Saving input_boolean states between restarts

BrianHanifin · May 11, 2018, 3:46pm

I created this panel to schedule a wakeup light to turn on. Unfortunately every time I restart Home Assistant it forgets the input_boolean switch states. The input_number times and input_select selections are almost always saved.

I am using InfluxDB with the following .yaml. Does anyone have any ideas?

influxdb:
  host: 127.0.0.1
  port: 8086
  database: homeassistant
  default_measurement: state
  include:
    domains:
      - input_boolean
      - input_number
      - input_select
  exclude:
    domains:
      - automation
      - camera
      - media_player
      - remote
      - scene
      - script
      - sun
      - time
      - weather
      - weblink
    entities:
      - sensor.dark_sky_apparent_temperature
      - sensor.dark_sky_cloud_coverage
      - sensor.dark_sky_cloud_coverage_1
      - sensor.dark_sky_cloud_coverage_2
      - sensor.dark_sky_cloud_coverage_3
      - sensor.dark_sky_cloud_coverage_4
      - sensor.dark_sky_cloud_coverage_5
      - sensor.dark_sky_cloud_coverage_6
      - sensor.dark_sky_cloud_coverage_7
      - sensor.dark_sky_daily_high_apparent_temperature
      - sensor.dark_sky_daily_high_apparent_temperature_1
      - sensor.dark_sky_daily_high_apparent_temperature_2
      - sensor.dark_sky_daily_high_apparent_temperature_3
      - sensor.dark_sky_daily_high_apparent_temperature_4
      - sensor.dark_sky_daily_high_apparent_temperature_5
      - sensor.dark_sky_daily_high_apparent_temperature_6
      - sensor.dark_sky_daily_high_apparent_temperature_7
      - sensor.dark_sky_daily_low_apparent_temperature
      - sensor.dark_sky_daily_low_apparent_temperature_1
      - sensor.dark_sky_daily_low_apparent_temperature_2
      - sensor.dark_sky_daily_low_apparent_temperature_3
      - sensor.dark_sky_daily_low_apparent_temperature_4
      - sensor.dark_sky_daily_low_apparent_temperature_5
      - sensor.dark_sky_daily_low_apparent_temperature_6
      - sensor.dark_sky_daily_low_apparent_temperature_7
      - sensor.dark_sky_daily_max_precip_intensity
      - sensor.dark_sky_daily_max_precip_intensity_1
      - sensor.dark_sky_daily_max_precip_intensity_2
      - sensor.dark_sky_daily_max_precip_intensity_3
      - sensor.dark_sky_daily_max_precip_intensity_4
      - sensor.dark_sky_daily_max_precip_intensity_5
      - sensor.dark_sky_daily_max_precip_intensity_6
      - sensor.dark_sky_daily_max_precip_intensity_7
      - sensor.dark_sky_daily_summary
      - sensor.dark_sky_hourly_summary
      - sensor.dark_sky_humidity
      - sensor.dark_sky_humidity_1
      - sensor.dark_sky_humidity_2
      - sensor.dark_sky_humidity_3
      - sensor.dark_sky_humidity_4
      - sensor.dark_sky_humidity_5
      - sensor.dark_sky_humidity_6
      - sensor.dark_sky_humidity_7
      - sensor.dark_sky_icon
      - sensor.dark_sky_icon_1
      - sensor.dark_sky_icon_2
      - sensor.dark_sky_icon_3
      - sensor.dark_sky_icon_4
      - sensor.dark_sky_icon_5
      - sensor.dark_sky_icon_6
      - sensor.dark_sky_icon_7
      - sensor.dark_sky_minutely_summary
      - sensor.dark_sky_nearest_storm_distance
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_1
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_2
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_3
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_4
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_5
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_6
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_7
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_accumulation
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_accumulation_1
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_accumulation_2
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_accumulation_3
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_accumulation_4
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_accumulation_5
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_accumulation_6
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_accumulation_7
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_intensity
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_intensity_1
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_intensity_2
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_intensity_3
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_intensity_4
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_intensity_5
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_intensity_6
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_intensity_7
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_probability
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_probability_1
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_probability_2
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_probability_3
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_probability_4
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_probability_5
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_probability_6
      - sensor.dark_sky_precip_probability_7
      - sensor.dark_sky_pressure
      - sensor.dark_sky_pressure_1
      - sensor.dark_sky_pressure_2
      - sensor.dark_sky_pressure_3
      - sensor.dark_sky_pressure_4
      - sensor.dark_sky_pressure_5
      - sensor.dark_sky_pressure_6
      - sensor.dark_sky_pressure_7
      - sensor.dark_sky_summary
      - sensor.dark_sky_temperature
      - sensor.dark_sky_wind_bearing
      - sensor.dark_sky_wind_bearing_1
      - sensor.dark_sky_wind_bearing_2
      - sensor.dark_sky_wind_bearing_3
      - sensor.dark_sky_wind_bearing_4
      - sensor.dark_sky_wind_bearing_5
      - sensor.dark_sky_wind_bearing_6
      - sensor.dark_sky_wind_bearing_7
      - sensor.dark_sky_wind_speed
      - sensor.dark_sky_wind_speed_1
      - sensor.dark_sky_wind_speed_2
      - sensor.dark_sky_wind_speed_3
      - sensor.dark_sky_wind_speed_4
      - sensor.dark_sky_wind_speed_5
      - sensor.dark_sky_wind_speed_6
      - sensor.dark_sky_wind_speed_7
      - sensor.load_15m
      - sensor.memory_use_percent
      - sensor.processor_use
      - sensor.since_last_boot
      - sensor.time

