phairplay
(Phairplay)
October 23, 2017, 11:48am
1
hi,
i new to home assistant and would really appericate some help
i’ve installed HA and appdaemon (hello world worked as expected) i would really like to use occu sim to randomly tuen on and off my light and tv when im away.
here is my appdaemon yaml file
AppDaemon:
logfile: STDOUT
errorfile: STDERR
logsize: 100000
log_generations: 3
threads: 10
cert_path:
cert_verify: True
timezone: = <timezone>
api_port: 5000
api_key:
api_ssl_certificate:
api_ssl_key:
HASS:
ha_url: http://192.168.0.13:8123
ha_key: password123
here is my app.yaml file
Occupancy Simulator:
module: occusim
class: OccuSim
log: 1
#notify: 1
enable: input_boolean.holiday,off
test: 1
dump_times: 1
#reset_time: 02:00:00
random_holiday_name: Evening holiday
random_holiday_start: Evening
random_holiday_end: Night
random_holiday_maxduration: 00:30:00
random_holiday_minduration: 00:03:00
random_holiday_number: '3'
random_holiday_off_1: scene.holiday_off
random_holiday_on_1: scene.holiday_on
when i run appdaemon i get the following error
2017-10-23 11:38:07.728796 INFO AppDaemon Version 2.1.10 starting
2017-10-23 11:38:07.729841 INFO Configuration read from: /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/conf/appdaemon.yaml
2017-10-23 12:38:07.837332 INFO Starting Apps
2017-10-23 12:38:07.927453 INFO Got initial state
2017-10-23 12:38:07.928936 INFO Loading Module: /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/conf/apps/occusim.py
2017-10-23 12:38:07.930795 INFO Loading Object Occupancy Simulator using class OccuSim from module occusim
2017-10-23 12:38:07.934714 WARNING ------------------------------------------------------------
2017-10-23 12:38:07.935119 WARNING Unexpected error during loading of Occupancy Simulator:
2017-10-23 12:38:07.935417 WARNING ------------------------------------------------------------
2017-10-23 12:38:07.938251 WARNING Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/appdaemon/appdaemon.py", line 911, in read_app
init_object(name, class_name, module_name, conf.app_config[name])
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/appdaemon/appdaemon.py", line 582, in init_object
conf.objects[name]["object"].initialize()
File "/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/conf/apps/occusim.py", line 31, in initialize
self.create_events({})
File "/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/conf/apps/occusim.py", line 157, in create_events
starttime = events[startstep]["event"]
KeyError: 'Evening'
2017-10-23 12:38:07.938704 WARNING ------------------------------------------------------------
what am i doing wrong?
aimc
(Andrew Cockburn)
October 23, 2017, 4:26pm
2
You can;t have a random event without 2 scheduled events to use as start and end times.
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phairplay
(Phairplay)
October 23, 2017, 5:28pm
3
Sorry to be a pest
And Thank You for the response
How would that look? Would I use the same scene?
aimc
(Andrew Cockburn)
October 23, 2017, 5:44pm
4
There’s an explanation here:
The reason it was “working” when you separated the files is because the OccuSim file was being ignored.
The problem is that when defining a random, you need to give it a fixed event as start and stop, not times. So you need to define 2 steps, one for the beginning of the period, one for the end - e.g.:
step_evening_name: Evening
step_evening_start: 16:00:00
step_evening_name: Night
step_evening_start: 23:59:59
Then use Evening and Night instead of 04:00:00 and 12:30:00.
Couple of other poin…
Basically you need to create scheduled events for Evening and Night.
phairplay
(Phairplay)
October 23, 2017, 6:51pm
5
Oh okay
So if I’m understanding this correctly im giving it a parameter to work within.
Start after a certain time “evening” and an end “night”
and use times like this
‘00:30:00’ or this “00:30:00”
but not like this
00:30:00
unless its part of a string
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phairplay
(Phairplay)
October 24, 2017, 9:20am
8
Hi, guys
I really appericate all the help
so I now have the following in my app file
Occupancy Simulator:
module: occusim
class: OccuSim
log: 1
#notify: 1
enable: input_boolean.holiday,off
test: 1
dump_times: 1
#reset_time: 02:00:00
random_holiday_end: Night
random_holiday_maxduration: 00:30:00
random_holiday_minduration: 00:03:00
random_holiday_name: Evening holiday
random_holiday_number: '3'
random_holiday_off_1: scene.holiday_off
random_holiday_on_1: scene.holiday_on
random_holiday_start: Evening
step_evening_name: Evening
step_evening_start: sunset - 00:45:00
step_night_end: '22:30:00'
step_night_name: Night
step_night_on_1: event.MODE_CHANGE,mode
step_night_start: '21:30:00'
and when I ran the appdeamon I see this
2017-10-24 09:13:52.181856 INFO AppDaemon Version 2.1.10 starting
2017-10-24 09:13:52.182377 INFO Configuration read from: /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/conf/appdaemon.yaml
2017-10-24 10:13:52.288375 INFO Starting Apps
2017-10-24 10:13:52.387548 INFO Got initial state
2017-10-24 10:13:52.389016 INFO Loading Module: /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/conf/apps/occusim.py
2017-10-24 10:13:52.390813 INFO Loading Object Occupancy Simulator using class OccuSim from module occusim
2017-10-24 10:13:52.565250 INFO Occupancy Simulator: Evening: @ 2017-10-24 17:06:10
2017-10-24 10:13:52.568618 INFO Occupancy Simulator: Evening holiday_on_1: @ 2017-10-24 18:17:56
2017-10-24 10:13:52.571903 INFO Occupancy Simulator: Evening holiday_off_1: @ 2017-10-24 18:42:19
2017-10-24 10:13:52.575291 INFO Occupancy Simulator: Evening holiday_on_0: @ 2017-10-24 19:06:44
2017-10-24 10:13:52.578589 INFO Occupancy Simulator: Evening holiday_off_0: @ 2017-10-24 19:22:57
2017-10-24 10:13:52.581850 INFO Occupancy Simulator: Evening holiday_on_2: @ 2017-10-24 21:35:29
2017-10-24 10:13:52.585169 INFO Occupancy Simulator: Evening holiday_off_2: @ 2017-10-24 21:36:10
2017-10-24 10:13:52.588451 INFO Occupancy Simulator: Night: @ 2017-10-24 21:48:40
2017-10-24 10:13:52.588851 INFO Loading Module: /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/conf/apps/hello.py
2017-10-24 10:13:52.590219 INFO App initialization complete
2017-10-24 10:13:52.590909 INFO Dashboards are disabled
2017-10-24 10:13:52.591226 INFO Starting API
2017-10-24 10:13:52.604572 INFO Connected to Home Assistant 0.55.1
can you please confirm. Will it continue to generate randoms time each day, yet only trigger them if I switch my boolean switch to on?
