Node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket

Kermit · March 29, 2019, 6:35pm

At this point I don’t have to many ideas. I’m assume both docker containers are running the same machine so them losing a connection to each other really isn’t possible.

Does rode-red itself seem unresponsive when this happens or just the HA nodes? If you try and run a call-service node when it’s in this state does it go through? Same with a get-template node?

[{"id":"9e66f282.eef6","type":"inject","z":"ffbd7f06.4a014","name":"","topic":"","payload":"","payloadType":"date","repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"x":428,"y":848,"wires":[["4c27dcd.649ff24"]]},{"id":"4c27dcd.649ff24","type":"api-call-service","z":"ffbd7f06.4a014","name":"turn on light","server":"2dad33ee.42bf5c","service_domain":"light","service":"toggle","data":"{\"entity_id\":\"light.light1\"}","mergecontext":"","output_location":"","output_location_type":"none","x":598,"y":848,"wires":[["5e7c158a.53330c"]]},{"id":"5e7c158a.53330c","type":"debug","z":"ffbd7f06.4a014","name":"","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"false","x":774,"y":848,"wires":[]},{"id":"7d3de24f.8a109c","type":"inject","z":"ffbd7f06.4a014","name":"","topic":"","payload":"","payloadType":"date","repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"x":428,"y":896,"wires":[["715374a4.b3d23c"]]},{"id":"715374a4.b3d23c","type":"api-render-template","z":"ffbd7f06.4a014","name":"sun state","server":"2dad33ee.42bf5c","template":"{{states.sun.sun.state}}","x":588,"y":896,"wires":[["ee4fbbc4.540648"]]},{"id":"ee4fbbc4.540648","type":"debug","z":"ffbd7f06.4a014","name":"","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"false","x":774,"y":896,"wires":[]}]

Warstomper · March 30, 2019, 11:13am

Well, it was a networking issue in the end. I am running the HA docker in “host” networking, while the NodeRed docker was running in Bridge. I did some more trial and erroring, and set the Node-Red docker to Host networking as well, this seems to have fixed the problem, and everything stays connected(thus far, 12 hours later… )

Thanks for helping me out though!

rsuplido · March 31, 2019, 7:42pm

Similar thing happened to me as well. HA and NR are both on bridge. The IP I used for HA on NR however was the docker 17.n.n.n IP. It would work for a few minutes and then would get ‘not connected’ errors for the same flow. I then changed the HA IP in NR to use host:8123 and it worked better. Weird thing is it only happened on entities connected via mqtt.

Kermit · April 4, 2019, 3:16am

New Release v0.10.1

Bug Fixes

api: Fix for saving locationType (bd20bfa)
call-service: Fix for having undefined output location and type (3a0d8b0)
wait-until: fixed scope for setContextValue (3fdfa27)

Features

api: Allows input to set/override config values (7296cd2), closes #100
Able to reference entity in comparators (ece176b)
api: Output type added to http api: binary, json,txt (9305c7d)
events-all: Added states_loaded and services_loaded (b8097b8)
events-all: Will includes HA client events (ccf9fbc), closes #75
get-entities: Added total count of entities as an output option (3061151)
render-template: Added custom outputs (66d504d)

Full Changelog

For those that enjoy my work.

Juggels · April 4, 2019, 12:06pm

Hi @Kermit, thanks a lot for your great work! Could you maybe explain a little bit how to use the states_added event? Because I added states_loaded to the Event Type field of an events: all node, but I cannot get it to work. The node doesn’t seem to filter and spits out all events

Kermit · April 5, 2019, 1:45am

A new event_type, home_assistant_client, was added for client events, the node-red home assistant module, these include:

connecting - when trying to connect to HA
connected - after the authorization has been accepted
disconnected - when the socket stops attempting to connect or disconnected after having been connected
error - when a disconnect happens of the websocket with an error
states_loaded - the first time all states are loaded from HA
services_loaded - the first time all services are loaded from HA

[{"id":"959319c4.b4ed08","type":"server-events","z":"5eb3594f.d294b8","name":"","server":"ef067c6f.620e6","event_type":"home_assistant_client","x":328,"y":704,"wires":[["ced91c7f.a3e17"]]},{"id":"ced91c7f.a3e17","type":"debug","z":"5eb3594f.d294b8","name":"","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"false","x":546,"y":704,"wires":[]}]

Juggels · April 5, 2019, 5:09am

Thank you so much! I must have completely missed that somehow Got it up and running now perfectly!