I am running HA and InfluxDB in separate docker containers on a laptop running Ubuntu Server 18.04.

petro · May 11, 2018, 4:16pm

input boolean can save states.

You just need to not set it to initial.

If you are using recorder, it may be a bug with input boolean?

BrianHanifin · May 11, 2018, 4:29pm

To use this feature please make sure that the recorder component is enabled and your entity does not have a value set for initial.

I believe I have this all setup correctly. Recorder has identical the identical configuration to the InfluxDB one I shared in my first post. And here is my declaration of those input_boolean’s. I know it should work… I am clearly overlooking something.

brian_wakeup_light.yaml

input_boolean:
  brian_alarm_clock_status:
    name: Activate Alarm
    icon: mdi:alarm-check

  brian_alarm_clock_mon:
    name: Monday
    icon: mdi:blank
  brian_alarm_clock_tue:
    name: Tuesday
    icon: mdi:blank
  brian_alarm_clock_wed:
    name: Wednesday
    icon: mdi:blank
  brian_alarm_clock_thu:
    name: Thursday
    icon: mdi:blank
  brian_alarm_clock_fri:
    name: Friday
    icon: mdi:blank
  brian_alarm_clock_sat:
    name: Saturday
    icon: mdi:blank
  brian_alarm_clock_sun:
    name: Sunday
    icon: mdi:blank

petro · May 11, 2018, 4:53pm

I’m not so sure you can make that assumption. Looking at the code for restoring states on the input_boolean, its specifically looking for 1 of 2 keys: restore_state_cache, and recorder. Searching through the influx source, I don’t see it populating that data. The code in input_boolean explicitly checks for ‘restore_state_cache’ first and if it finds it, it returns that state. Otherwise it checks for recorder, if it doesn’t find recorder it stops and returns ‘None’. So we know you aren’t using recorder because your domain name is influxdb, not recorder. I don’t think you are doing anything wrong, I think this is a problem with influxdb or influxdb doesn’t support restoring states.

BrianHanifin · May 11, 2018, 5:09pm

Looking at the Recorder page it lists the relational databases (like MySQL) as being compatible with it. If I have Influx enabled, does recorder stop using SQLite?

I should probably switch to MySQL. I am familiar with that system. Honestly I just added InfluxDB because it was one of the example Docker containers that was often installed alongside Home Assistant and I figured I’d explore Grafana at some point. But if its not going to make HA more reliable then I don’t want it.

gpbenton · May 11, 2018, 5:11pm

The states are never read from Influxdb, so what you have configured for that is not relevant.

