Get the battery level

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When executed, this operation delivers the following data, which can be used in the same automatic task.

• Tags

• Tag id {{device_id}}

• Tag name {{device_name}}

• Battery (0-5) {{battery_level}}

  Charge in bars, 0 to 5 — the same bars the tag fills on its own screen, which shows no percentage. Roughly two days of use per bar. While it is charging it reports 9 instead, so a rule like 'less than 3' warns you in time and skips the charging case on its own.

• Needs charging {{needs_charge}}

  Yes when BoT itself is flagging the tag as needing a charge. It only arrives if the tag is reporting, so it does not cover a tag that is switched off or out of coverage — for that, put the rule on the battery bars instead.

• Reading date (UTC) {{updated_at}}

• Reading date (epoch) {{updated_ts}}

• Minutes since the reading {{minutes_ago}}

  How old the reading is. Once the tag is out of battery it stops reporting, so this number keeps growing while the battery level stays frozen at its last value.