Just to add - if your phone drops off the wifi (mine does and I’m still trying to find out why… maybe due to power saving), then maybe, you could also look at bluetooth tracking (ie something like ESPresence) for HA to know you’re still at home.

(Bluetooth can also be setup in the Companion App)

Yeah… I’ve been trying out the resizable cards and… well… hopefully the next version will be better.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for incremental improvements and that means we need a Step1 somewhere.

I wanted to just change one dashboard, but there’s no migration option (yet?) which is fair enough, so I created a new one and tried copying over cards…

I have a couple of Glance cards with a title and I can’t really get a single row of icons with title to line up nicely unless I use a 3-row card…

But, it’s also nice to slim down a Graph card to just 2 or 3 columns wide if it’s a short-duration graph.

I look forward to the next revision.

I’m still dabbling with this, but so far I have a Pi Zero2W with a reSpeaker 2-Mics Pi HAT and an old speaker (no idea where from) that (luckily?) has the correct connector on.

It’s ok as a geeky POC, but it needs work to gain sufficient WAF

Just to add… if you don’t want this, the minimal version of the HA app doesn’t use 3rd party systems for notifications (you’d need to setup something yourself), so if this is a problem for you, there’s also that option…

Just sayin’…

Wyzecam (V2) / Neos Smartcam with Dafang Hacks

Works like a charm. Cheap. Cheerful. I have 3 around the house all streaming to HA

Ah, ok… I see. I guess you’ve not filtering on distance then, ok. I see all my neighbours stuff on 1 sensor, so automatically started filtering (and then attempting to tune)

Good point on the negative room sensing, I think I need to start this again… but also ditch the crap module.

Thanks

Noice.

But… how much faffing did you have to do to get the tuning right?

I’ve recently started using this and have 3 different ESP modules and I’m having a hellofatime getting them to show near-enough results, let alone accurate.

1 of them literally has the phone on top of it and it thinks it’s 4m away.

I’ve gone upto absorbtion factor 10 (Spock) with an RSSI adjustment of 6, and that’s passible on 1 device, but not another

So… what’s your secret?

Well written

Nice to know, thanks

Just out of curiosity, I presume a full backup (inside HA, not of the VM itself) can be restored to a completely new HA VM and everything returns? Addons? Integrations? HACS?

Edit: and history?

Or… not?

What graph card are you using?

Not OP, but take a look at Open Energy Monitor - I use EmonPi which is a Raspberry Pi based system with current detection sensors

Uses the Emoncms Integration to read the data into HA.

You can also embed it’s own webUI into HA with a webcard

Not sure where you are in the world, but I’m using OpenEnergyMonitor

Personally, I’m using their Raspberry Pi version (EmonPI) to monitor my total house energy - grid in, solar in and solar export and pull the data directly into HA.

But there’s other options available too, like the 6-channel monitoring, so you could potentially monitor separate circuits and / or high energy systems like heatpumps, etc. They have options for 3-phase too…

In my case, power in AND power out to the grid both flashed the LED on the supply meter (mentioned elsewhere here), so I had to go with CT sensors which I put inside the consumer unit… had a little trouble with calibration due to the electrical noise in there, but +/- a few W is nothing when I have to heat my home with electricity at 4kW+

There’s clearly a lot of negative towards the company, which I agree with, but I’m not reading enough positive support for the dev…

It must be a bit daunting being on the frontline going through this

I’d guess that anyone using the plugin could help them feel supported in these situations by contributing on their “Buy me a coffee” link…

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/andre0512

Thanks, yes, I think active-active would be another magnitude harder… and would need database, history, etc on shared storage… over the top to jist ensure the lights stay on.

And backups are essential for all use cases (and not just the built-in HA backup left on the device / VM / container that just failed!)

Thanks

Hmm… good point. I’ve even got an original Pi kicking around somewhere that I could use… Thanks

Ah, ok, thanks… I’ll have to dig in to this some more

Oh, interesting. From a performance point of view, or reliability?

Ok, yep, if the house burns down (been there, done that), HA is priority 0.

But good point about the offsite backup + compose, I hadn’t considered that - thanks.

Interesting that you’re using a container inside a VM… is that just because you’re using a VM-only hypervisor (ie Xen) or was there another reason?

I’ve heard good things about Proxmox, but no idea if it has a container / VM watchdog function.

Ok, but that’s assuming >1 host can be managed that way… can I manage HA on the Pi3 as a backup to my new host with Kubernetes?

Edit: can Proxmox do this too?