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   Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 13:27:22 JST Miakoda

   Fascinating.
   One of my Zigbee devices, a cheap 4 button remote, stopped working. It's clearly the battery. I got a new battery for it, it works again. Dead battery is confirmed the issue it had.
   But I don't remember getting notified. So I looked in HA at it's battery entity, looked at it's history... 100% from the day I put it in till the remote went unavailable.
   It just spits out "100%" no matter what. Weird.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 13:27:25 JST Miakoda

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     Why bother exposing a battery entity then? At the very low price I paid for the remote, I wouldn't have batted an eye at it not sensing it's battery level. I don't think anyone knowledgable enough to use it would.
     It seems weird to go through the trouble to make it send a battery level entity that sends a fake value. I have other super cheapies that don't expose a battery level.