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You just shared your token and you home assistant url, that’s really something you should not make public! Immediately delete your access token and generate a new one!

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Your appdaemon.yaml configuration is invalid. Below is an excerpt from my appdaemon.yaml file as a reference.

secrets: /conf/secrets.yaml
logs:
  main_log:
    filename: /conf/logs/appdaemon.log
  error_log:
    filename: /conf/logs/error.log
  access_log:
    filename: /conf/logs/access.log
appdaemon:
  time_zone: 'Europe/Zurich'
  latitude: !secret latitude
  longitude: !secret longitude
  elevation: !secret elevation
  missing_app_warnings: 1
  production_mode: False
  app_dir: /conf/apps
  plugins:
    HASS:
      type: hass
      namespace: hass
      token: !secret appdaemon_token
      ha_url: http://192.168.0.5:8123
http:
  url: http://192.168.0.5:5050
api:
admin:
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For you information, I flagged your post to get it removed. Should this ever happen again, ask a moderator to remove your post as soon as possible and change all the information that got leaked immediately.

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your appdaemon.yaml file appears to have fixed my issues.

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what does this mean in http://192.168.0.21:5050

tv_sonos_speaker: Entity sensor.ikea_sound_action not found in namespace default

Basically HAdashbaord appears and everything looks good however the controller fails.

I checked HA and it works in there

apps.yaml

tv_sonos_speaker:
  module: controllerx
  class: E1744MediaPlayerController
  sensor: sensor.ikea_sound_action
  media_player: media_player.tv_sonos

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Either remove the line

namespace: hass

from the appdaemon.yaml or change it to

namespace: default

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OK now it is kind of working now and I suspect the issue might be Sonos and the controllerX code

Not working
Volume not working I expect Sonos need to see volume as 0.99 and controllerX uses 99
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Do you use “debounce” on th z2m config? I have noticed that if debounce option is on?

The code itself just calles the service media_player.volume_up from HA. Does this work from HA?

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haha yes removing debounce fixed it

Thanks everyone for all help much it was appreciated! You guys really are the best!!!

Now on to getting HCAS loaded and working.

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You are welcome. I am glad it worked. I am working now in some changes that will require to change your configuration for ControllerX a bit. I will keep you updated in this thread.

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My only issue is the number of rotions needed to increase to 50% is a lot

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That is becauae of the default delay which is 1s, you can add a new entry below media_player

delay: 500

Maybe it will work better for you, you can tweak it so it works best for you.

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where can I find the delay: ?

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tv_sonos_speaker:
  module: controllerx
  class: E1744MediaPlayerController
  sensor: sensor.ikea_sound_action
  media_player: media_player.tv_sonos
  delay: 500

Sorry, here is the context for the delay option.

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for more context what is the default delay?

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You can find the delays depending on the used class in here: https://github.com/xaviml/controllerx/wiki/Supported-controllers

For the E1744MediaPlayerController the default is 1000. Did the delay 500 do something?

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lower the number to say 200 makes the rotation jump in 4% at a time instead of 2%

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Hello, I am trying to set this up but I have the feeling that I am missing something. Got HA in docker with HACS with AppDaemon. I installed ControllerX and so far so good. Rebooted the whole thing.

I then added this to my configuration:

livingroom_controller:
module: controllerx
class: E1810Controller
sensor: sensor.tradfri_remote_control_action
light: group.inlights

livingroom_dimmer:
module: controllerx
class: ICTCG1Controller
sensor: sensor.tradfri_wireless_dimmer_action
light: light.572060402cf4321abbee

sensor.tradfri_remote_control and sensor.tradfri_wireless_dimmer are the name that I got from the IKEA TradFri integration. Just added _action after that.

And this here that I am not sure I am doing this correctly. Shoud I remove the integration and set up a Zigbee2MQTT integration and therefore I need to install someting like this https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/ ?

I am confused because the documentation says it does not use Z2M but then I read you can get the name of the entities in Z2M integration.

So far I get this on startup : Setup failed for livingroom_controller: Integration not found.

I then added in my configuration with the home that it would discover devices but no luck.

mqtt:
discovery: true
discovery_prefix: homeassistant

What I am trying to get is event from the buttons so I can trigger actions in automation.

Can you point me in the right direction ?
What should be done on mqtt side ?

Thanks !

What I don’t get is zigbee2mqtt installation send you there this page sends you back to the first one. I understand the best way to get mqtt in HA is to set the mqtt configuration with discovery set to true, but I have no idea how you actually install z2m to be able to do this In your Zigbee2mqtt configuration.yaml set homeassistant: true

All searches send me to HASSIO only :frowning:

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Every time the volume up/down service from HA is called it changes 1% only?

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In order to use the devices you need the device to be integrated either with deCONZ or Zigbee2mqtt, do you have any of this two integrations?