User email as a trigger

[newby_investor]

FWIW I am running home assistant in Docker on a Pi 2, which also has my pi-hole and DHCP and a bunch of other small things on it. It's running like a champ.

I'd also suggest skipping the whole email thing entirely. Unless you want a notification on your phone or something, but I agree with @SauRoNZA, let the grid status just trigger whatever you want to happen (i.e. a lamp turning on or whatever) directly, not via an email.

 

[SauRoNZA]

FWIW I am running home assistant in Docker on a Pi 2, which also has my pi-hole and DHCP and a bunch of other small things on it. It's running like a champ.

I'd also suggest skipping the whole email thing entirely. Unless you want a notification on your phone or something, but I agree with @SauRoNZA, let the grid status just trigger whatever you want to happen (i.e. a lamp turning on or whatever) directly, not via an email.

Why not run Adguard inside Hass.iO?

Then you don’t need to run it all side by side inside another OS and just baremetal HA instead.

 

[newby_investor]

Why not run Adguard inside Hass.iO?

Then you don’t need to run it all side by side inside another OS and just baremetal HA instead.

Pihole has been with me a long time. I have a pretty easy-to-reproduce setup with ansible playbooks for everything. It took me a little while to put one together for home assistant, but it’s now playing nicely with my other containers.

The host is just Ubuntu and Docker. That’s all. It’s a fairly mature recipe that I am not keen to change.

 

[Dolby]

I'd also suggest skipping the whole email thing entirely. Unless you want a notification on your phone or something, but I agree with @SauRoNZA, let the grid status just trigger whatever you want to happen (i.e. a lamp turning on or whatever) directly, not via an email.

The email thing - if it works - is fine .

If email from x, then do y
If email from a, then do b

I don't even know what Docker, or Pi Hole, or DHCP is ... and the amount of plug-ins / dashboards / versions and things that don't work are insane. I'm happy to try and did look - but then I noted it wasn't a standard .exe program and needed virtual machines and hardware etc . I'm really not technical at all and that put me off

 

[newby_investor]

The email thing - if it works - is fine .

If email from x, then do y
If email from a, then do b

I don't even know what Docker, or Pi Hole, or DHCP is ... and the amount of plug-ins / dashboards / versions and things that don't work are insane. I'm happy to try and did look - but then I noted it wasn't a standard .exe program and needed virtual machines and hardware etc . I'm really not technical at all and that put me off

Yeah home assisted is a stand alone thing, it runs on Linux so it won’t be an exe.

Even if you were to use email though, you’d still need to have something sitting and listening for the email to come in.

Where are you based? The basics aren’t too hard to get your head around with a bit of patient explanatio.

 

[Dolby]

Yeah home assisted is a stand alone thing, it runs on Linux so it won’t be an exe.

Even if you were to use email though, you’d still need to have something sitting and listening for the email to come in.

Where are you based? The basics aren’t too hard to get your head around with a bit of patient explanatio.

I’m in Johannesburg.

If Sauron is right, then with HA I’d bypass the whole mail thing as it’d link direct to the inverter.

 

[Dolby]

As I Google Victron and HA I see the below and get a nose bleed …

 

[newby_investor]

Yeah, once you get to that point it does help to have a technical background.

If you can acquire the hardware though I'm sure there'd be someone willing to help you set it up.