For the first time since using variables, the values aren’t restoring for me after a reboot today.
The only change I made was to add a fourth variable to my configuration.yaml, which was this one:
times_motion_cam2_zone4_triggered:
value: 0
attributes:
friendly_name: 'Times Camera Two Zone 4 Triggered'
icon: mdi:cctv
restore: true
The variables work as perfectly as ever. I’ve done several reboots over the last few days with no issue, but today the values aren’t surviving a reboot or a restart.
Here’s my grafana stats for two of them showing no problems after many issue-free restarts & reboots. I reset the values at midnight.
I try to use variables, without sucess. i’m using hassbian. And what I want is:
-Write a value from another component, (sensor, counter, etc…) in a variable.
-Create an automation to do the write with a trigger. Without scripts.
-Restart homeautomation or the raspberry pi without loosing the values.
Until now I could only do that with input_number, and in slider type, in box type the value ins’t stored.
The idea is:
-The automation is trigger by a MQTT topic change.
-The condition is that the current time is bigger, by 2 seconds, that the oldTime (a variable).
-the action is:
-Increment total_gas (a variable) by 0.01
-Set oldTime with current time.
I have already this automation working with input_number, but I would like to chang’t to variable.
Could someone help.
This custom component is just what I need. However, I can’t get it to work. I created a “custom_components” folder in my configuration directory (/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/custom_components) and placed the variable.py file there. I then added a simple variable component declarion to the configuration file. After restarting HA, I get:
Component not found: variable
5:39 PM components/__init__.py (ERROR)
Is that the correct configuration of your file? I’m running HA version 0.66.1
I am unable to get it to work with hass.io version 0.68.0 on raspbery pi.
I have other custom components that are working.
This is the error I get when I click on [check config] in hass.io
Configuration invalid
Component not found: variable
Can these defined variables be used and written to from a bash shell script being executed using the shell component. Specifically I have 3 variables being created by the shell script and I want to make them available to HA.
Thanks, Ynot
I’m using a little python script with the API to populate variables at runtime.
After the variables.yaml has changed, watcher triggers the script, and the variables in HA are updated, if ‘restore: true’ is not set.
Maybe you can use it.
import yaml
import requests
config_file = '/home/homeassi/.homeassistant/variables.yaml'
url = 'http://localhost:8123/api/states/variable.'
headers = {'x-ha-access': 'your_password', 'content-type': 'application/json'}
def read_variables_yaml():
with open(config_file, 'r') as stream:
try:
config = yaml.load(stream)
except yaml.YAMLError as exc:
print(exc)
return config
json = read_variables_yaml()
errors = ''
for v in json:
variable = v
state = json[v]['value']
restore = json[v]['restore']
if not restore:
if 'attributes' in json[v]:
attributes = str(json[v]['attributes'])
data = '{"state": "' + str(state) + '", "attributes": ' + attributes + '}'
else:
data = '{"state": "' + str(state) + '"}'
data = data.replace("'",'"')
#print(variable, data)
r = requests.post(url+variable, data=data, headers=headers)
if r.status_code != 200 and r.status_code != 201:
errors = errors + 'ERROR:' + variable + ' - ' + str(r.status_code)
if errors != '':
print(errors)
Thanks a lot for this nice component. I played a lot with it around and used it in different ways.
Now, I want to use it to store three values coming in via MQTT, but this seems not working!
Here is what I tried: define a variable in configuration.yaml
This is working pretty well, but as soon as I want to update the variable with a value from my light sensor it fails. What happens is, that the variable just lists the string “{{ states.sensor.weatherstation_light_level.state | int }}’”. Code looks like this:
Thanks for the variable component . Is it possible to use a variable in the delay option? So lets say I have a numeric value of 2000 that I want to use in an automation to delay it for 2000 miliseconds. And if I change the variable to 3000 the automation will have a delay of 3000 miliseconds.
Set your variable to be a delay in seconds
I use a random delay for my holiday lights - delay: "{{range(0,1200+1)|random|timestamp_custom('%X',false)}}"
It can be easily adjusted to be a variable instead:
Thanks for the quick reply, when I try your delay with my own variable it says: delay template: UndefinedError: ‘variable’ is undefined. Do you know why?
EDIT: got him, when I use: - delay: "{{states.variable.test_var.state|timestamp_custom('%X',false)}}" it is working fine!
EDIT2: the random on in delay is nice…but when I use 2 variables to replace the 0 and 1200 in range(0,1200) with 2 variables it is not working. Do you have an idea on that one?
. Is it possible to use a variable in the delay option? So lets say I have a numeric value of 2000 that I want to use in an automation to delay it for 2000 miliseconds. And if I change the variable to 3000 the automation will have a delay of 3000 miliseconds.