Home Automation - Smartkit

[rorz0r]

Where did you buy it from?

It's available at builders. Sort of co-branded with Ellies in SA.

 

[SAguy]

For that I use Efergy. It intergrated into HA.

Cool, I've got this efergy device:


I assume I'd need their hub to integrate into HA?

 

[SAguy]

Where did you buy it from?

Think I got mine from Makro - a while ago.

 

[calypso]

Where did you buy it from?

I bought it from Builders Warehouse, i dont they stock it anymore, Ellies was the agent.
Additional CT clamps I bought from amazon.co.uk.

 

[calypso]

Cool, I've got this efergy device:
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I assume I'd need their hub to integrate into HA?

I assume so, would need API access.

 

[xrapidx]

I've always wondered, what do you do if you're incoming line is in the wall, and not a exterior conduit?

 

[rorz0r]

Some screenshots of the efergy app.

Note that the efergy hub sends data to efergy, and they have a public API. Home assistant has a module to pull data from this API. There's also a third party app called Monitor on Android.

 

[rorz0r]

I've always wondered, what do you do if you're incoming line is in the wall, and not a exterior conduit?

You put that sensor in the DB box.

 

[SAguy]

Some screenshots of the efergy app.

Note that the efergy hub sends data to efergy, and they have a public API. Home assistant has a module to pull data from this API. There's also a third party app called Monitor on Android.

I saw on the home assistant site there are means to get the efergy data, pretty cool. One can go crazy.

So who has made a floating sonoff with solar power and temperature switch to post pool water temperature to HA? That's next level.

 

[xrapidx]

You put that sensor in the DB box.

Won't other wires interfere?

 

[Sinbad]

Won't other wires interfere?

Nope. You just clamp it around the incoming mains feed. And maybe the geyser feed if you have a sensor for that ttoo.

 

[Tinuva]

Kept having permission, or various other issues on the home-assistant side, even when I gave public full access to the folder, it wouldn't work. I eventually got it working by changing motion to write to the home-assistant folder, but still had to "hack" it with a input_text field on home assistant.

Have a thread on it here: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/cant-send-video-with-telegram/51248

Ok read that.

So perhaps, when you mount the NAS folder in Linux, do 2 things different:
1. mount it somewhere in the homeassistant home folder. eg /home/ha/motion
2. make sure it is mounted as the homeassistant user (ha in above example).

I tried to add an example to this post for you, but then CloudFlare blocks me saying I am doing sql injection. Silly.

 

[xrapidx]

Busy trying to get motion to write to a nas share - can't even get that working

/media/Security
drwxr-xr-x 2 motion motion 0 May 11 2018 motion

...

then in the motion log: event_ffmpeg_newfile: ffopen_open error creating (new) file [/mnt/Security/motion/01-20180511113437.avi]: Permission denied

 

[Tinuva]

Busy trying to get motion to write to a nas share - can't even get that working

/media/Security
drwxr-xr-x 2 motion motion 0 May 11 2018 motion

...

then in the motion log: event_ffmpeg_newfile: ffopen_open error creating (new) file [/mnt/Security/motion/01-20180511113437.avi]: Permission denied

In fstab I have:

//fs1.heaven.za.net/tank /mnt/fs1/tank cifs rw,username=media,password=secretpass,uid=104,gid=1003,_netdev 0 0

 

[xrapidx]

Dammit. Might be a copy and paste error, I have mnt and media.

 

[Tinuva]

Busy trying to get motion to write to a nas share - can't even get that working

/media/Security
drwxr-xr-x 2 motion motion 0 May 11 2018 motion

...

then in the motion log: event_ffmpeg_newfile: ffopen_open error creating (new) file [/mnt/Security/motion/01-20180511113437.avi]: Permission denied

In fstab I have:

//fs1.heaven.za.net/tank /mnt/fs1/tank cifs rw,username=media,password=secretpass,uid=104,gid=1003,_netdev 0 0

make uid same as your homeassistant user, eg where I have 104

 

[xrapidx]

In fstab I have:

//fs1.heaven.za.net/tank /mnt/fs1/tank cifs rw,username=media,password=secretpass,uid=104,gid=1003,_netdev 0 0

make uid same as your homeassistant user, eg where I have 104

Typo on my side - mnt in the one place/ media in the other... although now it doesnt seem to be recording anything...but without error

 

[theonlybutler]

Thats awesome

For that I use Efergy. It intergrated into HA.

I've been waiting months for someone to have a decent chat about this stuff. Can you power the geyser on and off using the Efergy device?

 

[calypso]

I've been waiting months for someone to have a decent chat about this stuff. Can you power the geyser on and off using the Efergy device?

No, its only for monitoring.

 

[theonlybutler]

Damn, thanks for the reply. I've been looking for a wifi enabled geyser switch to integrate with google, I'll check out the Qwikswitch with HA (It just seems bulky).