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---
layout: page
title: "Track your battery level"
description: "Basic example how to track the battery level of your mobile devices."
date: 2016-01-29 09:00
sidebar: true
comments: false
sharing: true
footer: true
ha_category: Automation Examples
---
### {% linkable_title iOS Devices %}
If you have a device running iOS (iPhone, iPad, etc), The [iCloud](/components/device_tracker.icloud/) is gathering various details about your device including the battery level. To display it in the Frontend use a [template sensor](/components/sensor.template/).
```yaml
sensor:
- platform: template
sensors:
battery_iphone:
unit_of_measurement: '%'
value_template: >-
{% raw %}{%- if states.device_tracker.iphone.attributes.battery %}
{{ states.device_tracker.iphone.attributes.battery }}
{% else %}
{{ states.sensor.battery_iphone.state }}
{%- endif %}{% endraw %}
```
The `else` part is used to have the sensor keep it's last state if the newest [iCloud](/components/device_tracker.icloud/) update doesn't have any battery state in it (which happens sometimes). Otherwise the sensor will be blank.
### {% linkable_title Android and iOS Devices %}
While running the [Owntracks](/components/device_tracker.owntracks/) device tracker you can retrieve the battery level with a MQTT sensor.
```yaml
sensor:
- platform: mqtt
state_topic: "owntracks/tablet/tablet"
name: "Battery Tablet"
unit_of_measurement: "%"
value_template: {% raw %}'{{ value_json.batt }}'{% endraw %}
```