Home Assistant

Just reading a bit more about the nextion displays, where did you get it? Amazon? They look interesting as a control interface.

They take an SD card which is formatted with the used-designed layout then receive a UART in to input the values and text for each of the predefined elements. Pretty cool. Might look into obtaining one as a way of getting the kids to stop turning on the boiler to heat water when it already there and waiting. feckers.

On a Nextion?

You would have to import the equivalent sensor (such as sensor.energy_production_tomorrow_2 which I have for the basic Forecast.Solar integration) over the to Nextion. You import them onto the ESP32 like so, for example:

sensor:
  - platform: homeassistant
    id: office_temperature
    entity_id: sensor.tsr_ah_kitchenlower_air_temperature
  - platform: homeassistant
    id: downstairs_trv_temp_median
    entity_id: sensor.downstairs_trv_temp_median

Then work them into whatever layout (via suitable printf statements) you composed on the Nextion via the editor mentioned on the esphome page.

I've never had a sub and have full access to mine in HA using the Ring-MQTT addon.

Using the newer proximity features? Did you set it up as an automation? If so go into the automation and click "edit in YAML" and then post the text here.

I have a couple of the Lidl smart plugs, strips and led strips. Can't fault them at all.

Them and IKEA are a great source of cheap kit without shopping in China, but I have found some of the their stuff temperamental.

hi folks - using a motion sensor to check for postbox opening.. so i know to check for deliveries if im out etc.. was thinking could turn on a hue light to a certain colour or something to notify post has been delivered? I've no problem setting up HA automations just trying to think of a sensible thing to do - can you send an email from HA handy enough?

thanks yeah thats all i need really. it would push to the home assistant app?

got that working with a hue motion sensor and automation in ha.. works a charm..

Are you using a VPN to connect your mobile into the home WiFi network or how is the connectivity happening between the mobile and the server? Or do you just have the HA cloud enabled?

And is that tunnel still connecting? Do the sensors for the devices / people show that they are being detected at the gate? And then the same for that parking brake sensor.

Then you probably need to look at the traces for the automation to work out what's going wrong.

https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/automation/troubleshooting/

Seems there has been some changes impacting units, and a new integration for proximity too. https://community.home-assistant.io/t/proximity-sensors-2024-not-working/708763

Start with your lights and any smart switches you have. They are as straightforward to setup as they get (for the majority of manufacturer's anyways). Once you get your head around those, then start adding other sensors and devices.

Then start thinking as to what automations you want for your house, this part is, for me, the toughest part as I can never decide on what rules I want to apply, and often change some of them.

As you start adding devices, have a think as to your layout and how you want them all to display on your phone/ tablet. Check out Everything Smarthome on YouTube, he has a few videos reviewing some fantastic looking dashboards, some insanely complex but many are achievable for a beginner.

Finally find out how to backup and restore your setup, and do it regularly, esp after adding a load of devices or automations. Mistakes are quite easy to make at the start, or even after a few years😬, so you will be so glad of having a recent backup saved to your laptop that you can easily restore if you F up.

There is one for Met Eireann, and it works very well. That's the only local one I know of. Other Irish organisations don't seem to ever bother offering an API.

Just wondering if anyonce can help as to why this automation did not run and what I did wrong in setting it up.

alias: Discharge Battery

description: ""

trigger:
platform: time

at: input_datetime.saturday_discharge

condition:condition: numeric_state

entity_id: sensor.solarman_battery_soc

above: 30

action:service: script.solis_test

data: {}

mode: single

I created a helper for it to run every Saturday at 8am.

I see nothing in the logs it did not appear to run at all but will run manually.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks Jonathan

Just got a chance to look at it again and forgot I was using the simple scheduler addon so just added a task at 8am Saturday to enable discharge by calling the script to change from self use to time of use.

service: script.appdaemon_passthrough

data:

action: inverter_write_holding_register

register_addr: "{{ 43110 }}"

register_value: "{{ 35 }}"

I have the charge and discharge times set on the inverter.

Then I created an automation to avoid the batteries completely running out before 9am before I can charge from the grid free of charge.

alias: Disable Discharge 15%

description: ""

trigger:
type: battery_level

platform: device

device_id: 1f5534720341be55385dd8ea5d660601

entity_id: 631a521c23d7f4377dc76a5b88b7e411

domain: sensor

below: 15

for:

hours: 0

minutes: 0

seconds: 10

condition: []

action:service: script.solis_disable_grid_charging

data: {}

mode: single

It really could. I had completely forgot I had setup Simple Scheduler well over a year ago when I could not figure out how to create a schedule based on a day and time.

It was only when I went digging again after your reply I realised how the other Saturday tasks ran without issue.

I have a few Tuya devices setup and working in HA. It was clunky to setup and every 6 months I need to request a trial extension for the API's.

https://developer.tuya.com/en/docs/iot/Home-assistant-tuya-intergration?id=Kb0eqjig0utdd

I'm bland new to home assistant. I have it running on a VM on windows. So far so good. I have built a few dashboards.

I am thinking of getting a HA Green. Does anyone have experience ordering or using the Green?