Super cool - can I ask what youāre using for the garden sensors? Be interested in doing something for our veggie patch (and possibly automate basic irrigation) but itās a wee way from the house/router/hubs.
@garethw I am using Xiaomi Mi Flora Plant Sensor for plant sensor. I then use a sonoff LV to control a 12v solenoid for garden irrigation. I am doing some landscaping atm so this system is actually moving to a solar panel which will power the irrigation and the gate sensor and a weather station. Details of my current system are in my github you just have to keep scrolling I will post up the new garden project once completed.
This is the best HA config layout Iāve come across in the 2+ years Iāve been using HA! Thanks for sharing!
Two questions if I may:
Where do you set friendly names for your Xiaomi sensors please? For example, I canāt find any custom names for sensor.staircase_motion, so it must be the entity name discovered by HA. Do you set this in the Xiaomi Gateways, and if so how? I have around 50 Xiaomi sensors which all present themselves with their alphanumeric ID which is a pain. Iāve partially moved to zigbee2mqtt because I can do friendly names, but itās still early days.
EDIT - found where you use customise for the sensors: https://github.com/JamesMcCarthy79/Home-Assistant-Config/blob/65c329cfe5840c42e6695165f7f37d43bf3d05b6/config/packages/alarm_system/alarm_system.yaml
How do you spread the load over 3 raspberry Piās? Is there a tutorial link you followed please?
@jarrah Glad you found it, I have things hidden away in packages everywhere you can also just click on the entity in states and change the friendly name in there. Click on it select the settings cog and edit from there
As for multiple instances there are a few ways to go about it you could use the mqtt statestream and mqtt eventstream I went down this route to start with as my main one was really slow to respond to automations but this didnāt really speed things up for me so I use anything involved in an automation on a second instance and use node-red to perform the automations, as these happen in the background and mostly are either mqtt or xiaomi they replicate easy and are reflected in the UI which runs of the main instance. Somethings I need to use eventstream and statestream for to keep the 2 insync but node-red is awesome and can talk to all 3 instances whilst sitting remotely.
Hmmā¦ I donāt get any āsettings cogā when I click on either the entity name or the pop out icon.
Any idea why not?
Clicking the entity name just populates the section at the top of the screen so I can edit and set states.
Clicking on the pop out icon gives me the same āhistoryā type pop out I get from the main UI.