Home Assistant : Q&A, Tips & Tricks, Your Configs

[furpile]

Haven't played too much with HA notifications, but I like that telegram allows prepared responses I can simply tap on (for example to disarm / re-arm the alarm if it is triggered

The HA notifications are the same. I have some that pop up and I think you can have 3 actions on it (4 on Apple I think). I manage this through node red, and then each action can do whatever you want.

 

[MidnightZA]

I just got my Pi4 4GB earlier and Im trying to set it up but I just found out the Orico 2.5 SSD enclosure does not work on the Pi and Im assuming the Samsung T3 portable ssd also doesnt work since the same thing happens with both.
Im flashing to an SD card for now. But in the mean time I need to get a supported USB to SSD adaptor.

Anyone know of an adaptor that would work?

 

[w1tw0lf]

I use a combination of both.

Basically the problem with the HA notifications is you can't get back to them as a list, where on Telegram you can access your chat to see the log

In the mobile app, go to app configuration and under notification, there is a list of the last 25 notification send.

 

[Tinuva]

I just got my Pi4 4GB earlier and Im trying to set it up but I just found out the Orico 2.5 SSD enclosure does not work on the Pi and Im assuming the Samsung T3 portable ssd also doesnt work since the same thing happens with both.
Im flashing to an SD card for now. But in the mean time I need to get a supported USB to SSD adaptor.

Anyone know of an adaptor that would work?

While you at it, try nvme

Upgrade your Raspberry Pi 4 with a NVMe boot drive

You can upgrade the storage in your Raspberry Pi 4 with an NVMe drive using USB3 to get more reliable storage and faster I/O than an SD…

alexellisuk.medium.com

 

[Veroland]

I just got my Pi4 4GB earlier and Im trying to set it up but I just found out the Orico 2.5 SSD enclosure does not work on the Pi and Im assuming the Samsung T3 portable ssd also doesnt work since the same thing happens with both.
Im flashing to an SD card for now. But in the mean time I need to get a supported USB to SSD adaptor.

Anyone know of an adaptor that would work?

Have you tried USB 2.0 in the mean time?

 

[MidnightZA]

Have you tried USB 2.0 in the mean time?

Yup tried the USB 2 port with the Orico and Samsung

While you at it, try nvme

Upgrade your Raspberry Pi 4 with a NVMe boot drive

You can upgrade the storage in your Raspberry Pi 4 with an NVMe drive using USB3 to get more reliable storage and faster I/O than an SD…

alexellisuk.medium.com

I have 3 SSDs not in use. I just put a nvme drive into my PC and took out the SSD.

 

[Neuk_]

Arg Despite saying it is running and it looks to be connected, PAI will no longer interact with our Paradox alarm, no matter what I do like restarting it, restarting MQTT, restarting the HA server, rebooting the RPi, etc, etc. And it happened randomly, yesterday morning I got up and switched off the alarm, last night I went to bed, I couldn't switch the alarm on and noticed HA was not reporting the correct state of at least one door sensor. Back to Insite Gold for now...

 

[crashy]

Arg Despite saying it is running and it looks to be connected, PAI will no longer interact with our Paradox alarm, no matter what I do like restarting it, restarting MQTT, restarting the HA server, rebooting the RPi, etc, etc. And it happened randomly, yesterday morning I got up and switched off the alarm, last night I went to bed, I couldn't switch the alarm on and noticed HA was not reporting the correct state of at least one door sensor. Back to Insite Gold for now...

Just to ask, as I had similar. My home assistant VM got a new IP address and then my MQTT IP address was wrong in the PAI config (had the old IP) and that caused me a lot of issues to try and find out. Maybe check that.

 

[TedLasso]

Arg Despite saying it is running and it looks to be connected, PAI will no longer interact with our Paradox alarm, no matter what I do like restarting it, restarting MQTT, restarting the HA server, rebooting the RPi, etc, etc. And it happened randomly, yesterday morning I got up and switched off the alarm, last night I went to bed, I couldn't switch the alarm on and noticed HA was not reporting the correct state of at least one door sensor. Back to Insite Gold for now...

Have the same issue. Started last night with no changes on my side and was coming here to ask the same.

What I noticed:-
On PAI git page, they are on 2.6.0 (released 12 days ago). Mines is still showing 2.5.2 and no update.
I did everything you did, including upgrading to 2021.5.5 (in case) and no change.
Error messages I was getting related to no IP or something

this morning, I disconnected IP150 from alarm panel and reconnected (a reboot of it). Restarted PAI and it connected to the panel but nothing working too.

