Bosch Smart Home

Raven1 · December 9, 2021, 6:45pm

Thanks did that already, somehow had to reload the integration, now it works.

Thank you

florian.ec · December 16, 2021, 4:56pm

Just as information for those who are interested, Bosch is delivering the option to turn off automatic updates on the SHC with the App Update next week. It’s already integrated in the SHC Updated from 13th Dec. 13. Dezember 2021 | Software Release Notes | Bosch Smart Home System | Bosch Smart Home

For me this is great news because you now have the choice to wait if there is an update that breaks or changes the integration with HA.

ATLAIT00 · December 28, 2021, 9:20am

Hi guys,

yesterday i switched to the HACS integration of Bosch Smart Home Controller (SHC). Unfortunately I’m not able to get the integration up and running; but I’m also new “on HACS”

So what I did:

getting HACS installed
SHC installed truth HACS (incl. the LOG that you mentioned @tschamm

2021-12-28 09:04:01 WARNING (SyncWorker_1) [homeassistant.loader] We found a custom integration bosch_shc which has not been tested by Home Assistant. This component might cause stability problems, be sure to disable it if you experience issues with Home Assistant

Try to add the integration with Configuration - Integrations - Add Integration - each for Bosch SHC
but i get an

Error
Config flow could not be loaded

Any hints what I need to do to get this integration running with HACS?

And maybe somebody can tell me also how I can activate the auto discovery? That works also not

Thx,
Atha

tschamm · December 28, 2021, 12:34pm

Auto-Discovery should be available after a restart of HA. Did you try to do a restart of HA?

ATLAIT00 · December 28, 2021, 7:54pm

yes of course I did a restart (a few times) and also empty the cache.

tschamm · December 28, 2021, 9:33pm

Well I guess the issue is not (directly) with our integration, but more with HACS. There are others reporting similar issues here.

Can you provide details on the following:

in the custom_components/bosch_shc directory, is there a file config_flow.py?
which boschshcpy library was installed in your system?

The problem is either related to HACS, or there is some problem within the config flow mechanism, at least that’s what I guess…

ATLAIT00 · December 28, 2021, 9:51pm

Thx for your feedback @tschamm

I just re-install everything (HACS and all integrations) - still the same issue

I have on my RP4: ~/docker/homeassistant/custom_components/bosch_shc and also the config_flow.py is in this directory.

For the installation of HACS I used this: https://hacs.xyz/docs/setup/download (Option 2: Run the downloader inside the container) so I hope no mistake with the HACS installation.

I installed the latest 0.4.23 lib.

tschamm · December 28, 2021, 10:35pm

Ok, and can you see which version of boschshcpy is used? This is located in the site-packages folder of your python system.

tschamm · December 29, 2021, 9:38am

The problem can also result from errors in your configuration.yaml, see this post:

Just out of curiosity: Did you configure bosch_shc within the configuration.yaml? This may lead to an error as well.

tuccler · January 27, 2022, 9:29pm

Hey there,
I’m using the HACS integration of Bosch Smart Home Controller (SHC) for some months now and im still impressed by it. I don’t regret having bought the Bosch components.

The only thing i’m missing is triggering scenarios in combination with presence controll. I wanted to solve this with an automation from Home Assistant.

I tried to use the service “Bosch SHC: tigger_scenario” to trigger the scenario i wanted but I can’t get it to work. What do i have to type into the service data field to select the right scenario?

service: bosch_shc.trigger_scenario
data:
  name: Haus verlassen

armin-gh · January 27, 2022, 9:59pm

Hi
anything in the log when you trigger the scenario?

