Nest Binding 2.2 - low_battery

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Hi,
i got the Nest Binding 2.2 working fine and i get back values for:

  • manual_test_active
  • co_alarm_state
  • smoke_alarm_state
  • ui_color_state
  • low_battery

Wait “low_battery” ? Why “low_battery” ?.
I am asking this cause i stumbled over this page:
https://developers.nest.com/documentation/cloud/api-smoke-co-alarm#battery_health

I can find all API calls except “low_battery”. I can find “battery_health” which gives back a string and 2 options as value “OK” and “replace”.

I tried to create an item using battery_health instead of low_battery, but it didn’t work. Only the undocumented low_battery is giving back “OFF” for battery is ok. But do i get back an “ON” if the battery is low or has to be replaced?

Can someone comment on the 2 different API calls please and try to explain this to me please?

Thank you very much
Andreas

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battery_health see https://docs.openhab.org/v2.2/addons/bindings/nest1/readme.html

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The binding uses the Nest battery_health value in a channel named low_battery to reuse a so called systemwide channel that is the same on a lot of bindings:

low-battery system.low-battery Switch Battery Represents a low battery warning with possible values on/off.

@hr3 provided a link to the readme of the OH1 Nest binding which does not apply to the OH2 Nest binding.

You’ll find a description of the low_battery channel in the “Smoke detector channels” section of the OH2 Nest binding documentation: https://docs.openhab.org/addons/bindings/nest/readme.html#smoke-detector-channels

So the low_battery channel state will be:

  • ON when the Nest API returns “replace”
  • OFF when the Nest API returns “ok”
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@wborn Thank you very much. That answers my Question without any space left :slight_smile:

Thanks
Andi

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