My own version of a battery monitor that can warn a bit ahead of time.
/**
- Battery Monitor
- Copyright 2014 Anders Heie
- Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except
- in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed
- on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License
- for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
*/
definition(
name: “Battery Monitor”,
namespace: “Pope”,
author: “Anders Heie”,
description: "Monitors all Battery levels and sends a notification if lower than a set threshold. A Button allows an immediate check. ",
category: “Convenience”,
iconUrl: “https://s3.amazonaws.com/smartapp-icons/Convenience/Cat-Convenience.png”,
iconX2Url: “https://s3.amazonaws.com/smartapp-icons/Convenience/Cat-Convenience@2x.png”)preferences {
section(“Battery Settings”) {
input “threshold”, “number”, title: “Alert when below…”, required: true
input “batteries”, “capability.battery”, title: “Which devices?”, multiple: true
input “theTime”, “time”, title: “Time to battery check every day”
}
}def installed() {
log.debug “Installed with settings: ${settings}”
initialize()
}def updated() {
log.debug “Updated with settings: ${settings}”
unschedule()
initialize()
}def initialize() {
//schedule the job // http://docs.smartthings.com/en/latest/smartapp-developers-guide/scheduling.html schedule(theTime, doBatteryCheck) //run at install too doBatteryCheck()}
def doBatteryCheck() {
log.debug “doBatteryCheck called at ${new Date()}”def belowLevelCntr = 0def pushMsg = “”
for (batteryDevice in batteries) {
def batteryLevel = batteryDevice.currentValue(“battery”)
log.debug “${batteryDevice.name} ‘${batteryDevice.label}’ battery: ${batteryLevel}% versus alarm at ${settings.threshold}”
if ( batteryLevel <= settings.threshold ) {
pushMsg += “${batteryDevice.name} ‘${batteryDevice.label}’ battery: ${batteryLevel}% \n”
belowLevelCntr++
}
}if (belowLevelCntr ){ pushMsg = "You have ${belowLevelCntr} devices below the set alarm level ${settings.threshold}% \n" + pushMsg } else { pushMsg = "Battery Check App executed with no devices below ${settings.threshold}%" } log.debug(pushMsg) sendPush(pushMsg)}
