Yea i also would just like to say thanks to Sebr
I was standing in home depot seen this orbit, googled ‘orbit bhyve homeassistant’
Found the github, made purchase. Been working great for a year.
SteveA you dont need to worry about that script.
There are others that have posted complete watering / garden scripts/automatons
I could also post what I use, but it will take me some time to organize it into a post-able format.
let me know if you need it.
Hi, I would like to see an example of what can be done with automation/scripting.
I have just started tinkering with this and have six b-hyve hose timers imported into HA that water zones of my yard. I also have the bhyve_next_watering script set up and I see output from it in the debug logging.
I am just not sure what is possible to do as a next step. I was hoping to be able to define one or more zone watering sequences that I could trigger either manually/scheduled or both. And hopefully it would be easier/better than having to do everything in the Orbit app.
It seems like there is good info here and I will get something together soon enough.
@fiftys any new information is always welcome. I am 2 weeks in on HASS and so far it has been a great discovery. The community is tops and I am addicted.
Im working on it.
Hi, I have been messing around with this integration for about a week and have a couple of questions to see if my use case is something I can figure out with the help of H-A.
My setup:
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/integration-with-orbit-b-hyve-irrigation-system/39688/215
Once I made each program/zone smart watering only, the next watering script comes up with ‘None’ as a next watering time. So not sure if I should be using a manual program triggers in the bhyve app in order for that to work.
So my two main questions:
1: Has anyone done something based on a manual action in H-A that would have each zone trigger one at a time, in succession, for a set period of time? I would like to be able to trigger an activity that would fire each zone one at a time for 20 min each.
2: Should I be using only Smart Programs/Zones in ther B-hyve settings? I am concerned that the next_watering calculations seem to be several days into the future based on the time stamps that are being produced.
Sorry about the rookie-level questions. I have done a fair amount of scanning of this thread to pick up what I can. Would really like to have a combination of smart watering with the ability to manually trigger a sequential watering of all zones at any time.
This is really cool stuff. Thanks for providing this integration and the community’s support.
Patrick
Alright, sorry it took so long. My setup is pretty much a confusing mess.
This post will probably be no different. Im 100% certain ill miss some stuff, and to be honest this might not be very new user friendly. Sorry about that. You dont have to use this card like mine. If you do you will need some extra cards installed, multiple-entity-row, button-card. cardmod. Or you can just pick and pull the enitites into a reguar entities card.
entities:
- entity: switch.sprinklers_zone
name: Sprinkler Valve
secondary_info: last-changed
- entity: switch.backyard_light
name: Backyard Light
secondary_info: last-changed
- entity: binary_sensor.zone_1_day_active
icon: 'mdi:sprinkler-variant'
- type: divider
- entities:
- input_number.zone_1_run_time
entity: sensor.zone_1_time_remaining
icon: 'mdi:clock'
name: Duration
secondary_info: last-changed
state_color: true
state_header: Remaining
type: 'custom:multiple-entity-row'
- entities:
- entity: input_datetime.zone_1_am_on_time
name: On Time
- entity: automation.irrigation_zone_1_am
name: Active
entity: automation.irrigation_zone_1_am
name: AM
state_color: true
toggle: true
type: 'custom:multiple-entity-row'
- entities:
- entity: input_datetime.zone_1_pm_on_time
name: On Time
- entity: automation.irrigation_zone_1_pm
name: Active
entity: automation.irrigation_zone_1_pm
name: PM
state_color: true
toggle: true
type: 'custom:multiple-entity-row'
- entities:
- color: var(--primary-color)
color_type: icon
entity: input_boolean.zone_1_mon
icon: 'mdi:roman-numeral-1'
name: Mon
tap_action:
action: toggle
type: 'custom:button-card'
- color: var(--primary-color)
color_type: icon
entity: input_boolean.zone_1_tue
icon: 'mdi:roman-numeral-2'
name: Tue
state:
- spin: false
value: 'on'
width: 35px
tap_action:
action: toggle
type: 'custom:button-card'
- color: var(--primary-color)
color_type: icon
entity: input_boolean.zone_1_wed
icon: 'mdi:roman-numeral-3'
name: Wed
tap_action:
action: toggle
type: 'custom:button-card'
- color: var(--primary-color)
color_type: icon
entity: input_boolean.zone_1_thu
icon: 'mdi:roman-numeral-4'
name: Thu
tap_action:
action: toggle
type: 'custom:button-card'
- color: var(--primary-color)
color_type: icon
entity: input_boolean.zone_1_fri
icon: 'mdi:roman-numeral-5'
name: Fri
tap_action:
action: toggle
type: 'custom:button-card'
- color: var(--primary-color)
color_type: icon
entity: input_boolean.zone_1_sat
icon: 'mdi:roman-numeral-6'
name: Sat
tap_action:
action: toggle
type: 'custom:button-card'
- color: var(--primary-color)
color_type: icon
entity: input_boolean.zone_1_sun
icon: 'mdi:roman-numeral-7'
name: Sun
tap_action:
action: toggle
type: 'custom:button-card'
entity: binary_sensor.zone_1_day_active
icon: 'mdi:calendar-week'
name: Days
state_header: Active
type: 'custom:multiple-entity-row'
show_header_toggle: false
style: |
ha-card {
border: solid 2px var(--primary-color);
border-radius: 70px;
box-shadow: none;
}
title: South Lawn
type: entities
Here is what you will need.
