Gardena smart system + Home assistant?

Third party integrations
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Hi!

Is anybody working on an integration with Gardena Smart Systems? For example to control your robotic lawnmower from HA. Would it be possible?

Also, I wasn’t sure if this was supposed to be posted in Third party integrations or Development. If it is in the wrong place please correct me! :wink:

Thanks for any response!

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that would be cool

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That would be great. There is an existing binding for OpenHab so it is definitely possible.

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I’m planning to get an automatic lawn mower as well. And actually I was looking for a solution, that could be integrated into HA.
So I also would love to see the support of the Gardena smart system in HA!

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Maybe it helps to know that the Gardena Smart component communication (e.g. gateway & “Smart Water Control”) is based on the Lemonbeat protocol founded & used by Innogy / RWE for it’s Smart Home system.

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This would be awesome. Ive setup my Gardena Smart Sileno City 500 this week. Would be perfect to get it integrated into Home Assistant. Anyone?:slight_smile:

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I have managed to interface my gardena mower with home assistant, at the moment read only.

It is based on:

http://www.dxsdata.com/2016/07/php-class-for-gardena-smart-system-api/

and

With a very simplistic way of interfacing with home assistant. I am not sure how much further i will take this. I might add support for starting it manually. I don’t have any other devices so not sure if i will take this any further.

My code is at :

Rene

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Cool! Would be awesome if you could continue development here. Saw someone was able to make an Alexa skill for Gardena Smart System, but they required that you provide your personal username/password for the service. That makes me a bit hesitant to add it :confused:

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Im running Home Assistant inside Docker. How do I install this gardena_smart.py?

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You should just be able to copy the file gardena_smart.py into the custom_components/sensor/ in your config folder.

The harder part will be to install the depency, i did this by ssh’ing into my home assistant box as root and then going into the home assistant docker with
docker exec -it homeassistant bash

and then running from the cloned git repository.
pip install . -t /config/deps/

Though it might work from your ssh shell.

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Ive done most of the steps, but this whole clone from Git and running the install has me confused. Do you have a quick 1/2/3 steps on how to do that part?

Im getting this error from Home Assistant after updating configuration.yaml, sensors.yaml, groups.yaml and binary_sensors.yaml. The Gardena_Smart.py file is under /config/custom_components/sensor:

Error loading custom_components.sensor.gardena_smart. Make sure all dependencies are installed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/src/app/homeassistant/loader.py”, line 86, in get_component
module = importlib.import_module(path)
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/importlib/init.py”, line 126, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File “”, line 994, in _gcd_import
File “”, line 971, in _find_and_load
File “”, line 955, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File “”, line 665, in _load_unlocked
File “”, line 678, in exec_module
File “”, line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
File “/config/custom_components/sensor/gardena_smart.py”, line 13, in
from deps.gardena_smart import *
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘deps.gardena_smart’

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I was able to get it installed by copying the files from the Ubuntu host to the Docker.
But what happens next time Home Assistant gets upgraded? Do I need to do this each time?

I still cant get this to work sadly. I get an error on my binary_sensors.yaml. There also seems to be an error with the sensors.yaml example. Its not supposed to start with “r platform” I assume?

Really wanna get this integrated, but Im feeling half lost :smile:

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Progress! Under States I can see data from the Gardena Smart Sileno City 500 I have. So its clearly a problem with presenting the data to HA:
sensor.pikachu “ok_cutting” name: Pikachu
dev_state: ok
last_online: 2018-05-15T13:14:40.032000+02:00
battery_level: 53
charging_satus: false
radio_quality: 70
radio_status: good
radio_connection_status: status_device_alive
in_manual_mode: false
status: ok_cutting
error: no_message
error_time: 1970-01-01T01:00:00+01:00
last_error_msg: no_message
next_source_for_start: no_source
next_start: 1969-12-31T23:00:00+01:00
cutting_time: 17
charge_cycles: 15
collisions: 590
running_time: 17
unit_of_measurement:
friendly_name: Pikachu

Can you doublecheck the Sensors/Binary_Sensors.yaml to see if theres anything that could be related to this?
Thanks for an awesome job so far :slight_smile:

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I have updated sensors.yaml, correcting the “r”

I have modified the script to use pypi, so that it automatically pulls the update. You may need to delete it from deps folder first.

wrt your sensor and binary_sensor it is hard to say without seeing the error message. It seems that you are getting all the parameters so it is a home assistant configuration that is incorrect.

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I think Ive found the error. I let my kids give the robot a new name. They wanted to call it Pikachu, so I changed it in the Gardena app. Maybe thats why the sensors/binary_sensors doesnt seem to catch it?

