Feature to generate a report of all battery-powered devices, including device name, device type, battery type, and last battery replaced date.

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Thank you for this awesome contribution to the HA ecosystem. I hope to see it included in the main branch eventually!

I would like to know my entire inventory of battery-powered devices and group by battery type to know how many spare batteries I should have on hand in the worst case. E.g. How many 2032, 2045, AA, AAA, etc. should I have on hand as spares, based on how long the batteries last while in service versus the shelf-life of new, unused batteries?

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like to generate a report of all battery-powered devices, including device name, device type, battery type, and last battery replaced date.

Describe alternatives you've considered

The Device list will show all the "Battery Notes" devices with name, type, and battery level (see screenshot below), but I would also like to see the battery type and install date.

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[andrew-codechimp]

Thanks for the feedback, I'm not sure this will ever make it into core as code quality and time commitments wouldn't allow me to maintain the standards required for an official integration.

I like the idea of a "report" but as you're probably aware the Devices screen can't be customised so it would have to be a completely new Frontend component, a bit like Calendar and Alarmo amongst other add. This is a very different development skill from integration development (HTML, TypeScript etc) rather than Python so it would be a whole new area for me to learn.

In the meantime myself and others are using autoentities to create custom dashboard items, not as feature rich but shows what batteries we need soon. There's a good example here https://community.home-assistant.io/t/custom-component-battery-notes/613821/24

I'm closing this issue and moving it to the discussion/ideas area so it's not lost.