Hi Andy,
Firstly, sorry for not replying to your suggestions on the original topic about how I might be able to achieve different temperature settings depending on house occupancy (Heating X2: Schedule Thermostats with Calendars [CLOSED] - #32 by AndySymons). I’d missed the post in the changeover to this new topic. All good suggestions & I’ll investigate the best way forwards (I like the idea of different automations that can be selected for the same “zone”).
Since my last posts I’ve moved my Home Server across onto a new system & I‘ve been setting Home Assistant up again from scratch as a clean install. I’m not sure if it’s due to newer versions of Home Assistant (I’m currently running 2024.8.3), but I’ve had a few issues getting Heating X2 running.
It seems to be based around logging and errors are produced if I don’t generate the specific logfile & notify service (& specify them in the automation). ie If I decide that I don’t want to use logging, the script.logfile_entry causes an error.
I have logfile_entry.yaml installed as a package and it is recognised by the automations. By way of example, I have two automations both based on the HeatingX2 blueprint. Zone 1 is configured to use a notification service notify.zone1_log (held withing /config/log_files/zone1.log), but for Zone 2 I have not specified logging.
I get the following error in the Main Home Assistant log when changing the temperature setting for Zone 2:
2024-09-01 11:07:22.681 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.script.logfile_entry] Log File Entry: If at step 1: Error executing script. Invalid data for call_service at pos 1: not a valid value for dictionary value @ data['entity_id']
2024-09-01 11:07:22.682 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.script.logfile_entry] Log File Entry: Error executing script. Invalid data for if at pos 1: not a valid value for dictionary value @ data['entity_id']
2024-09-01 11:07:22.682 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.automation.zone_2_heating] Zone 2 heating: Error executing script. Invalid data for call_service at pos 1: not a valid value for dictionary value @ data['entity_id']
2024-09-01 11:07:22.682 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.automation.zone_2_heating] Error while executing automation automation.zone_2_heating: not a valid value for dictionary value @ data['entity_id']
If I look at the Automation Trace for Zone 2 I get:
Error: not a valid value for dictionary value @ data['entity_id']
Result:
params:
domain: script
service: logfile_entry
service_data:
notification_service: ''
logfile_title: Heating X2
message_preamble: Zone 2 heating
message_body: '---'
target: {}
running_script: true
child_id:
domain: script
item_id: logfile_entry
If I compare this to zone 1, which does have a logfile:
Executed: 1 September 2024 at 11:05:05
Result:
params:
domain: script
service: logfile_entry
service_data:
notification_service: zone1_log
logfile_title: Heating X2
message_preamble: Zone 1 heating
message_body: '---'
target: {}
running_script: true
child_id:
domain: script
item_id: logfile_entry
Zone 1 seems to be functioning correctly. Of additional note, in order to setup the notify service using the File Integration I had to add the following to my Home Assistant config, else I had permission issues:
homeassistant:
allowlist_external_dirs:
- “/config/log_files/”
The requirement for allowlist_external_dirs is specified at File - Home Assistant
Again, thank you for this great automation. I’m looking forward to getting it fully up-and-running before the winter kicks in!