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Yep! I renamed it back to Sileno in the Gardena app, and now the entire Sileno Group works flawlessly. I still get an error on the binary_sensors.yaml file tho…

This is the entire file:

  • platform: template
    sensors:
    sileno_charging:
    friendly_name: “Sileno charging”
    device_class: plug
    value_template: “{{ states.sensor.sileno.attributes.charging_status }}”
    sileno_manual_mode:
    friendly_name: “Sileno in manual mode”
    value_template: “{{ states.sensor.sileno.attributes.in_manual_mode }}”

and then I added this to my configuration.yaml:
binary_sensors: !include binary_sensors.yaml

EDIT: Thanks to assistance from Ludeeus on Discord, I had an error in the configuration.yaml file.
Its supposed to be binary_sensor, not binary_sensors:

Now its integrated! Thank you so much and hope you continue development of this module :slight_smile:

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Hey, after updating to 0.72 it seems this has stopped working. Got any idea what can have caused this?

2018-06-25 23:00:25 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.sensor] Error while setting up platform gardena_smart,
Traceback (most recent call last):,
File “/usr/src/app/homeassistant/helpers/entity_platform.py”, line 129, in _async_setup_platform,
SLOW_SETUP_MAX_WAIT, loop=hass.loop),
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/asyncio/tasks.py”, line 358, in wait_for,
return fut.result(),
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/concurrent/futures/thread.py”, line 56, in run,
File “/config/custom_components/sensor/gardena_smart.py”, line 39, in setup_platform,
add_devices([gardena_smart(username, password, location_id, device_id)]),
File “/config/custom_components/sensor/gardena_smart.py”, line 59, in init,
self.update(),
File “/usr/src/app/homeassistant/util/init.py”, line 319, in wrapper,
result = method(*args, **kwargs),
File “/config/custom_components/sensor/gardena_smart.py”, line 91, in update,
mower_info = self.gardena.get_mower_info(self.gardena.get_devices_in_catagory(‘mower’)[0]),
mower_info[‘error’] = self.get_mower_error(id)[0],
File “/config/deps/gardena_smart/init.py”, line 107, in get_mower_info,
File “/config/deps/gardena_smart/init.py”, line 80, in get_mower_error,
IndexError: list index out of range,
return (error[2][‘value’], error[7][‘value’]),
2018-06-25 23:00:26 ERROR (SyncWorker_0) [homeassistant.components.coinbase] Authentication error connecting to coinbase: APIError(id=authentication_error): request timestamp expired,
2018-06-25 23:00:28 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Error during setup of component arlo,
2018-06-25 23:00:26 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Setup failed for coinbase: Component failed to initialize.,
File “/usr/src/app/homeassistant/setup.py”, line 146, in _async_setup_component,
component.setup, hass, processed_config) # type: ignore,
File “/usr/src/app/homeassistant/components/arlo.py”, line 48, in setup,
result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs),
conf = config[DOMAIN]

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Hi MortenB,

actually, it it’s not 0.72 causing the problem but the “numbering/order” of the JSON response abilities from gardena seems to have changed since you first used rcastbergs gardena integration.

Therefore, a slightly adapted code fragment for __init__py:

def get_mower_name(self, id):
    return self.device_info[id]['name']
def get_mower_device_state(self, id):
    return self.device_info[id]['device_state']
def get_mower_last_online(self, id):
    return self.device_info[id]['abilities'][0]['properties'][5]['value']
def get_mower_battery_level(self, id):
    return self.device_info[id]['abilities'][1]['properties'][0]['value']
def get_mower_charging_status(self, id):
    return self.device_info[id]['abilities'][1]['properties'][1]['value']
def get_mower_radio_quality(self, id):
    return self.device_info[id]['abilities'][2]['properties'][0]['value']
def get_mower_radio_status(self, id):
    return self.device_info[id]['abilities'][2]['properties'][2]['value']
def get_mower_radio_connection_status(self, id):
    return self.device_info[id]['abilities'][2]['properties'][1]['value']
def get_mower_manual_mode(self, id):
    return self.device_info[id]['abilities'][4]['properties'][0]['value']
def get_mower_status(self, id):
    return self.device_info[id]['abilities'][4]['properties'][1]['value']
def get_mower_error(self, id):
    """Return error and last ts"""
    error = self.device_info[id]['abilities'][4]['properties']
    return (error[2]['value'], error[7]['timestamp'])
def get_mower_last_error(self, id):
    return self.device_info[id]['abilities'][4]['properties'][3]['value']
def get_mower_next_source_start(self, id):
    return self.device_info[id]['abilities'][4]['properties'][4]['value']
def get_mower_next_start(self, id):
    return self.device_info[id]['abilities'][4]['properties'][5]['timestamp']
def get_mower_cutting_time(self, id):
    return self.device_info[id]['abilities'][5]['properties'][0]['value']
def get_mower_charging_cycles(self, id):
    return self.device_info[id]['abilities'][5]['properties'][1]['value']
def get_mower_collisions(self, id):
    return self.device_info[id]['abilities'][5]['properties'][2]['value']
def get_mower_running_time(self, id):
    return self.device_info[id]['abilities'][5]['properties'][3]['value']

@rcastberg: thank you for your integration so far!

Cheers,
Markus

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Thanks! That fixed my issue :slight_smile: Any plans to expand this integration?

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Yes, but my time is veeeery limited, I just moved with my family :slight_smile: