Home Assistant beginners

Feek said:
I don't have that anywhere.
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Settings -> Devices & Services
 
There's nothing there.

I'll start another instance on a Pi, see exactly how it discovers stuff and add it in manually.
 
Currently have a hue setup at home, but have been looking at HA.

Would I be possible using this to have a PIR turn on some exterior garage lighting when the PIR is triggered, but also have those lights always on between certain times but dimmed?

On a side note, is there an unraid docker?
 
Feek said:
There's nothing there.

I'll start another instance on a Pi, see exactly how it discovers stuff and add it in manually.
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if you can remember what you want to add back in then go to Settings/ Devices & Services, click on the Add Integration button on the bottom right and search for what you want to add. Draytek isn’t there btw
 
Too Tall said:
Currently have a hue setup at home, but have been looking at HA.

Would I be possible using this to have a PIR turn on some exterior garage lighting when the PIR is triggered, but also have those lights always on between certain times but dimmed?

On a side note, is there an unraid docker?
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If the PIR is part of the Hue system then yes, it’ll be straight forward to do what you want.

Just checked and yes, there’s a HA container in Unraid
 
Bluecube said:
If the PIR is part of the Hue system then yes, it’ll be straight forward to do what you want.

Just checked and yes, there’s a HA container in Unraid
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Thanks!

I don’t currently have any of the parts for the project, so will be able to start from scratch.

Is there a go to website for part selection for projects?
 
Bluecube said:
if you can remember what you want to add back in then go to Settings/ Devices & Services, click on the Add Integration button on the bottom right and search for what you want to add. Draytek isn’t there btw
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Aye, that's what I did first of all, it'll be some kind of snmp thing but that didn't find it either. It's OK, I'll work it out :)
 
the-evaluator said:
I'm using a UniFi UXG Max.

Home Assistant is querying the UXG using SNMP and it's that data which is being displayed. It should work for any router that supports SNMP but I doubt Virgin Media have it configured or give you the option to configure it on their Hub.
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Can you pull usage data via SNMP for Unifi? It's annoying that it's fully available in the Unifi app, but the integration on HA doesn't have this.
 
dlockers said:
Code: 
template:
  - sensor:
      - name: "Cost today"
        unit_of_measurement: "£"
        state: >
          {% set consumption = states('sensor.garden_room_ac_today_s_consumption') | float %}
          {% set rate = states('sensor.octopus_energy_electricity_19l2262519_1012474423759_current_rate') | float %}

          {{ ((consumption * rate)) | round(1, default=0) }}

I'm not sure it is working but that could be because I am selecting the wrong sensors - the maths seems to be OK and I think the path I am following is OK though. Will troubleshoot

(I just checked and its stuck at £1)
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This does work for me - I've not had anything with a daily usage above £1 so it's not stuck at all.

I changed round(1 to round(2 to give me two decimal places on the cost and it's looking like this on the Sensors I've created so far.

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It's only a small thing but is there any way to get the £ before the value, so it shows at £0.44, £0.43, etc?
 
Semple said:
Can you pull usage data via SNMP for Unifi? It's annoying that it's fully available in the Unifi app, but the integration on HA doesn't have this.
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Hmm, I thought I'd replied to this.

I haven't some a full snmpwalk to check the tree, I'll try and have a look this week. I have a feeling though the usage is calcuated by UniFI rather than being pulled out of the gateway over SNMP.
 
Has anyone seen the "Binerator" post on FB?

Chap has used some scripts to colour a light bulb according to recycling/waste, and then uses AI to determine if the bin has been put out and then uses AI to determine if the bin has moved/i.e. been emptied lol
 
dlockers said:
Has anyone seen the "Binerator" post on FB?

Chap has used some scripts to colour a light bulb according to recycling/waste, and then uses AI to determine if the bin has been put out and then uses AI to determine if the bin has moved/i.e. been emptied lol
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**** easy to do
Just have Frigate monitor some zones and the light bulb is ugly why didn't he just push it to an esp32 display instead :rolleyes:
 
I've started setting up a couple of custom dashboards, just with switches and cost/current power consumption. There will be a load more to add when I start deploying those power blocks I got but this is a decent start.

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Currently only really using HA for power and cost tracking, but I feel as though I'd like to add more.

