home assistant

[ARHarh]

Trustmeimadoctor said:

ive done this


but everything is too big and it still look crap and i need a load more info on there really just for heating

See above post

If you set up a grid card with 3 cards wide then put each of those gauges in the grid card it would then only take up 1/3 or 1//4 of your display depending on display resolution. You can then adjust how many cards wide you want the grid etc. Then add some conditional cards for stuff you need warnings about so they only show when you need the info Like the person card in mine only shows who is not home and where they are.

My wallpanel dash using 2 grid cards

[Trustmeimadoctor]

fking 4 hours trying to get a smart energy monitor plug to work to mqtt it was one I flashed with tasmota

Turned out i was using the wrong username should have been mqtt-user not mqtt_user

[paulrockliffe]

ARHarh said:

Trustmeimadoctor said:

ive done this


but everything is too big and it still look crap and i need a load more info on there really just for heating

See above post

If you set up a grid card with 3 cards wide then put each of those gauges in the grid card it would then only take up 1/3 or 1//4 of your display depending on display resolution. You can then adjust how many cards wide you want the grid etc. Then add some conditional cards for stuff you need warnings about so they only show when you need the info Like the person card in mine only shows who is not home and where they are.

My wallpanel dash using 2 grid cards

What do you use for the cards for people that are out?

You should setup an automatic door opener for your conservatory - if it's hotter in the conservatory and the house is cold, open the door.

[ARHarh]

paulrockliffe said:

ARHarh said:

Trustmeimadoctor said:

ive done this


but everything is too big and it still look crap and i need a load more info on there really just for heating

See above post

If you set up a grid card with 3 cards wide then put each of those gauges in the grid card it would then only take up 1/3 or 1//4 of your display depending on display resolution. You can then adjust how many cards wide you want the grid etc. Then add some conditional cards for stuff you need warnings about so they only show when you need the info Like the person card in mine only shows who is not home and where they are.

My wallpanel dash using 2 grid cards

What do you use for the cards for people that are out?

You should setup an automatic door opener for your conservatory - if it's hotter in the conservatory and the house is cold, open the door.

The people out card is a picture elements card in a conditional card.

https://www.home-assistant.io/dashboards/picture-e...

https://www.home-assistant.io/dashboards/condition...

Now I am going to have to invent a door opener, thanks for that Off to the shed to cobble together some levers and motors.

[paulrockliffe]

Thanks. You could use a fan to pump the heat through, add it like a cat flap to one of the door panels.

[ARHarh]

paulrockliffe said:

Thanks. You could use a fan to pump the heat through, add it like a cat flap to one of the door panels.

I already use the conservatory to heat the house, a sunny winters day and all the south facing windows warm the house up, no need for heating. No need for fans convection does the job. Its only 24 degrees in there right now, and the door is open, 18 degrees outside.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

ok so i have more stuff in HA now and i still cant get it looking pretty

but never mind! i have temp sensors in most rooms due to my evohome setup but id like more (the rad valves and room stats are ruinously expensive)

what good solutions are there for HA i dont have any sort of zigbee or anything control just wifi at the moment oh and bluetooth.

i dont want to build anything on a breadboard i just want turn on and spend 5 hours trying to get ha to find it

[paulrockliffe]

Same question, but is there a small discrete box you can buy that has temp, humidity, presence and whatever else built in? I don't want to fill the rooms with stuff and I'm sure no one else does, so has anyone developed an all-in-one room sensor thingy?

[ARHarh]

Trustmeimadoctor said:

ok so i have more stuff in HA now and i still cant get it looking pretty

but never mind! i have temp sensors in most rooms due to my evohome setup but id like more (the rad valves and room stats are ruinously expensive)

what good solutions are there for HA i dont have any sort of zigbee or anything control just wifi at the moment oh and bluetooth.

i dont want to build anything on a breadboard i just want turn on and spend 5 hours trying to get ha to find it

Cheapest will no doubt be D1 mini with a DHT11 sensor and Tasmota firmware. Or a shelly thing maybe.

https://tasmota.github.io/docs/

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363891216533?hash=item5...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/394193156573?hash=item5...

https://shelly.cloud/shelly_plus_h-t/

I use D1 Minis powered by old phone chargers in 3d printed boxes. This may not be possible if you don't have some kit. But Tasmota is easy to use and setup on a D1 Mini. Some of my D1 minis do a lot of stuff. My Office one detects light levels, temperature, humidity, air pressure and motion.