make this binary_sensor with these input_boolean helpers.
- platform: template
sensors:
zone_1_day_active:
friendly_name: Irrigation Day Active
value_template: >-
{{ ( is_state('input_boolean.zone_1_mon', 'on') and now().weekday() == 0 )
or ( is_state('input_boolean.zone_1_tue', 'on') and now().weekday() == 1 )
or ( is_state('input_boolean.zone_1_wed', 'on') and now().weekday() == 2 )
or ( is_state('input_boolean.zone_1_thu', 'on') and now().weekday() == 3 )
or ( is_state('input_boolean.zone_1_fri', 'on') and now().weekday() == 4 )
or ( is_state('input_boolean.zone_1_sat', 'on') and now().weekday() == 5 )
or ( is_state('input_boolean.zone_1_sun', 'on') and now().weekday() == 6 ) }}
Input_datetime helpers
zone_1_am_on_time:
name: AM On Time
has_date: false
has_time: true
zone_1_pm_on_time:
name: PM On Time
has_date: false
has_time: true
input_number helpers
zone_1_run_time:
name: Run Time
min: 1
max: 20
step: 1
unit_of_measurement: min
icon: mdi:clock
sensors:
- platform: template
sensors:
zone_1_time_remaining:
friendly_name: "Time Remaining"
value_template: >
{% set x = states('sensor.time') %}
{% if is_state('switch.sprinklers_zone', 'on') %}
{{ [ (states('input_number.zone_1_run_time') | float - (as_timestamp(now()) - as_timestamp(states.switch.sprinklers_zone.last_changed)) / 60) | round(0) ,0 ] | max }}
{% else %}
0
{% endif %}
unit_of_measurement: "min"
automations:
- id: irrigation_zone_1_am
alias: Irrigation Zone 1 AM
trigger:
- platform: template
value_template: '{{ states("sensor.time") == states("input_datetime.zone_1_am_on_time").rsplit(":",1)[0]
}}'
condition:
- condition: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.zone_1_day_active
state: 'on'
action:
- service: switch.turn_on
entity_id: switch.sprinklers_zone
mode: single
- id: irrigation_zone_1_pm
alias: Irrigation Zone 1 PM
trigger:
- platform: template
value_template: '{{ states("sensor.time") == states("input_datetime.zone_1_pm_on_time").rsplit(":",1)[0]
}}'
condition:
- condition: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.zone_1_day_active
state: 'on'
action:
- service: switch.turn_on
entity_id: switch.sprinklers_zone
mode: single
- id: irrigation_zone_1_off
alias: Irrigation Zone 1 Off
trigger:
- platform: numeric_state
entity_id: sensor.zone_1_time_remaining
below: '1'
- platform: state
entity_id: switch.sprinklers_zone
to: 'on'
for: 0:15:00
condition:
- condition: state
entity_id: switch.sprinklers_zone
state: 'on'
action:
- service: switch.turn_off
entity_id: switch.sprinklers_zone
initial_state: true
mode: single
Might have missed soemthing. I have two setups but mainly use this.
