Home Assistant

paulbok · 07-11-2018 4:58pm

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 · 07-11-2018 6:10pm

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 · 08-11-2018 1:34pm

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?

paulbok · 08-11-2018 2:22pm

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.

The high horse brigade · 08-11-2018 2:50pm

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

keane2097 · 08-11-2018 2:56pm

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.

paulbok · 08-11-2018 3:18pm

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

paulbok · 19-11-2018 10:53pm

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 · 19-11-2018 11:03pm

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 · 22-11-2018 8:03pm

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?

The high horse brigade · 22-11-2018 8:07pm

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 · 22-11-2018 8:46pm

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?

The high horse brigade · 22-11-2018 9:02pm

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 · 26-11-2018 6:02pm

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

The high horse brigade · 26-11-2018 6:23pm

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

Black_Knight · 26-11-2018 9:06pm

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 · 27-11-2018 9:52am

Thanks for the info folks

Tinder Surprise · 27-11-2018 2:32pm

Black_Knight wrote: »

i've since moved to using lovelace.

You likey?

matrim · 27-11-2018 4:08pm

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.

Black_Knight · 27-11-2018 5:34pm

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.

Black_Knight · 27-11-2018 5:38pm

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

paulbok · 27-11-2018 6:26pm

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.

The high horse brigade · 27-11-2018 6:45pm

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

Black_Knight · 27-11-2018 11:51pm

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:

The high horse brigade · 27-11-2018 11:55pm

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/

Black_Knight · 28-11-2018 12:01am

The high horse brigade wrote: »

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

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

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

Black_Knight · 28-11-2018 12:02am

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

The high horse brigade · 28-11-2018 12:08am

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/

Black_Knight · 28-11-2018 11:59am

The high horse brigade wrote: »

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/

I use wifi detection too, but there's the odd blackspot in my house (come on ubiquiti, reduce that price) so it would end up triggering automations on/off too quickly (or if someone decides to turn on/off their wifi). I've previously compensated for this by adding waits to my automation (wait 10 minutes after everyone is away before turning off lights/heating etc). I'll likely keep that though, for times we have guests staying over and both my wife and I are out.

matrim · 28-11-2018 12:00pm

Black_Knight wrote: »

I use wifi detection too, but there's the odd blackspot in my house (come on ubiquiti, reduce that price) so it would end up triggering automations on/off too quickly (or if someone decides to turn on/off their wifi). I've previously compensated for this by adding waits to my automation (wait 10 minutes after everyone is away before turning off lights/heating etc). I'll likely keep that though, for times we have guests staying over and both my wife and I are out.

Could you try a mix of WiFi and Bluetooth. That works for me.

Black_Knight · 28-11-2018 12:02pm

Pretty happy with life360 so far. It's been running on my phone for the last week or so and i've not noticed a difference in battery.

THE ALM · 28-11-2018 12:14pm

Black_Knight wrote: »

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.
.

If you use the button card this will give you those functions, it is what I use for Hue and Hive bulbs.button_card.JPG

Still playing around with Lovelace so a bit to go yet but some nice cards to play around with.

Black_Knight · 28-11-2018 2:25pm

THE ALM wrote: »

If you use the button card this will give you those functions, it is what I use for Hue and Hive bulbs.button_card.JPG

Still playing around with Lovelace so a bit to go yet but some nice cards to play around with.

Ah yeah. Easy out of the box with lovelace too. I have my tap_action set to "toggle", which I like, but then sometimes I also like to have full control. I'm so hard to please.

garion · 28-11-2018 4:07pm

THE ALM wrote: »

If you use the button card this will give you those functions, it is what I use for Hue and Hive bulbs.button_card.JPG

Still playing around with Lovelace so a bit to go yet but some nice cards to play around with.

I'm really new to HA & lovelace. I'm always on the look out for examples though so any chance you'd share your lovelace config? I'm very much in the copy, paste & tweak phase at the moment!

Tinder Surprise · 28-11-2018 4:14pm

In the market for a NAS an I see the likes of the QNAP range you can install Home Assistant on them via a container.

anyone here using similar?

QNAP also have a native IOT manager application available

Black_Knight · 28-11-2018 5:40pm

garion wrote: »

I'm really new to HA & lovelace. I'm always on the look out for examples though so any chance you'd share your lovelace config? I'm very much in the copy, paste & tweak phase at the moment!