[Bodo]

FunkyGibbon said:

paulrockliffe said:

I have it running in Docker on UnRaid, it's great, I'm a big fan! It is a bit annoying that I don't have HACS, I don't understand why exactly, but when I Google for stuff too often I end up needing HACS. Can anyone explain why I can't have HACS and all that?

You may have installed Home Assistant Core - which does not have the supervisor and add-ons. You need HassOS, Home Assistant Container or Home Assistant Supervised

Need to resurrect this thread. I use hass in a docker container on my Raspi 4. I installed that with Mosquitto, Node Red, InfluxDB and Grafana using the IOTStack script. First SD card went three weeks in, as I was writing a lot to the database. I then bought a cheap 128GB USB SSD; all fine now.

That said, it is possible to use HACS in hass in a docker container - https://hacs.xyz/docs/configuration/basic

[Trustmeimadoctor]

iv just purchased a orange pi 5 16gb with 256GB nvme bit ott just for ha so will use proxmox and put some more vm's on it i think

should be a bit faster than my pi 3b

ive also now running some sonoff th-elite and pow-elite

[outnumbered]

I've started experimenting with HA, even though we don't currently have that much stuff it can control or monitor. Running on a Pi3 (not even a B) and it seems to be fast enough so far.

So far I've got it monitoring people coming and going using Unifi wifi integration, and it will turn on/off the heater in the office based on the reachability of the desktop PC in there and the value of the current outside temperature. We also have automated external shading for one room that it can control to a simple extent, so I plan to do something with that, based on temperature and sun position. I'm going to try the Hildebrand DCC integration to give overall energy use, but there seem to have been some bugs in that recently, so waiting for those to be fixed.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

my hildebrand from my ihd is working fine

[outnumbered]

Trustmeimadoctor said:

my hildebrand from my ihd is working fine

Good to know, I’ll give it a go.

[Trevatanus]

I want to have a crack and setting up a Home Assistant environment at home this year.
I was debating going the Raspberry Pi route, but before I do, I am running an HP Gen 8 MicroServer, which currently stores movies to be accessed by my Smart TV, and nothing else.
Can I run HA on it instead of using a Pi?

[Trustmeimadoctor]

yes but depending on how its set up you will loose everything you can run it on windows

but really its much nicer on linux and even easier on the homeassistant os

Edited by Trustmeimadoctor on Friday 6th January 16:53

[outnumbered]

Trevatanus said:

I want to have a crack and setting up a Home Assistant environment at home this year.
I was debating going the Raspberry Pi route, but before I do, I am running an HP Gen 8 MicroServer, which currently stores movies to be accessed by my Smart TV, and nothing else.
Can I run HA on it instead of using a Pi?

It's very, very, easy to run it on a Pi or a standalone x86 machine. All other methods to run it on an existing host require some form of additional setup, and come with limitations. So I'd really recommend using a standalone box if you possibly can. Mine's running fine on a Pi3 (not even a + version).

[Trustmeimadoctor]

I was using a pi3b just moved to a hp t630 thin client as a stopgap before my new orange pi 5 is here

An old thin client works well ok energy consumption 14w ish compared to a pi3b at 4w more powerfull and upgradeable easily storage etc

Oh and I paid about 30 for it try getting a pi for 30!

Edited by Trustmeimadoctor on Friday 6th January 19:16

[durbster]

Trevatanus said:

I want to have a crack and setting up a Home Assistant environment at home this year.
I was debating going the Raspberry Pi route, but before I do, I am running an HP Gen 8 MicroServer, which currently stores movies to be accessed by my Smart TV, and nothing else.
Can I run HA on it instead of using a Pi?

The Pi's were stuck with supply issues when I was looking last year and it looks like they're still out of stock. I ended up getting an Odroid N2+ with HA preinstalled. I've been really happy with it and would recommend it as another option.

https://www.odroid.co.uk/Home-Automation

[RizzoTheRat]

Losing my rag with the damn thing now. Installed HA in a VM on my Synology NAS, can see the Sonoff Zigbee plus dongle on it, cannot get Zigbee2MQTT to work!
Going to try wiping the VM and installing from scratch in case I messed something up