server.sendEmailTo(email_address, subject="Indigo Low Battery Alert", body=email_body)


It should work in both Python 2.7 and 3.10.

Here's a simple script I wrote a while back:

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# Send an email containing a list of devices that have a low battery.

target_level = int(indigo.variables[VARIABLE ID NUMBER].value)  # lowBatteryLevel
email_address = indigo.variables[VARIABLE ID NUMBER].value  # "notificationicationEmailAddress"
email_body = ""

for dev in indigo.devices.itervalues():
    if dev.batteryLevel:
        if dev.batteryLevel <= target_level:
            email_body = email_body + (u'%s battery level: %s\n' % (dev.name, dev.batteryLevel))

if email_body != "":
    indigo.server.sendEmailTo(email_address, subject="Indigo Low Battery Alert", body=email_body)


It should work in both Python 2.7 and 3.10.

Sweet ... I'll give it a spin !