All my lights are Hue and I have many automations and shortcuts set via HomeKit so I need to investigate whether I can move them over.

I have motion sensors in various places that trigger lights but only under certain situations - For example, in the hall and landing, if there's movement detected from an hour before sunset to an hour after sunrise and the ambient light level is below a specific lux, then the light will come on and then go off when there's been no movement for a minute. Is this the sort of thing I can do in HA but also have voice control via HomePods? So as well as this configuration, I can say 'hey Siri, turn on the hall light'.

Or is it asking too much?
 
I personally wouldn't put all your eggs in one basket. I still retain my Hue Hub to manage lights locally. It doesn't prevent me from doing anything in HA (or at least, it hasn't yet).

Are you getting power usage for all of those devices through your Tapo extension leads? Each plug has monitoring? That is quite cool if so.
 
I also retained the Hue Hub for all the light bulbs as I didn't want those on the same Zigbee channel as my other Zigbee devices given how many I have. This was also to reduce potential 2.4Ghz WiFi interference as my Zigbee devices are now fairly evenly split over two Zigbee channels adjacent to two different 2.4GHz WiFi channels. However, I've since nearly got rid of 2.4GHz WiFi devices finally so this is less an issue now.

I did move the various Hue light switches to HA for more flexible configurations and also automating a mix of Hue bulbs and other general Zigbee devices from them.
 
dlockers said:
I personally wouldn't put all your eggs in one basket. I still retain my Hue Hub to manage lights locally. It doesn't prevent me from doing anything in HA (or at least, it hasn't yet).
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This is where I need guidance, I have a Hue hub bridged to HomeKit and it looks like if I want to have the Hue lights within Home Assistant, the best way to do it is via a bridge as well. So I either have to move the bridge over and integrate it within HA in one go or perhaps pick up another Hue bridge and migrate things over bit by bit.

The voice control via Siri is important though, "Siri, lumos" to turn on the lounge lights, etc. And so are the automations as described above. Because the automations are in HomeKit, they effectively run through the cloud rather than on the hub so if they can be moved locally to HA, they might run a little quicker.

dlockers said:
Are you getting power usage for all of those devices through your Tapo extension leads? Each plug has monitoring? That is quite cool if so.
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I've only deployed one of them so far, one in the back room and yes, each socket has individual switching and power monitoring. The others are all P110Ms that I got before the extension leads.

Most of the rest will be going into the shack where I'll be doing things like running another dumb extension from one smart socket to power all the Raspberry Pis, another one for the couple of little NUC style PCs I've got, etc etc.

That sounds like a bad thing to do but pretty much everything in my shack is very low power draw except from the amplifier and that's going into its own wall socket. Everything else is daisychained from another socket but there's nowhere near maximum load at all so it's perfectly fine.

Simon42 said:
I did move the various Hue light switches to HA for more flexible configurations and also automating a mix of Hue bulbs and other general Zigbee devices from them.
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Every room has a Hue switch as well, some are set for simple on/off, others have brightness controls and I've got a bunch of the Friends of Hue kinetic switches.

I seem to remember Hue bridges are pretty cheap second hand because a lot of people buy starter kits when they're on sale and end up with extra bridges they don't need.
 
Feek said:
This is where I need guidance, I have a Hue hub bridged to HomeKit and it looks like if I want to have the Hue lights within Home Assistant, the best way to do it is via a hub as well. So I either have to move the hub over and integrate it within HA in one go or perhaps pick up another hub and migrate things over bit by bit.

The voice control via Siri is important though, "Siri, lumos" to turn on the lounge lights, etc. And so are the automations as described above. Because the automations are in HomeKit, they effectively run through the cloud rather than on the hub so if they can be moved locally to HA, they might run a little quicker.
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If you keep your Hue Hub then I'm 99% certain you can have your lights in HomeKit and so controllable by Siri whilst also having them in HA through the Hue integration. The Hue integration will pull in all the devices connected to the Hue Hub for you to automate in HA as you wish. You can stick with your HomeKit automations or replicate them in HA but just watch you don't create conflicting automations on HomeKit and HA.

After many years of using the Hue integration I migrated all my Hue devices over to HA using an SLZB-06 co-ordinator and Zigbee2MQTT. I've also migrated my Hive TRVs so that's me down from three Zigbee networks to just one which made a big difference to my wifi environment!
 
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