I do not use the scenarios yet, but I created a new scenario named “Test1” in Bosch-App on my phone and called the service from the DEV-Tools with (YAML-Mode)

service: bosch_shc.trigger_scenario
data:
  name: Test1

switched on a lamp as configured in the scenario.
Had to restart HA to pick up the new scenario in the integration, prior to that Error was

[homeassistant.components.websocket_api.http.connection] [2851611960] Error handling message: value must be one of [] for dictionary value @ data['name']. Got None

Did you create the “Haus verlassen”-Scenario in the App and configure the actions? The scenarios are listed as preconfigured, but I believe they do not exist as scenario until you went through the configuration and stored it as a new scenario.

Armin

tuccler · January 28, 2022, 10:44am

Hey Armin,
thanks for the quick reply. Yes, I tried it first with the 2 preconfigured scenarios. After this i createad a new scenario named “Test” but i didn’t restart HA after this.

Now after the reboot it works. Thanks a lot!

Edit: I also got the same Error message when i was trying with a different syntax to select the scenario.

andre68723 · February 10, 2022, 9:13am

Hi @tschamm

not sure if this is already supported or not - are there plans to expose the Scenarios from the Controller as scene entities? I saw that there is an API for scenarios
https://apidocs.bosch-smarthome.com/local/#/Scenarios/get_scenarios

and e.g. the hue integration also exposes all hue scenes as Entity with name scene.<room>_<scene_name>

github.com

home-assistant/core/blob/8760cb035abf0bca6db80841c3d9126bf0af19a9/homeassistant/components/hue/scene.py#L40

    
      
              async_add_entities: entity_platform.AddEntitiesCallback,
          ) -> None:
              """Set up scene platform from Hue group scenes."""
              bridge: HueBridge = hass.data[DOMAIN][config_entry.entry_id]
              api: HueBridgeV2 = bridge.api
          
          
    if bridge.api_version == 1:
                  # should not happen, but just in case
                  raise NotImplementedError("Scene support is only available for V2 bridges")
          
          
    # add entities for all scenes
              @callback
              def async_add_entity(event_type: EventType, resource: HueScene) -> None:
                  """Add entity from Hue resource."""
                  async_add_entities([HueSceneEntity(bridge, api.scenes, resource)])
          
          
    # add all current items in controller
              for item in api.scenes:
                  async_add_entity(EventType.RESOURCE_ADDED, item)
          
          
    # register listener for new items only

That would be a nice enhancement.

Thanks, Andre

tschamm · February 11, 2022, 4:33pm

Scenarios can be triggered via events currently. I‘ll have a look next week if it makes sense to integrate it the way hue does it.

philjak · March 6, 2022, 7:19am

Hello everyone,

I’m wondering if someone has an YAML (or via GUI) example, how to configure an automation, that is listening for an event, if the alarm has been fired. I’m currently listening on the state of the smoke detectors, but I experienced, that this now has a 5-6 seconds delay.

Also, I would be interested in what device has triggered the event, if possible.

Thanks for your help, everyone!

Best,
Philip

ninjabenji · March 6, 2022, 7:45pm

  - alias: Turn on lights on smoke alarm
    trigger:
      - platform: event
        event_type: bosch_shc.event
        event_data:
          id: "smokeDetectionSystem"
          event_type: "ALARM"
    action:
      - service: homeassistant.turn_on
        entity_id:
          - switch.livingroom_light1
etc, etc

This does have a slight delay and does not tell you which fired.
However, you can do the same on individual alarms and you get instant firing of the event and you can tell which one it is. The downside being that if you have 5 smoke alarms you would need 5 automations.

saxn-paule · March 19, 2022, 6:45pm

Is it possible to trigger the siren of all smoke detectors simultaniously based on an HA automation? If yes, how?

gintonic26 · May 1, 2022, 1:04pm

Did I miss something or are the water sensors not supported (yet) ?

I can get information about battery level, but I don’t get a hint on wet / dry or on / off?

tschamm · May 1, 2022, 1:52pm

What component are you using? The custom one or the one shipped with HA? The water sensor is supported in the custom component version.
Best, Thomas

gintonic26 · May 1, 2022, 3:17pm

Till now I am only using the sipped version. So I should install the custom version I guess.