iOS REST Battery

A REST API for reporting the battery percentage of jailbroken iOS devices

Installation

Requirements

• Jailbroken iOS device (only 32-bit devices are supported at the moment)
• Terminal/SSH access to your iOS device
• (Recommended) A tweak that keeps Wi-Fi on even when the device is locked (like iNoSleep)
• Git CLI (apt-get install git) on your iOS device
• Python 2.5.1 (apt-get install python) on your iOS device
• Awk (apt-get install gawk) on your iOS device
• Screen (apt-get install screen) on your iOS device

Setup

1. Meet the requirements
2. Follow the instructions here to generate an SSH key on your iOS device to be able to access GitHub
3. Run cat /path/to/<your key>.pub and copy its contents to this GitHub page
4. Clone this repository to your iOS device (git clone git@github.com:ShonP40/iOS-REST-Battery.git)
5. Clone the SimpleJSON repository to your iOS device (git clone git@github.com:simplejson/simplejson.git)
6. cd into the simplejson directory
7. Install the simplejson package using python setup.py install
8. cd into the iOS-REST-Battery directory
9. Install batterydata-arm32.deb using dpkg -i batterydata-arm32.deb
10. Start the script by running python script.py to test it out
11. Press Ctrl + C to stop the script

Running (You will need to do this every time you reboot your device)

1. cd into the iOS-REST-Battery directory
2. Create a new screen session by running screen -S battery
3. Start the script by running python script.py
4. Detach from the screen session by pressing Ctrl + A + D

Updating

1. Reattach to the screen session by running screen -r battery
2. Press Ctrl + C to stop the script
3. Run git pull
4. Start the script again by running python script.py
5. Detach from the screen session by pressing Ctrl + A + D

Usage

If you are using this sctipt to display the battery status of your iOS device on Home Assistant, you can use the following configuration as an example:

sensor:
  - platform: rest
    name: iPad battery status
    unique_id: ipad_battery_status
    resource: http://<iPad IP>:8000/status
    method: GET
    value_template: "{{ value_json.Battery }}"
    unit_of_measurement: "%"
    device_class: battery
    json_attributes:
      - Battery
      - Battery status