It would be nice to have an ability to input battery type for devices that are not powered by cord, so to know what type of battery a device needs when we get a low-battery reminder.
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I don’t know about Zigbee or Zwave but Matter has an attribute so the device can tell the type of battery it needs. They could use it if the device reports it, would be a nice “Home Insight” feature.
There are many interesting SmartThings capabilities but none of the stock drivers make use of them.
Matter drivers for instance only populate the battery percentage but not the quantity or type. Do they actually use that field for other devices?
If the driver provides the information about battery type and quantity, the recent change to the battery UI will display this arrow next to the percentage:
And it will display the type and quantity in a pop-up at the bottom:
However, most drivers don’t expose that information. In fact, the screenshots are just a test to see where that information appears, it does not belong to a published driver.
Is the information used somewhere else within the app?
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