If im good, i'll push my latest to my git repo this evening/night. If im bad, i'll forget. :rolleyes:

THE ALM · 28-11-2018 5:57pm

garion wrote: »

I'm really new to HA & lovelace. I'm always on the look out for examples though so any chance you'd share your lovelace config? I'm very much in the copy, paste & tweak phase at the moment!

I have a simple setup with the button card.

If you haven't started with lovelace and are running hass.io then a good way to start is by using the lovelace migration plugin. The will create a ui-lovelace.yaml file for you which you can then play around with.

You want to download the button-card from the link I posted and put it in the www folder of you home assistant, then in the ui-lovelace.yaml file you will want to reference this. So mine has a few different resources and looks like this:

resources:
- url: /local/mini-media-player-bundle.js?v=0.9.3
type: module
- url: /local/custom-lovelace/swipe-card/swipe-card.js?v=1.0
type: js
- url: /local/custom-lovelace/thermostat-card/thermostat-card.js?v=1
type: module
- url: /local/button-card.js
type: module

I use the button-card at the minute mainly for lighting so e.g.

title: Hue
cards:
- id:
type: custom:button-card
entity: light.floor_light
icon: mdi:lightbulb-on-outline
color: auto
name: Floor Light
action: more_info
- id:
type: custom:button-card
entity: light.table_light
icon: mdi:lightbulb-on-outline
color: auto
name: Table Light

you will want to change the entity to match yours. My ui-lovelace.yaml file is a bit all over the place at the minute as I play around with a few things so will need a bit of a clean up before I could make it public :eek:

keane2097 · 04-12-2018 10:16am

I got around to installing Ubuntu on the spare laptop over the weekend only to find that I can't get Docker to install because it's got a 32 bit processor. Looking at other options I see the below posted in BA, which might be of interest to some.

tryfix wrote: »

4-in-1 Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ + Acrylic Case + Cooling Fan + Heatsink Kit

Special Price €37.77

https://www.zapals.com/4-in-1-raspberry-pi-3-model-b-acrylic-case-cooling-fan-heatsink-kit.html

A nice little piece of kit from China with the latest 3 b+ model and there's a 3.5" touch screen add on below for €9.43.

3.5-inch LCD Touch Screen with Stylus Pen for Raspberry Pi 3 Model B

https://www.zapals.com/raspberry-pi-3-model-b-3-5-inch-lcd-touch-screen-with-stylus-pen-hd-1920x1080.html

matrim · 04-12-2018 10:28am

Damnit. I just rebuild my install with a new SD card and the new one is not booting now. It must be the board that is causing issues.

Metric Tensor · 21-01-2019 5:23pm

Hi All,

I recently switched my HA setup from a Raspberry Pi to a NUC with docker. So far I'm loving the experience but I spent all of yesterday trying to add a new zwave device and got nowhere. Now it could be the device (Fibaro Sensor - of which I have two already) but I don't think it is.

I have made sure to pass the Z Wave USB stick to docker and point to the correct place in the config file and it successfully communicates with and controls all my existing devices so it must be substantially working but it just will not talk to the new device. I only have one new one here and I'm not going to delete one of the working ones to try to re-add it!

If anyone has had a similar experience let me know.

I want to troubleshoot the issue a few different ways - the way I always did this with the RPi was to have a "working" SD card with the current set up on it and a testing card to play around with. I assume I can do something similar by having two different containers in docker - i.e. a stable container and a working container. My entire docker knowledge is gleaned from the net in the past few weeks so it is limited! Could anyone lay out the steps they might take in a similar circumstance?

Thanks lads, love this thread. I realise reddit is there and the HA forums but I like the vibe here!!

Black_Knight · 22-01-2019 10:22am

Metric Tensor wrote: »

Hi All,

I recently switched my HA setup from a Raspberry Pi to a NUC with docker. So far I'm loving the experience but I spent all of yesterday trying to add a new zwave device and got nowhere. Now it could be the device (Fibaro Sensor - of which I have two already) but I don't think it is.

I have made sure to pass the Z Wave USB stick to docker and point to the correct place in the config file and it successfully communicates with and controls all my existing devices so it must be substantially working but it just will not talk to the new device. I only have one new one here and I'm not going to delete one of the working ones to try to re-add it!

If anyone has had a similar experience let me know.

I want to troubleshoot the issue a few different ways - the way I always did this with the RPi was to have a "working" SD card with the current set up on it and a testing card to play around with. I assume I can do something similar by having two different containers in docker - i.e. a stable container and a working container. My entire docker knowledge is gleaned from the net in the past few weeks so it is limited! Could anyone lay out the steps they might take in a similar circumstance?