Wondering how to upgrade PAI to 2.6.0 manually but don't want to go through the pain of reinstalling all switches, etc if the mqtt names change inside HA.

Fsck, it hurts to be dependant to on this. Had to use the insite gold app too - that's even worse.

Edit: To say, all my IPs for HA, etc are static.

 

[Neuk_]

Just to ask, as I had similar. My home assistant VM got a new IP address and then my MQTT IP address was wrong in the PAI config (had the old IP) and that caused me a lot of issues to try and find out. Maybe check that.

I checked IP addresses on my router and all are still the same but I do have a LAN and WIFi address for the RPi but always used the WiFi IP address.

 

[grump_grouch]

Just to ask, as I had similar. My home assistant VM got a new IP address and then my MQTT IP address was wrong in the PAI config (had the old IP) and that caused me a lot of issues to try and find out. Maybe check that.

Check what version of Mosquitto you are running. The latest Mosquitto plugin (think it is 6*) breaks PAI/HA interaction. Either do not upgrade the Mosquitto plugin, or run a stand-alone version.

 

[Neuk_]

Have the same issue. Started last night with no changes on my side and was coming here to ask the same.

What I noticed:-
On PAI git page, they are on 2.6.0 (released 12 days ago). Mines is still showing 2.5.2 and no update.
I did everything you did, including upgrading to 2021.5.5 (in case) and no change.
Error messages I was getting related to no IP or something

this morning, I disconnected IP150 from alarm panel and reconnected (a reboot of it). Restarted PAI and it connected to the panel but nothing working too.

Wondering how to upgrade PAI to 2.6.0 manually but don't want to go through the pain of reinstalling all switches, etc if the mqtt names change inside HA.

Fsck, it hurts to be dependant to on this. Had to use the insite gold app too - that's even worse.

Edit: To say, all my IPs for HA, etc are static.

Strange, I disconnected my IP150 from the alarm panel as well, no change with regards to HA though.

 

[Neuk_]

Check what version of Mosquitto you are running. The latest Mosquitto plugin (think it is 6*) breaks PAI/HA interaction. Either do not upgrade the Mosquitto plugin, or run a stand-alone version.

Arg, I checked mine and am on 6.0.1 Is there anyway to roll back?

 

[grump_grouch]

Arg, I checked mine and am on 6.0.1 Is there anyway to roll back?

I just uninstalled Mosquitto and set up a stand-alone version

 

[Gielie01]

Arg, I checked mine and am on 6.0.1 Is there anyway to roll back?

Lots of mqtt based itegrations broke yesterday when 6.0.1 rolled out, I restored mosquitto from a backup the previous day that was still on 5.1.1 and disabled auto updates.

 

[Gielie01]

I also tried an alternative to mosquitto that worked fine once setup, but for now im happy keeping it on 5.1.1

 

[crashy]

Arg, I checked mine and am on 6.0.1 Is there anyway to roll back?

I also had this too. I just uninstalled and re-installed and things just worked.

 

[Gielie01]

Have the same issue. Started last night with no changes on my side and was coming here to ask the same.

What I noticed:-
On PAI git page, they are on 2.6.0 (released 12 days ago). Mines is still showing 2.5.2 and no update.
I did everything you did, including upgrading to 2021.5.5 (in case) and no change.
Error messages I was getting related to no IP or something

this morning, I disconnected IP150 from alarm panel and reconnected (a reboot of it). Restarted PAI and it connected to the panel but nothing working too.

Wondering how to upgrade PAI to 2.6.0 manually but don't want to go through the pain of reinstalling all switches, etc if the mqtt names change inside HA.

Fsck, it hurts to be dependant to on this. Had to use the insite gold app too - that's even worse.

Edit: To say, all my IPs for HA, etc are static.

Look into mqtt, im sure your issue lies there, even @Priapus had MQTT issues yesterday.

 

[TedLasso]

I also had this too. I just uninstalled and re-installed and things just worked.

Will try this later tonight!

 

[MidnightZA]

I also had this too. I just uninstalled and re-installed and things just worked.

Uninstalled what? I just updated my mosquito earlier today so I'm expecting issues when I go home today.
Would a reinstall from my daily snapshot roll back to the old mosquito?