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    #92
    randombar
    Registered Users Posts: 3,360 ✭✭✭randombar


    Off topic from above but tp links plug in well, only problem is you have to put the ip's into the config. Would prefer the mac address.


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    #93
    paulbok
    Registered Users Posts: 4,898 ✭✭✭paulbok


    Did anyone using a pi 3 have problems getting a stable power supply with hassio?
    When I switched from an older HA install on a pi 3 to a clean hassio install, the pi became unreliable. Power led blinked green and red, and couldn't get a stable connection to hassio from another laptop, and if I restarted hassio, the pi crashed completely.
    I looked this up and everything pointed to the power lead not supplying enough power ( needs to be stable between 4.75v to 5.25v.
    I was using the raspberry pi power lead, and swapped with several chargers I had at home but same happened. Got a new official pi lead and same happened.
    Got a tester for the leads and both show 5.28v.
    So, believing the pi was faulty, I ordered another but the same is happening.
    Have just checked the boards with a multi meter, and each show just the minimum of 4.75v with no accessories or sd card installed (using p7 test point). Dropped to 4.71v and 4.72v with an SD card installed.
    So chargers seem to be providing enough juice but losing half a volt just being plugged in.

    Will redo the older install, install Linux and then HA on top of that and see if that still works.
    Anyone with similar issues?
    What leads/chargers are you using?


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    #94
    matrim
    Registered Users Posts: 7,515 ✭✭✭matrim


    paulbok wrote: »
    Did anyone using a pi 3 have problems getting a stable power supply with hassio?
    When I switched from an older HA install on a pi 3 to a clean hassio install, the pi became unreliable. Power led blinked green and red, and couldn't get a stable connection to hassio from another laptop, and if I restarted hassio, the pi crashed completely.
    I looked this up and everything pointed to the power lead not supplying enough power ( needs to be stable between 4.75v to 5.25v.
    I was using the raspberry pi power lead, and swapped with several chargers I had at home but same happened. Got a new official pi lead and same happened.
    Got a tester for the leads and both show 5.28v.
    So, believing the pi was faulty, I ordered another but the same is happening.
    Have just checked the boards with a multi meter, and each show just the minimum of 4.75v with no accessories or sd card installed (using p7 test point). Dropped to 4.71v and 4.72v with an SD card installed.
    So chargers seem to be providing enough juice but losing half a volt just being plugged in.

    Will redo the older install, install Linux and then HA on top of that and see if that still works.
    Anyone with similar issues?
    What leads/chargers are you using?

    I had a problem that when I used both bluetooth and WiFi the board would drop off the network after about a day and needed a reboot to reconnect. I disabled bluetooth as a workaround


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    #95
    paulbok
    Registered Users Posts: 4,898 ✭✭✭paulbok


    Will try that, is that a config file edit or is there another way?


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    #96
    matrim
    Registered Users Posts: 7,515 ✭✭✭matrim


    paulbok wrote: »
    Will try that, is that a config file edit or is there another way?

    In hassio you have to enable an addon to turn on bluetooth. Make sure that is disabled You should be able to find it from Hass.io > Addons > Bluetooth BCM43xx. Then make sure it is not installed or disabled


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    #97
    randombar
    Registered Users Posts: 3,360 ✭✭✭randombar


    So far so good with the Aoetec Sensor. My advice would be to use it plugged in as you can only get 60 min reports from battery. Also restart the hassio a few times to get all the config installed and looking good.


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    #98
    randombar
    Registered Users Posts: 3,360 ✭✭✭randombar


    Anyone have a "turn on light if detect presence" sample script, would like to have the turn off part in it as well with a timeout etc.

    Could come up with it but I want to go out and play in the snow :D


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    #99
    matrim
    Registered Users Posts: 7,515 ✭✭✭matrim


    It's not presence but here's a YAML automation that turns on 2 lights, waits 15 minutes and then turns them off.

