What Dictates A Battery Powered Device/Child?

[Tillsy]

When I look at any battery powered device on HomeSeer mobile on the dashboard, the battery icon has the percentage written in text alongside it.

A plugin I use (shill's Tesla plugin) has a battery child device, however HomeSeer mobile does not show the percentage alongside it.

Now, obviously that child is configured like any other battery child - but only in the sense that it has the relevant graphics/value range/etc that make it look like a battery device. Nothing I do, changing the device type or the exact name or anything, makes HomeSeer recognise that it as an actual battery.

Which therefore begs the question - what is it that makes HomeSeer recognise it as being an actual "battery" versus simply looking like one? I have compared the root object to a battery powered device too and can't find anything, but I am guessing that behind the scenes there must be some kind of flag that designates something as officially being "battery" powered?

Cheers 🍻

[Tillsy]

Actually here's a screenshot to demonstrate the visual difference between something HomeSeer is recognising has a "real" battery level, versus something that has a battery device but is merely seen as something that happens to have battery graphics and a percentage value but not recognised as an actual battery...

The percentage shown in the text is the workaround I've done, and would rather be showing other information there...

[Tillsy]

So, it turns out HomeSeer does somehow officially identify a battery object - but it's not via the device type string or anything in the GUI, there is something behind the scenes dictating it. I tried messing about with making copies of the sqlite databases and hunting through the tables but couldn't work it out.

So I did a hack job... one hell of a hack job... but it worked