The states can be read from either sqllite or mysql, but note that if you do not change the state of the input_boolean more often than the purge_time of the database, the state will be lost and you seem to get a random value.

petro · May 11, 2018, 5:12pm

Thanks for confirming this.

BrianHanifin · May 11, 2018, 5:21pm

Well that isn’t my problem. I have not specified a purge_time (and I assume it defaults to 10 days) I have been reseting it manually multiple times a day the last 3 days. Everytime I restart the Home Assistant docker container in Portainer.io it resets them.

Maybe I’d be better off writing routines to store those values in and retrieve those values from MQTT?

gpbenton · May 11, 2018, 5:24pm

I actually use an appdaemon app switch_reset.py because of these limitiations. It creates its own database and stores the latest state there, which is never purged.

BrianHanifin · May 11, 2018, 5:27pm

Wow! I was unaware of that. Thank you, I will look into it.

BrianHanifin · May 12, 2018, 4:59pm

To follow up on this, I was able to get this working by adding the following to my /config/appdaemon/apps/app.yaml file. Thank you!

switch_reset:
  module: switch_reset
  class: SwitchReset
  file: /config/appdaemon/apps/preserved_states.db
  log: '1'
  delay: 0
  additional_entities:
    - input_boolean.brian_alarm_clock_status
    - input_number.brian_alarm_clock_hour
    - input_number.brian_alarm_clock_minutes
    - input_select.brian_alarm_clock_light
    - sensor.brian_alarm_clock_day_label
    - input_boolean.brian_alarm_clock_mon
    - input_boolean.brian_alarm_clock_tue
    - input_boolean.brian_alarm_clock_wed
    - input_boolean.brian_alarm_clock_thu
    - input_boolean.brian_alarm_clock_fri
    - input_boolean.brian_alarm_clock_sat
    - input_boolean.brian_alarm_clock_sun

juan11perez · May 12, 2018, 5:10pm

Brian
Use this

github.com

dale3h/homeassistant-config/blob/master/packages/drop-in/persistence.yaml

################################################################
## Packages / Persistent States
################################################################

################################################################
## Add `persistent: true` in the customize section to enable
##   persistence on an entity.
##
## This currently supports: automation, input_boolean,
##   input_select, input_number, input_text, light, and switch.
##
## Example Configuration:
##
## homeassistant:
##   customize:
##     automation.good_morning_lights:
##       persistent: true
##
##     input_boolean.notify_arrival:
##       persistent: true

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BrianHanifin · May 12, 2018, 6:01pm

Oh. That’s intriguing. So instead of having to remember to dig up the /config/appdaemon/apps/app.yaml file, you can define a “persistent” attribute for each object whose state you want to restore on reload. I will give it some thought, I already have the AppDaemon system working, I might like this way better though.

juan11perez · May 12, 2018, 6:52pm

Brian, sorry you had to dust up appdaemon.
This package works perfect. All you have to do is declare persistent:true in the customize.yaml

BrianHanifin · May 13, 2018, 2:10am

Thank you. persistence.yaml is working just as well.

Sanjeewa_Samaranayak · October 16, 2018, 11:48pm

Does this just work just by adding persistent: true in customize or should I add ```
persistence.py in custom_components/sensor folder and adding persistence sensor as per https://github.com/gazoscalvertos/HASS-Persistence

Thanks

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juan11perez · October 17, 2018, 7:04am

This is a different component. Thanks for sharing.

Yogesh_Waran · December 5, 2018, 2:25am

I have downloaded the file. where to place the file…
Do i need to place the file in the configuration folder??

I am new to Home assistant, Thanks in advance.

sparkydave · December 5, 2018, 2:31am

persistance.py is no longer needed as HA will remember your states over a restart now, as long as you have the recorder component enabled.

Yogesh_Waran · December 9, 2018, 2:59pm

thank you…i got it worked