How I test

[andrew-codechimp]

Just for fun and after a bit of a frantic morning with beta's I thought I'd share how I handled testing all the battery low/battery increased code and the automations/blueprints.

With v2 it became clear pretty quickly I couldn't wait for devices to drop battery level so I used an M5Stack Matrix ESP device I had in a box and a potentiometer on a grove connector, with a little code in ESPHome I translate the voltage into a percentage and kick out a device_class battery value for it.

Using this I can quickly test automations are working and also try weird scenarios like a binary battery, which I ignore today but may get smarter with later.

If anyone is interested in the espHome code it's here