    The triggers for it are if a door opens. And it will only fire if the sun has set and the light isn't already on.
    - action:
  - data:
      entity_id: light.back_downstairs_hallway
    service: light.turn_on
  - data:
      entity_id: light.hallway
    service: light.turn_on
  - delay: 00:15:00
  - data:
      entity_id: light.hallway
    service: light.turn_off
  - data:
      entity_id: light.back_downstairs_hallway
    service: light.turn_off
  alias: back door open
  condition:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: sun.sun
    state: below_horizon
  - condition: state
    entity_id: light.back_downstairs_hallway
    state: 'off'
  id: '1515966627063'
  trigger:
  - entity_id: binary_sensor.door_window_sensor_158d0001bf8645
    from: 'off'
    platform: state
    to: 'on'


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    #100
    Black_Knight
    Moderators Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Black_Knight


    GaryCocs wrote: »
    Anyone have a "turn on light if detect presence" sample script, would like to have the turn off part in it as well with a timeout etc.

    Could come up with it but I want to go out and play in the snow :D

    Not sure if this is the best way to go, but I had to write 2 automations. 1 to active when I get home, if its passed sunset. The other to active if sunset occurs and im at home.
    - alias: Turn on lights when home if after sunset
    trigger:
      platform: state
      entity_id: group.all_devices
      to: 'home'
    condition:
      condition: state
      entity_id: sun.sun
      state: 'below_horizon'
    action:
      service: light.turn_on
      entity_id: light.downstairs_hall_lamp

  - alias: Turn on lights when sunset if someones home
    trigger:
      platform: state
      entity_id: sun.sun
      from: 'above_horizon'
      to: 'below_horizon'
    condition:
      - condition: state
        entity_id: group.all_devices
        state: 'home'
    action:
      service: light.turn_on
      entity_id: light.downstairs_hall_lamp

  - alias: Turn off lights when everyone leaves
    trigger:
      platform: state
      entity_id: group.all_devices
      to: 'not_home'
    action:
      - service: light.turn_off
        entity_id: group.all_lights
      - service: switch.turn_off
        entity_id: switch.attic_light


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    #101
    Black_Knight
    Moderators Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Black_Knight


    I now have a philips hue sensor outside (sheltered) which gets my the lux units and I use this to define whether it's bright out or not (binary sensor). I use this now rather than the sun. I found that on cloudy days i'd want the lights on earlier than the sun was down.

    FYI. I used the 'from'/'to' conditions in the trigger so the automation only fires once per day. Otherwise you'd end up in a scenario where you turn off the lights (bedtime or whatever) and the automation would turn them back on for you.


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    #102
    randombar
    Registered Users Posts: 3,360 ✭✭✭randombar


    Moving my set up to my home server, bit of a pain, hopefully worth it


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    #103
    Black_Knight
    Moderators Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Black_Knight


    GaryCocs wrote: »
    Moving my set up to my home server, bit of a pain, hopefully worth it

    Totally worth it. I got myself an Intel Nuc, and migrated to that from a Raspberry Pi 2. World of difference. Start up takes seconds rather than minutes. I've InfluxDB running on it too, with some nice Grafana visuals on my heating usage etc.

    444698.JPG

    Around the 17th I started insulating our attic space. Outside temperatures went up too but it looks like with us at the house over these last few days in the sub-zero temps it's been taking less time to heat the house. Though i'm bias, I want the insulation work to have been worth it :)

    EDIT: Also only stated tracking weather around the 13th Feb. Captain hindsight here


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    #104
    mcgovern
    Registered Users Posts: 4,267 ✭✭✭mcgovern


    GaryCocs wrote: »
    Anyone have a "turn on light if detect presence" sample script, would like to have the turn off part in it as well with a timeout etc.

