Hi there, is has been a few years now since setting up my system. I remember I had all sorts of problems with setting it up.
I would start from scratch and reset to factory.
You will have a seperate small box that plugs into the INSRG main unit correct?
Also the Insnrg App app I use as it is a lot better than the app.
Sorry cant help further at this stage
This topic has been lingering since 21, is there any update on the integration?
Have the Insnrg developers published their APIs?
The cholorinator is well connected to AWS, it shouldnāt be that hard to build a bridge to see the data in Home Assistant too.
Thanks Dave, Iāll give it another go. Yes, Iāve got the Portal unit. Just not quite clear on the steps to get it set up.
Iāll probably reset the chlorinator and delete the account in the web app and where that gets me.
Just tried again, but unfortunately still no luck.
Have reset the chlorinator to factory settings and set up the WiFi again using their iPhone app. Again the chlorinator fills in the password, but thereās no Wifi name and then the app times out. Have tried it on a 2.4GHz only network with signal strength on high. The Ethernet lights of the Portal are both flashing when I start and only the green light stays on after, but Online Status and AWS Status are both Unknown.
Would really appreciate any other suggestions please?
Thank you!
Being a website you could potentially send webhooks to it that complete the automations. Im only new the the home automation platform. But i do have nsnrg control box.
Im about to give this a good go, just wanted to post here so I can follow any updates with it too.
Hey guys, Iāve also been waiting for quite a while on this integration.
Iāve reached out to the team at INSNRG whom Iāve interacted in the past. Iāve shared the link to this blog and I hope that bumps the priority on developing this integration. Ideally this would be done via API. but shouldnāt be hard to make a custom simple webook query their web portalā¦ did you have any luck with that @Warfy?
A couple of years ago I started using wireshark to look at the requests the app was sending their servers. I got a little way, but it was beyond me to get it to work (say, with curl, or a browser) so I gave up. I was about to try and dig into it again, but I have now discovered that my chlorinator as dropped off my WiFi and the (poor) InTouch app cannot connect to its servers. I found the new app through their website but cannot get the WiFi to reconnect (It had the right details. Now I reset it hoping to reconnect but the menu never shows āSet Up WiFiā, so Iām stuck waiting. Iām surprised the InTouch app has stopped working without notice. I originally set up the WiFi through that, and doing it locally on the chlorinator is not playing nice (and I was not looking forward to getting the password entered with those fiddly buttons anyway)ā¦
Iām very interested in getting an integration working so I can run the pump on solar only. Its a shame it isnāt in existence yet. I boiught one of the earliest units and the owner told me at the time that they planned to release an API, but crickets sinceā¦
Yeah, theyāve changed the app last year or so.
Give them a call/email and they will set it up remotely for you on the new app. I think they need to do something on the back end (but they will need it connected to the wifi first of course)
Check if your wifi signal reaches your clorinathor - I had issues with mine - one access point died at some point out of nothing and I only noticed because couldnāt get pool equipment to connect when summer came.
Thaks. Iāve sent a message to the local technician who fixed the cell last year, hopefully heāll get back to me soon. The WiFi distance isnāt an issue, but itās possible the portal died I suppose. The lights still flash, but who knows. Hopefully the technician
Iāve managed to set up an integration to pull in pool chemistry to HA, which could be expanded to other things I suppose, but I havenāt been able to work out how to use our INSNRG app login credentials in HA to ensure the access tokens donāt expire, so it only works by getting your access token from the official website when you want the data. This isnāt useful, but it works.
Does anyone know anyone who would be able to assist with coding the login/token refresh part (through AWS Cognito) so we can use the integration? Iāve seen an example of someone using it here, but Iām not sure I could unpick the relevant parts and make it work with what Iāve done. It would probably be a couple of hours for someone good with pythonā¦ Oh, looks like that Repo moved 3 days ago, but it is the underlying python xsense package that contained the example AWS stuff anyway).
If I canāt find someone to help I may eventually get it working, in which case Iāll post an update.
You Can take a look to @theosnel , he is the coder of the xsense stuff, But he is very busy with the xsense.
You know, thatās a very good idea! I have just sent Theonel a message, and I agree he looks very busy, but who knows, maybe I sounded sad and pathetic enough that he will take sympathy!
I see you did the HACS integration and that is where the code base moved. How did you stumble upon this so quickly. There must be some magic or spy network at work!
Thanks
Matthew
All the work do Theo. I only maintain the hacs and readme. The hacs repo is a fork of your last picked from Elwiā¦
And i share my devices with Theo.
Well, it looks like I got a very basic integration working, with the help of @Theonel.
You can get it from Github here, and add it to your custom_components folder (instructions in the readme if youāre not sure).
It pulls in pool chemical information (which is all I wanted for alert automations). It could probably do more but Iām weary of allowing it to change settings on your system as I imagine it is the sort of thing you could do some damage with if you set up an automation wrongā¦ Let me know via Github if you are really keen for other data and I will see what I can do.
I have only had it running for a few hours, so I wonāt know if the INSNRG API kicks the session off after a long(er) period unless it happens one dayā¦ Raise an issue if it happens to you.
Hope it helps people.
Matthew
You ca made a HACS repo, If you like i can do it for you. I Need only write rights or i can give you the files
That would be very nice of you, thank you. I would very much appreciate it if you could do that for me. Iād like to let the integration run for a day or two before publishing anythin through HACS to make sure no other niggles pop up.
I donāt use Github a lot, especially in the last few years, but if I invite you to the repo you can branch it and I can pull the changes in next week, right?
I Hope so, Next week i am very busy, But i think it will be work.
Thanks. It doesnāt have to be next week. Any time at all would be fine, I just donāt want to put it on HACS for at least a week to be sure that there are no unexpected issues happening in that timeframe. If it is still good then, it might mean it has no bugs .
Seriously, there is no rush for any time you are willing to donate! Iāll add you as a collaborator on Github so you can access it any time that is convenient. Thanks you very much!.
This is amazing, guys!
Even if starting with the basics, just monitoring chemicals is a great thing!
Not sure how easy it would be to also monitor temperature but alongside chemicals level, thatās also valuable stats.
Iām happy to test it and work with you guys with feedback on my experience once I get it up n running (probably going to wait till itād published via hacs)
Great work!!
Cheers
RZ
Thanks. Iāll get temperature sensors added too. Rayeliint (from this thread above) is helping get me the API response example, as I donāt have temp on my pool. There are 2 sensors (I guess a pool and a spa number), I just need to see which is which and I should update it next week sometime.