Hi everyone! I’m a big fan of Hass.Agent. It’s such a brilliant solution and very well done. I have a question: whenever I restart HA, some sensors that take longer to update show up as unknown. I know this has something to do with MQTT and flags, but is there a way to manually request a sync from HA using a startup automation? I appreciate your help!
See my question earlier in the discussion and related replies and solution.
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Ha! Forgot about that refresh sensors button haha Thanks!
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I wish I was, as I would help. I hope someone out there can chip in and lend you a hand. Thank you for all your hard work on this fantastic project.
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Thanks for the great software!
Can anybody help me with the following?
I have succesfully created the media player pc via hass agent.
Now I want to use the service Google Assistant SDK: Send text command and relay the response to the pc media player. Example: tell me a joke
Using the service text to speech works perfectly to send typed in words and it plays it on the pc, but the service Google Assistant SDK: Send text command stays quiet. Even when audio is playing it is not interrupted. Checking the logs shows the response, the joke, but it isn’t being transferred to the media player pc. If I choose a “real” media player casting device like an Lenovo smart clock, the joke does play.
Any idea how to fix this?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
I have HASS.Agent installed; however, under Configuration > Satellite Service it reads status: Not Installed. Clicking “Start Service” throws an exception.
Any advice?
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System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (1060): The specified service does not exist as an installed service.
HASS.Agent is just awesome, and I’m loving using it - thanks for all the hard work!
One quick question: for some reason in the latest version of Home Assistant (well, that’s the only thing I can see that I’ve changed), the WebcamActive sensor on my Windows 10 PC is constantly on. Even when it’s not in use.
Is there something I can do to check or debug why this is?
Hi all,
I’ve installed this on 3 computers in the house, but on one of them, the media player entity in Ha has not been created, and the device is not detected by the agent. The MQTT device and sensor entities have been created, its only the media player that is not detected/created. Anyone else had this? I’ve obviously removed and reinstalled the app on the computer. The computer that isn’t working is windows 10 pro, and the working ones are win 11 and win 10 pro.
Update: I’ve installed the agent on a 4th computer in the house, another Win 10 Pro, and the media player has not been set up in HA, and the Agent integration is not detecting the new device. The MQTT device and sensors have been set up in HA as expected, and the media player option has been enabled on the computer.
Update 2: I added another Win 11 computer, which also did not appear as a media player. I removed the integration from HA and HACS, then restarted HA, and readded the integration. when I restarted HA, all the computers were discovered and added as media players.
Thanks for the great work, this is super helpful around the house.
Hi. I just installed HASS.Agent and I have a couple of questions, please.
I am trying to grab some information about VMs on my PC running Microsoft Hyper-V. To start, I’d just like to see the results of a get-vm command in Home Assistant. I am trying to set up a powershell sensor in HASS.Agent for this.
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This command requires elevation. Only administrators can run it. But even if my user is administrator, I get an error. I’m sure others have solved this problem before: how to run the powershell sensor command as admin?
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When I set up the sensor with a powershell command, my PC goes crazy with a blue window popping up and disappearing every second! How do I make this run without any sort of window? It should be a background command…
Thanks in advance for any help!
Alternatively, this whould also be possible with WMI.
This works in Powershell as admin:
Get-WmiObject -Class Msvm_ComputerSystem -Namespace "root\virtualization\v2"
I see a list of my Hyper-V VMs.
But this does not work as a WMI sensor in HASS.Agent:
In the past I was looking to run a powershell command and I don’t think they will be run using elevated admin permissions, even if the account used has them. I think it might also actually say that in the box where you configure the command to be run (if I remember correctly).
Thanks. The powershell sensor is a bit useless with these limitations, but I understand, sometimes these things are just not possible.
The WMI route looks more promising.
After fixing a detail with my WMI, I am now able to get a result from this:
select ElementName from Msvm_ComputerSystem
I get a single string with the name of my first VM.
How can I get the other elements in the collection? I have 3 VMs, and the WMI command, if I run it from command-line, shows all of them…
Can WMI queries return multiple values to the sensor?