    Could come up with it but I want to go out and play in the snow :D

    Not as good as matrim's but here is what I've working for the moment

    [PHP]- alias: Turn on bathroom light when there is movement
    trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.motion_sensor_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    from: 'off'
    to: 'on'
    action:
    service: light.turn_on
    entity_id: light.yeelight_rgb_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    - alias: Turn off bathroom light 5 minutes after last movement
    trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.motion_sensor_xxxxxxxxxxx
    to: 'off'
    for:
    minutes: 5
    action:
    service: light.turn_off
    entity_id: light.yeelight_rgb_xxxxxxxxxxxx[/PHP]


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    #105
    randombar
    Registered Users Posts: 3,360 ✭✭✭randombar


    Black_Knight wrote: »
    Not sure if this is the best way to go, but I had to write 2 automations. 1 to active when I get home, if its passed sunset. The other to active if sunset occurs and im at home.
    - alias: Turn on lights when home if after sunset
    trigger:
      platform: state
      entity_id: group.all_devices
      to: 'home'
    condition:
      condition: state
      entity_id: sun.sun
      state: 'below_horizon'
    action:
      service: light.turn_on
      entity_id: light.downstairs_hall_lamp

  - alias: Turn on lights when sunset if someones home
    trigger:
      platform: state
      entity_id: sun.sun
      from: 'above_horizon'
      to: 'below_horizon'
    condition:
      - condition: state
        entity_id: group.all_devices
        state: 'home'
    action:
      service: light.turn_on
      entity_id: light.downstairs_hall_lamp

  - alias: Turn off lights when everyone leaves
    trigger:
      platform: state
      entity_id: group.all_devices
      to: 'not_home'
    action:
      - service: light.turn_off
        entity_id: group.all_lights
      - service: switch.turn_off
        entity_id: switch.attic_light

    It looks like it's all done through multiple automations all right rather than 1 with conditionals.


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    #106
    randombar
    Registered Users Posts: 3,360 ✭✭✭randombar


    Black_Knight wrote: »
    Totally worth it. I got myself an Intel Nuc, and migrated to that from a Raspberry Pi 2. World of difference. Start up takes seconds rather than minutes. I've InfluxDB running on it too, with some nice Grafana visuals on my heating usage etc.

    444698.JPG

    Around the 17th I started insulating our attic space. Outside temperatures went up too but it looks like with us at the house over these last few days in the sub-zero temps it's been taking less time to heat the house. Though i'm bias, I want the insulation work to have been worth it :)

    EDIT: Also only stated tracking weather around the 13th Feb. Captain hindsight here

    Having issues with it auto start up myself, sorted permissions but I think it starts up now before the network is set or something because if I auto startup the hue and chrome casts dont come in. Much faster all right, have it on my microserver/plex box.

    Googling influxDB as we speak.


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    #107
    randombar
    Registered Users Posts: 3,360 ✭✭✭randombar


    Working fine for moisture detection (switching on extractor fan) but the motion detection sensor is a bit slow. Go into the room and it takes maybe 30 secs for light to come on. I have set the "binary sensor report" and the group 1 interval to 15 (via the HA configurator). After that I'm not really sure what to do?


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    #108
    Black_Knight
    Moderators Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Black_Knight


    GaryCocs wrote: »
    Googling influxDB as we speak.

    InfluxDB didn't take much effort if I remember correctly. Just install it, run it and setup the component for HA.
    After that I just installed Grafana and changed it's datasource to be influxDB. Some trial and error and I got the graphs I wanted on it.
    I tried using chronograf for influxDB but really didn't like it.


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    #109
    cherryghost
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,132 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    I am doing something similar for a while, and including DB reliability etc. I have a brief installation tutorial on the thread


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    #110
    Black_Knight
    Moderators Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Black_Knight


    cherryghost wrote: »
    I am doing something similar for a while, and including DB reliability etc. I have a brief installation tutorial on the thread

    DB = Dublin Bus... not Database :pac:


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    #111
    randombar
    Registered Users Posts: 3,360 ✭✭✭randombar


    Black_Knight wrote: »
    InfluxDB didn't take much effort if I remember correctly. Just install it, run it and setup the component for HA.
    After that I just installed Grafana and changed it's datasource to be influxDB. Some trial and error and I got the graphs I wanted on it.
    I tried using chronograf for influxDB but really didn't like it.

    any issues on restart of nuc?


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    #112
    Black_Knight
    Moderators Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Black_Knight


    GaryCocs wrote: »
    any issues on restart of nuc?

    Only thing I can think of is the hass service. I think I don't start it with the right permissions or something. Every time the nuc restarts (which is rare) I have to scratch my head as to why it's not starting up correctly, and every time I say to myself i'll fix that now.... and I don't.

    444812.png


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    #113
    randombar
    Registered Users Posts: 3,360 ✭✭✭randombar


    Black_Knight wrote: »
    Only thing I can think of is the hass service. I think I don't start it with the right permissions or something. Every time the nuc restarts (which is rare) I have to scratch my head as to why it's not starting up correctly, and every time I say to myself i'll fix that now.... and I don't.

    444812.png

    Ya I sorted the permissions by adding the user to the USB group (Something like that anyway).

    Sensor still a bit slow unfortunately.


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    #114
    randombar
    Registered Users Posts: 3,360 ✭✭✭randombar


    Just a word of warning for people, upgraded home assistant the other day on ubuntu 16.04 and it fell over. Failed to start up because of python dependancies. Shur I needed to upgrade to 17.10 anyways :D


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    #115
    paulbok
    Registered Users Posts: 4,898 ✭✭✭paulbok


    New raspberry pi 3+ released yesterday for anyone thinking of getting one. Bump up in processing power and wifi and support for Poe are the main upgrades. Don't know when available this side of the pond but still selling at $35 in the states


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    #116
    THE ALM
    Registered Users Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭THE ALM


    paulbok wrote: »
    New raspberry pi 3+ released yesterday for anyone thinking of getting one. Bump up in processing power and wifi and support for Poe are the main upgrades. Don't know when available this side of the pond but still selling at $35 in the states

    Available from the main UK suppliers as well £32


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    #117
    randombar
    Registered Users Posts: 3,360 ✭✭✭randombar


    Anyone have any experience with temp sensors? Thinking of putting a temp sensor on my hot tank to monitor temp.

    It's controlled by an analog already but think this might be a bit better.

    Organising the cards etc. myself now.

    Only realised there were hidden gems like server status.

    Any other ones for weather and the likes?

    Actually using wunderground, seems decent enough.

    Wondering how people are getting on with the iPhone app and location.

    From what I can see I am still away (wrong) and the wife never leaves the house (definitely wrong)


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    #118
    rkdub
    Registered Users Posts: 52 ✭✭rkdub


    GaryCocs wrote: »
    Anyone have any experience with temp sensors? Thinking of putting a temp sensor on my hot tank to monitor temp.

    It's controlled by an analog already but think this might be a bit better.

    Organising the cards etc. myself now.

    Only realised there were hidden gems like server status.

    Any other ones for weather and the likes?

    Not yet, but on the plans... I was thinking of setting up a mysensor gateway to do just that - 2+sensors and you might be able to guide how much hot water there is..(eg enough for one shower..)


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    #119
    Black_Knight
    Moderators Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Black_Knight


    GaryCocs wrote: »
    Any other ones for weather and the likes?

    Using platform: yr
    https://github.com/matthewbyrne/homeassistant/blob/master/packages/sensors.yaml

    https://github.com/matthewbyrne/homeassistant/blob/master/packages/weather.yaml

    I've some reporting on how long my heating as been on each day. Nice to get an idea of usage week on week.


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    #120
    randombar
    Registered Users Posts: 3,360 ✭✭✭randombar


    Unfortunately my blink cameras are not playing brilliantly with home Assistant, for some reason the "unread" notifications count is staying at 0.

    Looking to use IFTTT instead.

    Pushing the following back to HA:
    {
    "state": "1",
    "attributes": {
    "friendly_name": "Front Door Motion Detected",
    "icon": "mdi:security"
    }
    }

    What I need to do now is try and automatically set back to zero if motion isn't detected for five minutes.

    Any tips?

    I see things about template sensors but not sure where to go really.


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    #121
    Chardee MacDennis
    Registered Users Posts: 9,225 ✭✭✭Chardee MacDennis


    thinking im going to nuke my HA install tonight and dockerize the whole thing as per

    https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/895iw6/my_home_assistant_setup_rpi_3b_docker_compose/

    Any reason I shouldnt go the docker route?


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