HOW TO create your own Low Battery Warning Sensor In Home Assistant - TUTORIAL
Published at : 23 Dec 2025
In this video, I will show you how you can create your own LOW BATTERY WARNING SENSOR. I think it doesn’t really make sense to show all the batteries in your setup and what the charge value is of each battery. Basically, I am only interested in those batteries that need to be replaced. So, in this tutorial, I will show you how to show a list of batteries on your dashboard that need to be replaced in your house using a custom sensor template.
Did you notice the awesome dashboard that I was using? This is Dwains Dashboard and you can set that up yourself too using this video: https://youtu.be/6hemFbrJuk8
00:00 Introduction 01:17 Preview of the end result of this tutorial 02:33 Creating the Battery Threshold Helper 03:47 Check the state and attributes of a battery entity 04:45 Create the custom template for the battery list 12:41 Add the battery list to a dashboard 17:20 One more thing: Unique ID explained