pimatic-max battery status of window contact

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Hey everybody!

I think, it would be nice, if you can check the battery status of the window contacts of the MAX! system. I have written some code in coffee with that you are able to output this. But my problem is, that in the mobile frontend this battery status is also shown besides the status of the contact. At the moment I have no idea to hide this. I think, that the template has to be changed, but actually I don’t understand this side of the plugins. Have to work with github and coffee Maybe someone could help me.

Thanks in advance!

@techbarney very cool! I missed this feature

@techbarney

Would also a cool feature for thermostats.

@thost96 acutal it works with thermostats:

if battery of id-thermostat is low then

@thost96

or like this:

{
      "id": "heating-battery",
      "name": "Batterylevel",
      "class": "VariablesDevice",
      "variables": [
        {
          "name": "Thermostat 1",
          "expression": "$thermostat1.battery",
          "type": "string",
          "label": "Thermostat 1",
          "acronym": "Thermostat 1"
        },
        {
          "name": "Thermostat 2",
          "expression": "$thermostat2.battery",
          "type": "string",
          "label": "Thermostat 2",
          "acronym": "Thermostat 2"
        },
        {
          "name": "Thermostat 3",
          "expression": "$thermostat3.battery",
          "type": "string",
          "label": "Thermostat 3",
          "acronym": "Thermostat 3"
        },
        {
          "name": "Thermostat 4",
          "expression": "$thermostat4.battery",
          "type": "string",
          "label": "Thermostat 4",
          "acronym": "Thermostat 4"
        },
        {
          "name": "Thermostat 5",
          "expression": "$thermostat5.battery",
          "type": "string",
          "label": "Thermostat 5",
          "acronym": "Thermostat 5"
        }
      ]
    }

This should be really simple to solve.
You must only add an battery attribute to the max contact device.

These battery types are supported. An simple boolean type which indicates good or bad and an percentage type with some stages.

        @attributes.lowBattery = {
          description: "the battery status"
          type: "boolean"
          labels: ["low", 'ok']
          icon:
            noText: true
            mapping: {
              'icon-battery-filled': false
              'icon-battery-empty': true
            }
        }    

        @attributes.battery = {
          description: "the battery status"
          type: "number"
          unit: '%'
          displaySparkline: false
          icon:
            noText: true
            mapping: {
              'icon-battery-empty': 0
              'icon-battery-fuel-1': [0, 20]
              'icon-battery-fuel-2': [20, 40]
              'icon-battery-fuel-3': [40, 60]
              'icon-battery-fuel-4': [60, 80]
              'icon-battery-fuel-5': [80, 100]
              'icon-battery-filled': 100
            }
        }

And the device needs a new battery variable to store the battery value. This variable must be actualized by the update event of the contact device.
https://github.com/georg90/pimatic-max-thermostat/blob/master/maxthermostat.coffee#L144

@Icesory Thanks for the hints!
I hope, that I can check it tomorrow and will ask if there are any questions

Ok I am working at the attribute, but there is one error, that i have to check again… sry!

https://github.com/georg90/pimatic-max-thermostat/issues/18

I’m sorry for the delay, had to done something else…

At the moment its working fine for me, so maybe someone else can check it?

https://github.com/techbarney/pimatic-max

If someone has improvement suggestions, I’m glad to hear these

Hello,
this entry is already old. Nevertheless I write here: Is it now possible to read the battery level of the window contacts? The debug output brings “battery:ok”, but when defining variables only the status “open” or “closed” is offered for the window contacts, no battery level.