Renson healthbox 3.0

Hi !
Can you explain to me how to manage the ventilation level? On my side I can only consult the information but not activate the “boost” or automate according to the humidity level.

I am a beginner on Home Assitant, I installed HACS and this plugin: GitHub - rmassch/healthbox-hacs: Home Assistant HACS Integration for Renson Healthbox 3

I asked Renson for my API key but I haven’t heard back yet.

Thank you!

Hi

I will let the community answer your questions, with regards to teh API keyt, teh service team is usually quick to respond. Have you emailed [email protected]?

Kind regards
Ronan

Hi!
Yes I asked them the api key on friday. I’am waiting the answer :slightly_smiling_face:

Hi @osinthill

You can use the boost service to manage how long and how heavy you want the boost to be.
For example, using the developer tools:

How you handle the actual execution of it in HA is totally up to you. There are several ways to do it using buttons, scripts, automations etc. That’s the beauty of Home Assistant.

For manual boosting,
I for example use an input_select to select the amount of minutes and an input_number to select the boost level after which I use a button per room to be able to boost the specific room for the specified time and level.

Besides that I have an automation that when a room reaches a certain humidity it will automatically boost the ventilation for that room for a certain period of time.

The choice is yours

Steve, did you reach out to @ronandezyn and were you able to get started with the cloud API? I am also looking forward to read out my Renson Waves CO2 via Home Assistant and am willing to assist if needed. My prime goals are being able to read out the values for temperature, humidity, CO2 and VOC. Unfortunately, I was denied access to the cloud API documentation as this is currently only available for professionals and dealers…

All, the cloud API is indeed only available for professionals, unfortunately this includes also the possibility to use it for Waves. We will add an automated way to sign up for the cloud API in 2024, which will also require a signed EULA. We need to be able to support this in an automated way as manual access management will require planned R&D effort. Thanks for understanding and stay tuned

Hello everybody,

I am looking forward to Rensons future integrations of Renson Waves with Home Assistant.

Untill that time, I would very much like to be able to set a script to start a manual mode at 100% for 30 minutes on the Renson Sense app.

I am not a programmer, but it seems to me that API cloud access is not required to send a command. Is there a way to simulate a manual mode command on my Renson Sense app? Any help would be much appreciated.

Kind regards,
Coen

Hi Coen,

Just add this custom component:

With that you can exactly do that what you are looking for and works great.

@rmassch I am also now trying to use your integration but am running into a couple of things.

  • Sensor value of VOC is “wrong” as in comma is on wrong place and precision is probably too high anyway. It also shows “ug/m3” while api returns ppm.
    As far as I know ppm and ug/m3 are not interchangable nor can you calculate one from the other without having more details about the particles.
    I did notice that Renson app and api return different values and app does not even show the unit of measurement. So not sure how accurate, if at all this value is.
  • There is curently no way to boost all rooms at once. Sure i can (and will for now) create an automation that triggers all of them, but a convenience button would be handy :slight_smile:
    Although i am affraid that this endpoint does not exist or is not documented by Renson.
  • When filling in wrong IP address when setting up the integration it just “fails” telling you nothing, unless you look at home assistant logs. Not a dealbreaker at all, but could be improved :slight_smile:
  • Boost time max is now set at 240 minutes, while the app and device supports up to 12 hours (720 min)
  • Names that are given to the entities/sensors are too generic. A prefix with “healthbox” or name of the device would be helpful!
  • Integration is missing details about the device itself: Voltage, Power, RPM, Flow rate and Pressure (hPa). See endpoint: /v2/device.

Is it worth it to create feature requests/bugs on your repo if you would still work on this?
I quickly had a look at the code and was scared away because I am not familiar with Python at all :frowning:

@shocknl

I’ll gladly still work on this
Below are a few notes on your remarks

  • You are right about this. When I was creating the integration I noticed the different values and since I have 0 knowledge about ventilation I just took the sensor, had a quick google on what it was and moved on. I’ll gladly change the sensor to the correct value if we can figure out which is the correct one and in what unit of measurement. Feel free to open an issue on github
  • You may also open a feature request on github to add this service call
  • Please open an issue and I’ll try and get a better notification built in
  • This I agree with but I tried changing that afterwards and it kind of breaks all the automations people have set up since the entities rename. So I decided to leave it as is unless there is a clean way I can migrate people.
  • Also open an issue on github to change the max time
  • I didn’t add this since I thought they weren’t important for people to have. But in hindsight that may have been naive since these are HA people we’re talking about. We want stats of everything :laughing:. Please open a feature request for this as well

Now keep in mind, this might take me a while to get to since I spend more time behind the bbq than behind the PC in my free time at the moment :wink: . If I have some sleepless nights it might go quicker :smiley:

@shocknl feel free to upload the app to the Home Assistant integrations, we are sorting out the license for using our pictures and logo. Meanwhile it may benefit users to have the app in the integrations section, I assume here: Integrations - Home Assistant (home-assistant.io), if you upload picture of e.g. Healthbox 3.0, please mention copyright Renson

@ronandezyn

I think you may have tagged the wrong person there :wink:
In order to have the integration on that page it has to be official and will require some work on my end since it’s now using the HACS (a community store)

So if I get this straight, I can use the images of Renson as long as I mention the Renson copyright of the images on the documentation of the integration?

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Apologies, yes for now this is ok

@ronandezyn

You guys aware of another Renson integration perhaps?

Just noticed this

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Edit: seems to be fore another Renson product called Endura

I was not aware of this. The Endura (Delta) is our current generation of HRV system, we also released a new product called Flux+ Flat recently for which we will develop the local API beginning 2024

Hi @ronandezyn

What is the current status of the local API integration for The Endura (Delta)? While there is an integration available with Home Assistant Core, I am encountering difficulties in establishing a connection with my device. Additionally, the Endura Delta application proves to be completely unusable for me. This is problematic because the device cannot be properly configured.

Apologies for this inconvenience. Could you contact our service department regarding this issue at [email protected]? They will assist you with the connectivity and app issues. Regarding the API, there is no official support for the local API nor plans to further develop this. We have launched a new HRV system which will have a local and cloud API.

@shocknl did you manage to complete the integration or do you need any further assistance? We noticed an (unsupported) integration for Endura Delta (our current HRV) but not yet for Healthbox 3.0 (our current MEV) Renson - Home Assistant (home-assistant.io)

@ronandezyn - I didn’t find the time yet to start improving the existing plugin or writing a new one.
C# (or Java) is more my thing, sadly that is not possible to do HomeAssistant.
I assume creating a HA Addon (container) that sends messages through the HA API or through MQTT is not exactly ideal here I think.

can I have the yaml code from this ?