Ill gather the second more elaborate setup soon. Sorry this took so long. Life, busy, etc.
also I didnt write these (except for the card layout). I found them on this forum and github. so credit goes to those people.
another thing, I have all the auto stuff and smart stuff turned off in the b-hyve app. it says ‘these zones are never set to water’: 1,2,3’ and ‘you have no programs scheduled’ everything is running off of the homeassistant automations. I did have to set the manual run time in the app, to a few mins higher(20min) than any of my automations will ever run (15min)
Okay I just noticed that I screwed up the coding for the card. Fixed it in the post.
I had this forum open for nearly a week randomly adding to it… messed it up as i knew i would.
Should be fixed though for a direct copy/paste as long as you have those custom cards installed.
Took me a while, but I have just about got this working. Got the card fully displaying for one of my zones. Thanks so much for posting! It is definitely helping me learn my way around H-A.
No problem. Glad it could help.
Hello,
I started using this integration but time to time the entities tracking history getting unavailable. Is there a trick I missed?
I have exactly the same problem since months. After a restart the sensor is available for one day in best case. I developed my own water usage counter and ignore the history sensor
I’m interested in setting up something similar, could you give some details on how you did it? I’m not sure if using the integration integration would work or not for example.
Could you provide us with your solution/code?
Ok,
create a variable (hass-variable integration):
last_water_consumption:
value: 0
restore: true
name: "Letzter Wasserverbrauch"
attributes:
minutes: 0
unit_of_measurement: "l"
per_m2: 0
total_consumption: 0
````
this is my automation when the irrigation starts:
````
- id: "151b"
alias: "Store Water Consumption when starting"
initial_state: true
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: switch.zone_1_zone
to: "on"
action:
- service: variable.set_variable
data:
variable: last_water_consumption
value: "0"
attributes:
minutes: "0"
per_m2: "0"
total_consumption: "0"
- alias: "Count liters every minute"
repeat:
sequence:
- delay:
minutes: 1
- service: variable.set_variable
data:
variable: last_water_consumption
# bHyve calculated 6,3 l per minute. I reduce the value as some water goes left and right
value: "6.1"
attributes:
minutes: "{{ state_attr('variable.last_water_consumption','minutes')|int + 1 }}"
per_m2: "0.51"
total_consumption: "{{ state_attr('variable.last_water_consumption','total_consumption')|float + 6.1 }}"
until:
- condition: state
entity_id: switch.zone_1_zone
state: "off"
````
during the night, I store the values into another one in order to have yesterdays irrigation.
This variable is recorded, so I have a 7 days daily water history
As you can see, I do that with rain totals as well.
````
- id: "20017"
alias: "Store Raintotal"
initial_state: true
trigger:
- platform: time
at: "23:59:15"
action:
- service: variable.set_variable
data:
variable: last_rain_total_at_night
value_template: "{{ states('variable.last_rs_garten_sum_rain_24') }}"
- service: variable.set_variable
data:
variable: last_irrigation_total_at_night
value: "{{ states('sensor.daily_total_watering') }}"
- service: script.turn_on
entity_id: script.add_log
data:
variables:
name: "Sicherung Bewässerung"
message: "rain: {{ states('sensor.netatmo_imeerbus121_wohnzimmer_rs_garten_rain_today') }} and water: {{ states('sensor.daily_total_watering') }} successful stored"
````
Important to know: I start the irrigation only once a day. In other cases you have to separate the variables initialization and do it after you saved the daily total.i have 2 Bhyve valves i can see the first valve in the entities (switch.frount). The other Valve all the other property show up under the entities but not (swich.garden) my second valve. Can anyone help me or tell me what i might have done wrong?
config
switch:
platform: bhyve
sensor:
bhyve:
username: ########
password: ************
Make sure it’s connected to the wifi hub - if you are connected with your phone via bluetooth it won’t be usable with the HA integration
Rename it in the bhyve app then restart HA
I have it set as “Garden” in app all of the other entities are Garden except “switch.zone”.
am i looking at the wrong thing?
You renamed the device. You need to rename the Zone 
. Welcome to the most confusing app ever
