Goal Run Python code in Home Assistant. In my case, this code does not have any interaction with HA services or entities. It just needs to do things. Problem Python in HA has a specific set of libraries (for security and stability reasons). And how good that is, it … read more…
Why a new watermeter? Setup hardware Setup Home Assistant Q&A Summary Next Setup HomeSeer New Watermeter, why? In this blog post I described the “Smart Gateways” watermeter setup. As it was a nightmare to keep this device operational and it was not possible to … read more…
Team, After the super easy installation of the nicely priced Home Wizard watermeter (post with instructions & more details) a friend using Homeseer also bought it. Because there’s no native Homeseer integration I decided to create a script that allow Homeseer users to use this watermeter. Requirements Homeseer > 4.0 … read more…
GOAL: display information in a more compact way. This is functional information. By default Home Assistant likes to use a lot of space. Sometimes, you don’t have a lot of space, especially on mobile devices. And sometimes, information is functional without any need to look good. (even though I don’t … read more…
What is the real outside temperature? My sensors reported temperatures ranging from 13.7° to almost 19°?? Temperature sensors in my system: Zigbee – Philips Hue indoor/outdoor motion sensor Bluetooth – XIaomi temp sensor 433 Mhz – Oregon scientific sensors (fantastic devices!) Zigbee – Aquara temp sensor (horrible) Wifi – Shelly … read more…
GOAL Automate the hallway lamp as much as possible Minimizing lamp turned on if not needed Wife doesn’t want it to be turned OFF in the evening (except after 21:00) Schedule cc Countdown Timers – Example Flow Notes You can always overrule rules using wallswitch or app If the … read more…
By default, Home Assistant adds icons to nearly all user interface components. In many occasions, icons are not needed at all. Scenario: A card with 5 counters Why would you need counter icons when the card title says “Counter” and you know what these numbers are? With Home Assistant … read more…
Suddenly my logbook was GONE? It was not in the UI. First troubleshooting step: check the logs and check configuration.yaml. In the configuration.yaml This contained the following code: python_script: logbook: exclude: entities: – sensor.ha_uptime – sensor.ha_uptime_minutes – sensor.date_time Wait, what? If you look carefully it seems like the logbook: … read more…
UPDATE: check out the setup of the (way better) watermeter from HomeWizard 👍 For the past 15 years I have been monitoring shower water consumption using an RFX Meter. That works fine but it uses 433Mhz to transfer data to the RFX_LAN. And as I want to reduce the amount … read more…
How do you deal with camera snapshots? Where do you store them, how do you archive them? In short: 1. Take snapshot 2. Store snapshot 3. Copy to archive location Let’s first think about what should trigger the creation of a camera snapshot. Snapshot triggers What triggers … read more…