@SamKr I’m starting to think this is not a bug, just a feature that has not been developed yet. So allow me to make a feature request - one that I hope will relatively easy to implement but that might have an excellent return in terms of value delivered.
Basically, allow any WMI query to return complex data, just iterate through it recursively and return a JSON response. Home assistant is good enough to evaluate JSON responses, so it’s easy to make use of that data on HA side.
There’s so much stuff that can be obtained from WMI that this would make HASS.Agent really powerful. I think I could build my whole Hyper-V monitoring system just from that.
Thanks in advance!
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For anyone who is having the same issue, expose the webcamprocess sensor to see what is hogging the webcam. In my case, it was an old instance of Microsoft Teams. Once I opened that and closed it again, it released the camera. 
I use this mainly to watch for my PC session state, and when HA is running, it properly reacts to session lock and unlock. However, if I reboot HA during an unlocked session, the session in HA is reported as ‘Unknown’. This status is new.
A) I notice HASS.Agent still properly reports the session as ‘Unlocked’.
B) I have the below script set as a Dashboard action. It properly changes the session to ‘Unlocked’. However, the session gets changed back to ‘Unknown’ a minute later w/o any interaction. I don’t understand.
service: python_script.set_state
data_template:
entity_id: sensor.pc1_sessionstate
state: Unlocked
Has anyone else come across this issue.
When enabling notifications in the HASS agent UI, the following error pops up in the logs:
2023-05-22 11:37:19.101 +01:00 [FTL] [NOTIFIER] Error while initializing: Failed initializing notifications
System.InvalidOperationException: Failed initializing notifications
---> System.IO.IOException: Cannot create a stable subkey under a volatile parent key.
at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.Win32Error(Int32 errorCode, String str)
at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.CreateSubKeyInternalCore(String subkey, RegistryKeyPermissionCheck permissionCheck, RegistryOptions registryOptions)
at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.CreateSubKey(String subkey, RegistryKeyPermissionCheck permissionCheck, RegistryOptions registryOptions)
at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.CreateSubKey(String subkey)
at Microsoft.Toolkit.Uwp.Notifications.ToastNotificationManagerCompat.Initialize()
at Microsoft.Toolkit.Uwp.Notifications.ToastNotificationManagerCompat..cctor()
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Microsoft.Toolkit.Uwp.Notifications.ToastNotificationManagerCompat.CreateToastNotifier()
at HASS.Agent.Managers.NotificationManager.Initialize()
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Can anyone please help with sensor value rounding?
With these:
# Disks Free
# Barad-dur
sys_disk:
friendly_name: 'System Disk'
value_template: "{{ state_attr('sensor.barad_dur_storage_c', 'AvailableSpaceMB') | float(0) }}"
unit_of_measurement: GB
data_disk:
friendly_name: 'Data Disk'
value_template: "{{ state_attr('sensor.barad_dur_storage_d', 'AvailableSpaceMB') | float(0) }}"
unit_of_measurement: GB
# York-II
nas_disk:
friendly_name: 'Battletech'
value_template: "{{ state_attr('sensor.york_ii_storage_c', 'AvailableSpaceMB') | float(0) }}"
unit_of_measurement: GB
hass_disk:
friendly_name: 'Media'
value_template: "{{ state_attr('sensor.york_ii_storage_e', 'AvailableSpaceMB') | float(0) }}"
unit_of_measurement: GB
I get values in MB with 3 digits after point, but i want GB and TB (for a Media drive). | round(0) did not work. I mean, this digits should look like 311.1 GB for System, etc.
Also, please help with power status (want it yellow if system powered, so far unable to get that)
Btw, great app. Way better than IOTLink.
I think you should’ve created a new topic for this, as it has nothing to do with Hass.Agent itself.
I am curious if I don’t see CPU temperatures, power consumption, and fan speed sensors builtin into HASS.Agent (see screenshot below), I would have to also install LibreHardwareMonitor and access this data via its WMI classes?