HITChris · April 5, 2019, 7:24pm

Thumbs up on making the template node’s outputs customizable!

I’m having an issue with the call-service node where, even though the Service is hard-coded (‘turn off’), it seems to be inheriting payload.service (e.g. from a previous call-service execution). Is there any chance this could be a bug with the call-service node implementation, wherein it prioritizes the inheritance of payload.service over a hardcoded Service value?

The issue I’m running into -

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Kermit · April 5, 2019, 10:16pm

Overwriting “hard-coded” config values of a node is sort of a node-red paradigm. In the “Turn Garage Lights On” call-service node set the Output Location to something other than msg.payload or None if you don’t really care about the data.

woody4165 · April 7, 2019, 2:52pm

Hi @Kermit ant thanks for adding new features to this node!

states_loaded and services_loaded will not be shown after each restart, but only the first time HA will start from a new installation, right?

Thanks

nirkat · April 7, 2019, 3:58pm

@Kermit Hi,

Love the addon, have a really big bug/feature request (haha, unsure which one it is),
“Current_State” node cannot get entity_id from msg.payload and has to be hardcoded (getting ‘value cannot be empty’ error if I leave it empty, and putting {{payload}} or msg.payload doesn’t work)

is there any way to push the entity_id from the payload?

thanks

Kermit · April 7, 2019, 4:39pm

As version 0.10.2 states_loaded and services_loaded will fire each time a successful connection is made to Home Assistant. When a connection is made the module requests all states and services from HA and when it has receives them it will fire the events.

Kermit · April 7, 2019, 4:42pm

If you leave the entity id field empty and pass in msg.payload.entity_id this should work.

[{"id":"5a4d366e.cf57f8","type":"api-current-state","z":"5eb3594f.d294b8","name":"","server":"ef067c6f.620e6","outputs":1,"halt_if":"","halt_if_type":"str","halt_if_compare":"is","override_topic":false,"entity_id":"","state_type":"str","state_location":"payload","override_payload":"msg","entity_location":"data","override_data":"msg","x":432,"y":480,"wires":[["52d2042f.08a0ac"]]},{"id":"1fb2a9e6.981176","type":"inject","z":"5eb3594f.d294b8","name":"","topic":"","payload":"{\"entity_id\": \"sun.sun\"}","payloadType":"json","repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"x":274,"y":480,"wires":[["5a4d366e.cf57f8"]]},{"id":"52d2042f.08a0ac","type":"debug","z":"5eb3594f.d294b8","name":"","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"false","x":614,"y":480,"wires":[]}]

woody4165 · April 7, 2019, 4:48pm

@Kermit I’was only getting the connected state and no loaded ones.

I just noticed the new upgrade to 0.10.2 and now it’s working! Thanks

nirkat · April 7, 2019, 9:50pm

@Kermit
Its not working for me, I’m getting the entity_id from a “current_state” before this one, like this:

Summary

[{
“id”: “8741c85.f218d38”,
“type”: “tab”,
“label”: “Remove Head Test”,
“disabled”: false,
“info”: “”
},
{
“id”: “fff8a14a.6627a”,
“type”: “inject”,
“z”: “8741c85.f218d38”,
“name”: “”,
“topic”: “”,
“payload”: “”,
“payloadType”: “date”,
“repeat”: “”,
“crontab”: “”,
“once”: false,
“onceDelay”: 0.1,
“x”: 93.53969192504883,
“y”: 116.79364013671875,
“wires”: [
[
“51930236.4de0fc”
]
]
},
{
“id”: “bd5a42d9.89781”,
“type”: “debug”,
“z”: “8741c85.f218d38”,
“name”: “”,
“active”: true,
“tosidebar”: true,
“console”: false,
“tostatus”: false,
“complete”: “payload”,
“targetType”: “msg”,
“x”: 1121.71435546875,
“y”: 170.42857360839844,
“wires”:
},
{
“id”: “51930236.4de0fc”,
“type”: “api-current-state”,
“z”: “8741c85.f218d38”,
“name”: “”,
“server”: “2757cc6a.31a344”,
“outputs”: 1,
“halt_if”: “”,
“halt_if_type”: “str”,
“halt_if_compare”: “is”,
“override_topic”: false,
“entity_id”: “input_text.currenthead”,
“state_type”: “str”,
“state_location”: “payload”,
“override_payload”: “msg”,
“entity_location”: “data”,
“override_data”: “msg”,
“x”: 329,
“y”: 204,
“wires”: [
[
“25efe6a0.75759a”
]
]
},
{
“id”: “bf79784b.05e2f8”,
“type”: “api-current-state”,
“z”: “8741c85.f218d38”,
“name”: “”,
“server”: “2757cc6a.31a344”,
“outputs”: 1,
“halt_if”: “”,
“halt_if_type”: “str”,
“halt_if_compare”: “is”,
“override_topic”: false,
“entity_id”: “”,
“state_type”: “str”,
“state_location”: “payload”,
“override_payload”: “msg”,
“entity_location”: “data”,
“override_data”: “msg”,
“x”: 841,
“y”: 234,
“wires”: [
[
“bd5a42d9.89781”
]
]
},
{
“id”: “25efe6a0.75759a”,
“type”: “function”,
“z”: “8741c85.f218d38”,
“name”: “”,
“func”: “var entity_id = msg.payload;\nmsg.payload = "{\"entity_id\":\"input_text."+entity_id+"\"}";\nreturn msg;”,
“outputs”: 1,
“noerr”: 0,
“x”: 595.5,
“y”: 215,
“wires”: [
[
“bf79784b.05e2f8”,
“9ee3fb1b.5ccdb8”
]
]
},
{
“id”: “9ee3fb1b.5ccdb8”,
“type”: “debug”,
“z”: “8741c85.f218d38”,
“name”: “”,
“active”: true,
“tosidebar”: true,
“console”: false,
“tostatus”: false,
“complete”: “false”,
“x”: 794.5,
“y”: 132,
“wires”:
},
{
“id”: “2757cc6a.31a344”,
“type”: “server”,
“z”: “”,
“name”: “Home Assistant”,
“legacy”: false,
“hassio”: true,
“rejectUnauthorizedCerts”: true,
“ha_boolean”: “y|yes|true|on|home|open”,
“connectionDelay”: true
}
]

in the function (json is escaped in code):

var entity_id = msg.payload;
msg.payload = “{"entity_id": "input_text.”+entity_id+“"}”;
return msg;

still getting
““value” is not allowed to be empty”

Kermit · April 8, 2019, 4:59am

Use

msg.payload = {
    entity_id: `input_text.${msg.payload}`
};
return msg;

or

const entity_id = msg.payload
msg.payload = {
    entity_id: "input_text." + msg.payload
};
return msg;

nirkat · April 8, 2019, 6:47am

awesome, it works!

thanks!

anon3692217 · April 12, 2019, 8:42am

Hi @Kermit,

Sorry if it has been asked before but do you really need to use get template before a message call service in order to put that state into a message?

Example:

    {
    "id": "f4b7b8b1.d0c9c",
    "type": "api-call-service",
    "z": "1325b9db.a8ecb6",
    "name": "Message",
    "server": "e5e437c7.ff14c",
    "service_domain": "notify",
    "service": "michael",
    "data": "{\"message\":\"Airco will turn off in {{ states.input_number.airco_slider.state | int }} minutes \"}",
    "mergecontext": "",
    "output_location": "payload",
    "output_location_type": "msg",
    "x": 220,
    "y": 60,
    "wires": [
        [
            "e84c7d7.4f3058"
        ]
    ]
}

[{"id":"1325b9db.a8ecb6","type":"tab","label":"Flow 1","disabled":false,"info":""},{"id":"f4b7b8b1.d0c9c","type":"api-call-service","z":"1325b9db.a8ecb6","name":"Message","server":"e5e437c7.ff14c","service_domain":"notify","service":"michael","data":"{\"message\":\"Airco will turn off in {{ states.input_number.airco_slider.state | int }} minutes \"}","mergecontext":"","output_location":"payload","output_location_type":"msg","x":220,"y":60,"wires":[["e84c7d7.4f3058"]]},{"id":"e84c7d7.4f3058","type":"debug","z":"1325b9db.a8ecb6","name":"","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"false","x":370,"y":60,"wires":[]},{"id":"a55342d8.f7c7b8","type":"inject","z":"1325b9db.a8ecb6","name":"Inject","topic":"","payload":"","payloadType":"date","repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"x":90,"y":60,"wires":[["f4b7b8b1.d0c9c"]]}]

Kermit · April 12, 2019, 9:07am

No, you can access states directly from the call-service node. Review the info panel of the call-service node for a more detailed explanation.

make the data field of the call-service node

{"message":"Airco will turn off in {{states.input_number.airco_slider}} minutes "}

anon3692217 · April 12, 2019, 9:15am

Thanks you helped me into the right direction!
I have been using states.input_number.airco_slider.state instead of states.input_number.airco_slider