SBFspot Bluetooth homeassistant addon

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This will poll your inverter to update your sensors when homeassistant restarts when it is dark.
This is how I would set up said automation.

First you need to use puttygen to make a public private key

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the Public key, (which is the blue highlighted bit)
gets pasted into a file called `id_rsa.pub' or whatever you want to call it.
for this example its 'id_rsa_ha.pub'

The Private key you need to go to 'Conversions > export OpenSSH Key'
That gets pasted into a file called 'id_rsa_ha'

They get put in config/.shh/ note the fullstop .ssh for hidden directory.

You can create known_hosts file at this time too.

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You need to change the permissions on the id_rsa_ha file via the console (Terminal addons -la)
chmod 600 id_rsa_ha

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If you don't change the permissions you will get an error.
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Once all that is done you can test the command in Terminal and SSH addon( the official one, not the community one).

The command is

ssh [email protected] -o UserKnownHostsFile=/config/.ssh/known_hosts -i /config/.ssh/id_rsa_ha 'docker exec addon_a51a23d8_multiinv-sbfspot /SBFspot -v -finq -mqtt'

You need to change the hostname(haosVM.local) to your hostname(eg. homeassistant.local)
You will also need to change addon_a51a23d8_multiinv-sbfspot to the other addon if that's the addon you are using. eg. addon_a51a23d8_haos-sbfspot

for example
ssh [email protected] -o UserKnownHostsFile=/config/.ssh/known_hosts -i /config/.ssh/id_rsa_ha 'docker exec addon_a51a23d8_haos-sbfspot /SBFspot -v -finq -mqtt'

don't forget the quotes wrapping the docker exec part.


Once it works you can make a shell_command in your configuration.yaml

shell_command:
  # poll SBFspot Inverter with -finq
  sbfpot_finq: ssh [email protected] -o UserKnownHostsFile=/config/.ssh/known_hosts -i /config/.ssh/id_rsa_ha 'docker exec addon_a51a23d8_multiinv-sbfspot /SBFspot -v -finq -mqtt'

Then you can make your automation

alias: SBFspot Poll nighttime
description: SBFspot poll inverter on HA restarts outside of daytime hours.
trigger:
  - platform: homeassistant
    event: start
condition:
  - condition: sun
    before: sunrise
    after: sunset
  - condition: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.multiinv_sbfspot_running   ## Enable in supervisor integration
    state: "on"
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 0
action:
  - service: shell_command.sbfpot_finq   ## This was made above
    data: {}
mode: single

The binary sensor comes from Supervisor Integration in Devices and Services
You need to enable the binary sensor

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Hopefully I will figure out websockets one day and make the automation redundant. This Automation is significantly easier to setup than websockets so far however.

I suppose you could also use the shell_command to poll your inverter more often..



Thanks to Mike and if you need further info