Unexpected behaviour of "Battery is higher than xx" flow card

[CaptainVoni]

Just take a look at the test run of this flow while "Battery" was at 84 ("ist größer als" = "is higher than"):

I assume that no words are necessary ;-)

My totally uneducated guess would be that the flow card "Battery is higher than xx" uses a battery SOC with decimal places, while the "Battery" variable is rounded to whole figures.

I would suggest to either add decimal places to the "Battery" variable or use the same rounded figure for the "Battery is higher than xx" flow card to achieve a consistent behaviour.

[biemond]

works for me on both battery vars of solar I got 41.99 back. Did you use the right batt variable.

[CaptainVoni]

You used twice the logic flow card, which accesses the same variable. I used the logic flow to access the "Battery" variable (as you did in your example), but I also used the flow card "Battery is higher than" from the app itself. They behave differently.

[biemond]

you can also use this, I don't specify any decimal , it is a number and nothing special on my side. will check it again

[CaptainVoni]

Maybe I wasn't clear in my initial report: I consider it problematic if there are two possibilities to check if the battery is above x%, but they behave differently. It's like asking the same question twice with different words and receiving a different answer.

Also I consider it problematic that the flow card "Battery is higher than x%" returns yes, but the Battery variable just shows that "x".

This all together might lead to errors.

[biemond]

just always double check what works , most comes out of the box of homey and I have influence on.

[mroeben]

I am with CaptainVoni. I've stumbled across this behaviour also and found it quite confusing. Refer to the post on the Homey forum.

When I print the two variables to the timeline I do not see any difference.

[biemond]

so I have 2 batt caps because else you won't see it on the device , only on the batt tab of the device

I can change the label of 1 so they are not exactly the same. Also can add a delay on the changed batt trigger

           if (this.validResultRecord(result['batt1-soe'])) { 
                this.addCapability('battery');
                this.addCapability('measure_battery');
                var battery = Number(Number.parseFloat(result['batt1-soe'].value).toFixed(2));
                if ( battery > 0 ) {
                    if (this.getCapabilityValue('battery') != battery) {
                        this.homey.flow.getDeviceTriggerCard('changedBattery').trigger(this, { charge: battery }, {});
                    }
                    this.setCapabilityValue('battery', battery);
                    this.setCapabilityValue('measure_battery', battery);
                }
            }