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Wossack wrote: »

you set up the zwave - usb binding using udev rules?

Yep had that done, but initially it seemed to disappear occasionally on restarting HA.
However, since then it shows up without fail.

paulbok wrote: »

Cheers for that.
I've run the Get command for /api/key/sensors but I'm getting a long unique ID for lux & temp sensors, eg, [PHP]"uniqueid": "**:**:**:**:**:01:81:90-02-0406",[/PHP], the motion sensor has a text string for the id.
Is there another step to getting a short id like you have eg 22?

Got it, it was the number in inverted quotes at the beginning of each sensor information

randombar

Selling off my HA gear if people are on here. I found it wasn't stable enough for me.

Aoetec sensor, z wave usb, pi I guess?

GaryCocs wrote: »

Selling off my HA gear if people are on here. I found it wasn't stable enough for me.

Aoetec sensor, z wave usb, pi I guess?

What wasn't stable for you?
I gave up on using a pi, couldn't get a stable power supply on one. Got a refurbished pc for €60 and installed it on that and have had no such issues.
Can't recall any HA crashes that wasn't a result of errors on the config file.

Yeah I have mine in docker on a hp proliant microserver gives much better performance

keane2097

paulbok wrote: »

Got a refurbished pc for €60 and installed it on that and have had no such issues.

Would you have any suggestions on where I might look for something like that? Or what sort of spec I would need? Presumably not much.

keane2097 wrote: »

Would you have any suggestions on where I might look for something like that? Or what sort of spec I would need? Presumably not much.

I tell a lie, it was €85 off a chap in Parkwest off adverts.ie,
More than enough for HA, I'm going to move my Plex server on to it as well.
In hindsight I would have gone for a smaller sized PC with similar specs because of space restrictions where I have it kept.

Partioned, and installed Ubuntu on it. As with High Horse, installed HA on docker, followed BurnsHA on YouTube for guidance. Set the PC to auto boot once power is on so if there is a power cut it'll restart itself.

Refurbished Dell Optiplex 745 PC Desktop Computer SFF Fast Intel Dual Core / C2D E4600 2.4Ghz, 4 GB Ram, Hard Drive 160GB, Intel Graphics, Windows 7 Pro, DVD/CDRW, 8 x USB, VGA Port

Now that I have my Smartthings hub working again, I've tried to integrate its sensors to HA, but no data coming through yet.
I'm fairly sure I have the Mosquitto broker working, was able to send a test message between two terminal windows.
Have the mqtt bridge setup in Smartthings and that looks to be communicating with the ST hub.
However after setting up the sensors on Home Assistant, they are showing no data so I think I've missed a step somewhere.
Has anyone got Smartthings setup successfully?
Is there a way to test comms between the broker and the bridge?
These are my last components to import so really annoying.

thecivvie

The high horse brigade wrote: »

Yeah I have mine in docker on a hp proliant microserver gives much better performance

Running mine on a Dell 2950 VM atm but the noise is too much lol

OffalyMedic

I bought a harmony elite a week ago and only getting around to setting it all up now. Have all devices connected to it and activities set up. Main reason I got it was so I could use Google Home (voice command) the tv but now Google is telling me harmony can't be used in my location/language. How do I get around this?

OffalyMedic wrote: »

I bought a harmony elite a week ago and only getting around to setting it all up now. Have all devices connected to it and activities set up. Main reason I got it was so I could use Google Home (voice command) the tv but now Google is telling me harmony can't be used in my location/language. How do I get around this?

Set your Google Home to USA region. I always use USA on all move as there are lots more features plus it's their test market for most new features.

Although the harmony integration is not working very well at the moment. Harmony updated and broke lots of things.

OffalyMedic

The high horse brigade wrote:

Set your Google Home to USA region. I always use USA on all move as there are lots more features plus it's their test market for most new features.

Would this not affect scenes I have set up for when I arrive near home?

OffalyMedic wrote: »

Would this not affect scenes I have set up for when I arrive near home?

Nope, the only change you'll notice is the American voice

b.gud

Black_Knight wrote: »

Yup. Got my motion sensors in HA.
Here's my HA config:
https://github.com/matthewbyrne/homeassistant/blob/master/packages/sensors.yaml#L56

But here's the guide that should help you find those URLs:
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/tutorial-adding-hue-motion-sensor-lux-temp-and-motion/5532

I was looking through your Github and I like the idea of having all my config on Github so that I will always have access to it and proper version control.

I have a question about API keys and passwords that I was hoping you could help me with. It looks like anywhere you need one you have a "!secret" followed by the name of the password. Is this "!secret" a macro that points to a specific file that you store locally which has all your API keys/passwords or do you need to manually replace these values on your machine which runs HA?

Thanks

b.gud wrote: »

I was looking through your Github and I like the idea of having all my config on Github so that I will always have access to it and proper version control.

