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krayj@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Using an Automation APP like Tasker to turn off a Home Assistant-controlled smart plug when the battery exceeds a reprogramming threshold, might be a more reliable method & works for any device.
This is the method I have been using for years and it works great. I use Home Assistant to manage the automation, the Home Assistant client app for Android to collect the device telemetry to send to Home Assistant (how I know when the batter hits 85% or drops below 70%.
I do want to point out there is one small downside to this method: your device charger (and I’m using an Anker wireless phone charging stand as my charger) only works for one device. Example, say my personal phone is charged up to 85%, so I take it off the charger, but my work-issued phone needs to be charged, but when I put my work phone on the charger nothing happens and it doesn’t charge because the charger is connected to a smart plug that’s turned off because my personal phone is charged up.
426UpgradeRequired@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Maybe you could add a sensor to the setup so you could tell which phone is on the charger- like an RFID tag on each phone case?
krayj@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I tried a similar scenario: The phone has a rfid reader built in, so I put the rfid tag on the charger and tried letting the phone read it, but quickly discovered that android can’t/wont read rfid tags unless the phone is unlocked, which defeated the elegance of the solution. I hadn’t considered buying a standalone reader and attaching the tag to the phones, that sounds a lot more complicated.