like i said times should be strings. i could be that you get unexpected results when you dont use it like:
random_holiday_maxduration: ‘00:30:00’
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phairplay
(Phairplay)
October 24, 2017, 10:58am
10
I copied over the settings from the occusim example on github.
the occupancy app was written for the older version from appdaemon which still had .cfg configuration and where it wasnt yaml.
yaml does thing different when it isnt between quotes.
so for this app it is good practice to use all times in quotes, to make sure they are handled well.
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phairplay
(Phairplay)
October 24, 2017, 11:53am
12
Oh okay
Thank you for the help
Could you help me with how to trigger this?
Will it continue to generate randoms time each day, yet only trigger them if I switch my boolean switch to on?
phairplay
(Phairplay)
October 24, 2017, 3:07pm
14
Great
One last question
How do I get occusim to auto start after a reboot?
if appdaemon starts, occusim is automaticly started.
how to start appdaemon automaticly is in the docs. (if you havent done that already.)
phairplay
(Phairplay)
October 24, 2017, 8:20pm
16
hi ReneTode,
i now have occusim working. thank you so much for the help this far. i really do appericate it.
i’ve looked at the documents to have appdaemon auto start on reboot but im struggling
i installed HA by the All in One install
so i created the following required file
appdaemon.service (located in /etc/systemd/system)
[Unit]
Description=AppDaemon
After=home-assistant.service
[Service]
Type=simple
User=homeassistant
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/appdaemon -c /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/conf
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
i changed
After=home-assistant.service
User=homeassistant
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/appdaemon -c /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/conf
to match my set up
i then ran
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
which was fine
then i ran
sudo systemctl enable appdaemon.service --now
which returns
systemctl: unrecognized option '--now'
how do i resolve this?
i am sorry but with that i cant help.
my startup is completely different and with that kind of setup i have never worked.
i hope someone else can help you with that.
but there is a lot of information about how to configure and start systemctl on the forum and you could also google for
sudo systemctl enable
phairplay
(Phairplay)
October 24, 2017, 9:47pm
18
if amyone could help
i‘ve followed all the steps
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo vi /etc/systemd/system/[email protected]
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo systemctl enable [email protected]
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo systemctl start appdaemon@appdaemon
and when i check the status i get the following error
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo systemctl status appdaemon@appdaemon
● [email protected] - AppDaemon
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/[email protected] ; enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2017-10-24 21:42:55 UTC; 46s ago
Process: 3576 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/appdaemon -c /home/homeassistant/.homea ssistant/conf (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 3576 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Oct 24 21:42:55 raspberrypi appdaemon[3576]: BaseRotatingHandler.__init__(se...)
Oct 24 21:42:55 raspberrypi appdaemon[3576]: File "/usr/lib/python3.4/loggin..._
Oct 24 21:42:55 raspberrypi appdaemon[3576]: logging.FileHandler.__init__(se...)
Oct 24 21:42:55 raspberrypi appdaemon[3576]: File "/usr/lib/python3.4/loggin..._
Oct 24 21:42:55 raspberrypi appdaemon[3576]: StreamHandler.__init__(self, se...)
Oct 24 21:42:55 raspberrypi appdaemon[3576]: File "/usr/lib/python3.4/loggin...n
Oct 24 21:42:55 raspberrypi appdaemon[3576]: return open(self.baseFilename, ...)
Oct 24 21:42:55 raspberrypi appdaemon[3576]: PermissionError: [Errno 13] Per...'
Oct 24 21:42:55 raspberrypi systemd[1]: [email protected] : main pr...E
Oct 24 21:42:55 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Unit [email protected] ent....
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
seems like the filerights are not right to be accessed by the service.
phairplay
(Phairplay)
October 25, 2017, 12:31pm
20
Hi
I removed
User=homeassistant
And it’s now working
Cheers
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