Thanks lads, love this thread. I realise reddit is there and the HA forums but I like the vibe here!!

I've no clue of Zwave, but there's a home assistant discord channel specifically for zwave:
https://discordapp.com/channels/330944238910963714/332357267364249621
They're super helpful there any time i've asked anything.

cherryghost · 30-01-2019 4:28pm

The latest HA update focuses mainly on UI improvement, UI can be edited on the fly which is great. Downside is all my scripts stopped working because they've decided to change slightly how it works

Black_Knight · 30-01-2019 4:54pm

cherryghost wrote: »

The latest HA update focuses mainly on UI improvement, UI can be edited on the fly which is great. Downside is all my scripts stopped working because they've decided to change slightly how it works

Automatons using minutes hours seconds all broke. And some be mqtt JSON extraction I was doing started rightly complaining at me, so it's not all negative.

Their breaking changes page in the blog is quite handy.

cherryghost · 30-01-2019 5:00pm

Black_Knight wrote: »

Automatons using minutes hours seconds all broke. And some be mqtt JSON extraction I was doing started rightly complaining at me, so it's not all negative.

Their breaking changes page in the blog is quite handy.

Yeah I read it after updating. Most of my stuff is back up running again but gotta knock heads on some of the other stuff mainly because I forgot how I wrote it in the first place

Newtown90 · 02-02-2019 3:29pm

Hi all,

I'm having trouble integrating HA and my xiaomi philips zhirui bulbs..

I'm stuck on extracting the specific token for the bulbs...

I've seen a few techniques on Reddit but my head is melted from a few.

Anyone got any tips?

thecivvie · 21-02-2019 2:17pm

For the Teckin Sp23 Power Monitoring sockets that regularly on offer on Amazon UK, use this Wiki entry to use them with Tasmota and HA

https://github.com/arendst/Sonoff-Tasmota/wiki/Teckin-SP23

I flashed two and no issues

thecivvie · 21-02-2019 2:27pm

With Sensor setup it is possible to get the power usage. I do need to calibrate mine

Nedved85 · 22-02-2019 11:05am

Jumping on this train now - just picked up a Rasperry Pi 3 B+ and installed Home Assistant last night.

Anyone setup broadlink with this?

b.gud · 22-02-2019 11:54am

Nedved85 wrote: »

Jumping on this train now - just picked up a Rasperry Pi 3 B+ and installed Home Assistant last night.

Anyone setup broadlink with this?

Haven't gotten round to it yet but planning on using the below video to setup my Broadlink RM mini

Newtown90 · 19-03-2019 9:50am

Finally got a few hours to sit down and configure my NUC to run Docker & Hassio yesterday.

I got my Xiaomi Miija Devices all set up and working ( Temp & Humidity Sensors, Door & Window Sensors, Motion Sensors, Smoke Detector and a Switch ).

All working and reading back nicely, customized and grouped together.

Problem Number 1:
Still attempting to locate the token for the Yeelights proved a bit beyond the time I had allowed so after a number of different of attempts form what I found on Google I left it for the time being.

Problem Number 2:
Having purchased the Teckin Smart Plugs from the Flash Amazon sales I flashed them with Tasmota. I installed the MQTT Broker plugin on HASSIO and setup the plugs to match. However no success with Auto-Discovery. After much googling I tried another option, I set up a Cloud MQTT Broker. I configured the plugs and could see them on the Broker – however again they were not showing up on my Home Assistant.

This is what is in my configuration.yaml:

[PHP]mqtt:
broker: xxxxxxx
port: xxxxxxxxx
username: xxxxxxx
password: xxxxxx [/PHP]

From what I’ve read the plugs should automatically show in the Integrations MQTT in Configuation?

I’ve also tried placing this in my configuration.yaml but to no success:

[PHP]switch:
platform: mqtt
name: “Sonoff1”
command_topic: “cmnd/sonoff1/power”
state_topic: “stat/sonoff1/POWER”
qos: 1
payload_on: “ON”
payload_off: “OFF”
retain: true[/PHP]

If I do get this connected, how do I customize similar to my Xiaomi Sensors? for example, in my customize.yaml file the Xiaomi Sensors are:

sensor.temperature_158d00016fdxxx:
  friendly_name: Kitchen Temperature
sensor.humidity_158d00016fdxxx:
  friendly_name: Kitchen Humidity
  icon: mdi:water-percent
binary_sensor.door_window_sensor_158d000xxxxxx:
    friendly_name: Kitchen Door
    device_class: opening

I suspect I've a few more evenings scratching my head and getting dirty looks from herself!

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