# How is a battery check flow made?
**URL:** https://community.homey.app/t/how-is-a-battery-check-flow-made/118131
**Category:** Questions & Help
**Tags:** flow, homey-pro, advancedflow
**Created:** [October 14, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-is-a-battery-check-flow-made/118131 "2024-10-14T15:37:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Henrik\_Bendtsen](https://community.homey.app/u/Henrik_Bendtsen)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-is-a-battery-check-flow-made/118131/1 "2024-10-14T15:37:56Z")
Hello,
First of all thanks for a great forum.
However, I cannot immediately find an answer to my question.
I have searched and found a solution for a battery check (see picture).
It works!
I receive a notification when a battery is below 20 percent.
But unfortunately I receive very, very many notifications during the day.
Until the battery in the device has been replaced.
What have you others done?
A solution could be that it only checks once a day?
But how do I do it?
So I only counter one message on a daily basis at least.
Or what have you others done?
Kind regards
Henrik Bendtsen
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### Author:  [@SunBeech](https://community.homey.app/u/SunBeech)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2024, 4:33pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-is-a-battery-check-flow-made/118131/2 "2024-10-14T16:33:40Z")
I am using a flow per device to check the battery level of that device only. In addition, I have a yes/no variable per device that indicates whether a notification has been sent that day. Every night this variable is reset. By using this combination I limit the notifications to one per device per day.
Further I use one generic variable that defines the threshold (battery percentage) that is used for this check for all devices.
This is an example for a Netatmo weather module:
- The trigger is a change in battery level;
- Next it checks whether the current battery level (‘Accuniveau’) is at or below the threshold (‘Batterijniveau Melding’, e.g. 20%);
- If so, it checks whether a notification has already been sent today for the low battery level (based on the variable ‘Netatmo KT Batterij Gemeld’);
- The flow stops if a notification has already been sent today. Otherwise it sets this variable to Yes and creates a notification message (‘Melding Batterij’), which includes the current battery level ‘(Accuniveau’);
- Finally it sends a push notification, creates a timeline notification and makes a log entry with the same message (‘Melding Batterij’).
At midnight the variable that keeps track of whether a notification has been sent (‘Netatmo KT Batterij Gemeld’) is reset (set to No) and a log entry is made of this action:
The downside is ofcourse that you need to create a seperate flow per device. The upside is that you have maximum flexibility in how to receive such notifications.
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### Author:  [@Henrik\_Bendtsen](https://community.homey.app/u/Henrik_Bendtsen)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2024, 7:53pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-is-a-battery-check-flow-made/118131/3 "2024-10-14T19:53:24Z")
Thanks for sharing your ideas and flows, it actually gave me great ideas. I can see the possibilities behind your flows. However, it requires maintenance. Thanks 🙂
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### Author:  [@Andy\_Henderson](https://community.homey.app/u/Andy_Henderson)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2024, 7:58am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-is-a-battery-check-flow-made/118131/4 "2024-10-15T07:58:19Z")
For an alternative approach check out the Chronograph app. When you raise an alert you can set a timer for, say, 24 hours and suppress notifications until it expires.
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### Author:  [@Henrik\_Bendtsen](https://community.homey.app/u/Henrik_Bendtsen)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2024, 2:13pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-is-a-battery-check-flow-made/118131/5 "2024-10-15T14:13:43Z")
Hi Andy,
That was actually a good idea too. Thanks