Rule help identifying specific device from a group

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I have a RULE that triggers on the status of the BATTERY attribute of a group of all my battery devices.

Currently, I get a note that one of my devices has a low battery, but not which specific device… so i have to manually comb through those device to find out which one has the low battery.

Is there a way to sharpen the logic in this rule to identify which specific device has a low battery, and then send a notification with that specific information?

EDIT: Also, I just noticed in the SmartThings App, on my Favorites page, there is a notification of one of my devices that has a low battery. (How convenient!) Where is the information for that configured? Do I need to include all battery devices in there somewhere, or does the App just automagically know? And does that have the ability to send out SMS (or other) notifications?

Thanks!

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You can use Context Variables to identify which device triggered the rule. When editing your notification, you can tap +VARIABLE on the right of the text field to insert a variable; select the Context Variable tab and then select:

Event → Device → Device Name

The resulting variable that gets inserted will be $context.event.deviceName

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