I have a question about API keys and passwords that I was hoping you could help me with. It looks like anywhere you need one you have a "!secret" followed by the name of the password. Is this "!secret" a macro that points to a specific file that you store locally which has all your API keys/passwords or do you need to manually replace these values on your machine which runs HA?

Thanks

He has redacted the secrets.yaml file for GitHub.

# Use this file to store secrets like usernames and passwords.
# Learn more at https://home-assistant.io/docs/configuration/secrets/
http_password: mypass
api_password: myotherpass
email_address: myemail@gmail.com

The high horse brigade wrote: »

He has redacted the secrets.yaml file for GitHub.

# Use this file to store secrets like usernames and passwords.
# Learn more at https://home-assistant.io/docs/configuration/secrets/
http_password: mypass
api_password: myotherpass
email_address: myemail@gmail.com

Exactly. I add those files I don't want to share to my .gitignore file, and git doesn't track them then.
Need to do a push though, i've since moved to using lovelace.

b.gud

Thanks for the info folks

Tinder Surprise

Black_Knight wrote: »

i've since moved to using lovelace.

You likey?

matrim

My sdcard died last week so I've to do a reinstall. I've a config snapshot from March which should get me most of what I need to reconfigure but I think I'll be more rigorous on backups from now on.

Tinder Surprise wrote: »

You likey?

I likey. I do miss a few things, but its early days. I can add those things in yet.

Things I miss:
- tapping on an entity gave me all the info about it (history graphs, colour wheels for light bulbs etc). Now i've nice quick on/off 1 touch entities in lovelace, but the other night I wanted to change the colour of a bulb and I had to use the hue app. It's a learning curve though, and lovelace makes it so simple to update the UI.
- I had a pretty good non-lovelace UI setup for myself to begin with. I had groups of people/automations/rooms/lights so I could add/remove from that list and that list would be updated anywhere that group was used. Lovelace doesn't let me throw an existing group into a card and have it display all those entities.
- I've not looked into it, but i'm not sure does lovelace let me position cards myself, it tries, but I'd like to position cards myself.

Things I like:
- After a short learning curve, I can update the look of my UI in minutes, no restarts required. So simple, but such a big deal
- The custom thermostat card (https://github.com/ciotlosm/custom-lovelace/tree/master/thermostat-card). I've created my own thermostat using temperature sensors and a sonoff, so this is a nice UI to put in front of it all.
- Less clutter - I've a few glace cards with 5 entities across them, where previously this would of been 5 separate rows.
- Copy paste - So much of my lovelace config has just been copy paste from one room to another, and change a few entity names.
- Everything is configurable, so any complaints I have above regarding missing info is my own doing, and I can configure it to work for me.

matrim wrote: »

My sdcard died last week so I've to do a reinstall. I've a config snapshot from March which should get me most of what I need to reconfigure but I think I'll be more rigorous on backups from now on.

Definitely. Failing SD cards, and a corrupt Linux OS have taught me that lesson. Backup to dropbox or something even

matrim wrote: »

My sdcard died last week so I've to do a reinstall. I've a config snapshot from March which should get me most of what I need to reconfigure but I think I'll be more rigorous on backups from now on.

Must look for an auto backup add-on, would be ideal to set it to back itself up say every Saturday night.

paulbok wrote: »

Must look for an auto backup add-on, would be ideal to set it to back itself up say every Saturday night.

Look into docker, it means your software is completely disposable and OS neutral. I've my config directory mounted in the docker container from a raid 1 array. Updating is a simple as deleting the container and pulling down a fresh image

The high horse brigade wrote: »

Look into docker, it means your software is completely disposable and OS neutral. I've my config directory mounted in the docker container from a raid 1 array. Updating is a simple as deleting the container and pulling down a fresh image

and remembering your docker run command with all the -v params for your config, letsencrypt etc etc.
I just checked my terminal history... it's not there.

:rolleyes:

Black_Knight wrote: »

and remembering your docker run command with all the -v params for your config, letsencrypt etc etc.
I just checked my terminal history... it's not there. :rolleyes:

Not at all

All covered using docker-compose
https://docs.docker.com/compose/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msQdUw3jSjM

The high horse brigade wrote: »

Not at all
All covered using docker-compose
https://docs.docker.com/compose/

I really should of twigged using docker-compose much MUCH sooner

In other news, i've gotten a bit sick of owntracks being flakey and leaving my wife (or I) set to "home" when we're out and about. My own device tracking is my home/away for our heating so it's costing money at the end of the day.
Going to try out life360 and see if that's much of an improvement

Black_Knight wrote: »

In other news, i've gotten a bit sick of owntracks being flakey and leaving my wife (or I) set to "home" when we're out and about. My own device tracking is my home/away for our heating so it's costing money at the end of the day.
Going to try out life360 and see if that's much of an improvement

I'm using SNMP on my Mikrotik router and it's a great job, updates within 30 secs of our phones connecting to WiFi
https://www.home-assistant.io/components/device_tracker.snmp/