So it looks like the devs have pulled the portainer add-on stating that it is too powerful and could render your home assistant instance unsupported. I guess this is because you can modify your core home assistant containers. There are other versions of the portainer add on that you can run. Here is a link to a post that describes setting up another version. community.home-assistant.io/t/home-assistant-community-add-on-portainer/68836/176
In reading the statement from the dev of discontinued portainer: "While this add-on is created and maintained with care and with security in mind, in the wrong or inexperienced hands, it could damage your system." Should "damaging your system" be a concern with the alternate portainer version? If so, is there anything to mitigate the risk?
The reason that they post this is because you can go in and delete an add-on, or critical component of the home system containers. As long as you don't mess with the home assistant containers you should be okay.
Wow….. thank you for taking the time to get back to your followers …. Thank you for your support ….. I am definitely become a subscriber of your channel !!!! Awesome 🤩
I can’t tell you how happy I am I’ve found this video!! I was trying to add nest plugin to HomeBridge and didn’t have a clue what token etc to copy & paste. This worked perfectly. Thanks
So happy I found your video today. got all setup with the updated Portainer and both my Nest thermostats are now added to home assistant. Thanks! You have earned another subscriber.
Thanks for this video! I was confused about the authentication methods to complete my Nest Protect smoke detector setup in Homebridge but your video cleared up my confusion.
I just started with a fesh install of HA and this was the first thing I added.. THANK YOU so much for the tutorial.. Its nice to have my thermostat back in HA.
@@ThisSmartHouse With all the hoops to jump through for the "official" integration you would think it would be more full-featured. Now I'm wondering about adding more things that have better HomeKit integration. I have some Eufy cameras and was able to add the plugin to Homebridge. The sensors came over into Home Assistant with no issues...but it deemed my Nest Plugin as unavailable. Is there an easy way to add as a second instance? One for Nest and one for Eufy?
@@ThisSmartHouse I was headed down that path...but I just updated the plugin bridge settings for each to set it as a child bridge. Home Assistant considers them separate bridges. At first I was a little confused because the QR Code for each child bridge did not include the access code. I thought I tried the code from the "master" bridge and it didn't work. But I messed around and retyped it for each plugin that Home Assistant recognized and it accepted both with the same code. Must have mis-typed the first time. They are nested in Home Assistant just like other integrations when you have multiple instances. Now they both work in Home Assistant.
Excellent walk through. I managed to do it before finding this video and was looking how to differentiate the entities from Nest Protects and I can verify what you said works if people have a second server on their network installing homebridge via docker there and access it just as you've described. HA will auto-discover whether it's installed on the HA or on a different device on the same subnet. Tip, ensure that the interface for discovery such is blank by default is changed to your network interface, usually eth0 on an rPi.
Great job! FYI, my thermostat came through just fine, but I had to also add the Homebridge Nest Cam plugin to see my cameras. Looks like this may only work for the Thermostat and (and temp sensors).
Ryan is this still working ? Your video is excellent …. You Dona really nice job going step by step. Before I spent the time, can you confirm that today this mechanism is still a recommendation ???
Yep it still works. I am still using the Home bridge integration to run my Nest thermostat. I am so glad the video helped. Let me know if you run into trouble.
Clear and helpfull tutorial, only one problem. You describe that homebridge will automatically appear in home assistant. That is not the case in my configuration. If I want to manually add it it cannot be found. How can I add it manually or get it to be found automatically?
@@ThisSmartHouse It wasn't. But now after a lot persistent trying etc It finally appeared. Next problem; it doesn't accept the pairing code. You guys make it look so easy but somehow it is a struggle in my situation. For instance I tried what you showed at about 12:40 (adding integration) and I get a different screen. In the meantime the discovered homebridge dissappeared again, so frustrating. I'm starting to consider giving up ...
have had it up and running for months, today temperature hadnt updated, uninstalled and reinstalled now unable to get it set up using nest access token, getting the following message auth failed access token rejected unable to authenticate not sure what i have done wrong
Hey, I could not find my homebridge instance on home assistant. I tried using "Homekit controller" and my instance doesn't show up in the list. Does it not work if the instance is already connected to my iphone? Like will it not show itself as available to pair if the my phone already has connected to the bridge?
So you have already set up your HomeBridge? Can you access it via homeassistant.local:8581 ? If you have tried paring it to Home Assistant in the past and have removed it, there is a trick to getting it readded. I actually showed how to do this in my latest video, here is a link right to the section: ruclips.net/video/DUBvaNHpCIg/видео.html
@@ThisSmartHouse Yeah I have lots of experience using homebridge. I can't access it via the local url (I've never really understood why), but I can always access it via the actual address (192.168.XX.XX:8581). The link you sent implies that I have to nuke my existing hombridge --> Homekit setup. Is that right? So by deleting that instance, I'd be removing my phone's access? I guess the issue is that i've built up such an extensive network (especially with node red flows) that I'd be hesitant to do it all at once. I was hoping to be able to expose homebridge to home assistant and to homekit concurrently so that I could slowly and iteratively remove stuff. Any thoughts on that? I might try building out child bridges and seeing if I can do that iteratively...
Very good tutorial... Just a quick question, I have already had a homebridge server setup, is there a way to add this homebridge into the Home Assistant without doing the portainer way? Or, it must be through integration with Portainer? Thank you
No if you already have home bridge set up then your don't need to create a 2nd one. Just follow the steps after the install of home bridge (starting at installing the nest plug in). Home assistant should detect the home bridge install.
Thank you for your advice. I just check and see mine was not quite right. Homekit does show up in the integration windows, but it shows 2 doors 's locks (happen to be August) and the "HASS bridge" only while I have Nest Thermostat, sensors, doorbell, etc... no where to be seen!!! It seems that it shows Homeassistant instance instead of Homebridge. Is there a way that I can add the homebridge by specifying the IP address? My HA server is the virtual machine running HA OS. My Homebridge is installed on a Ubuntu server. Both are on the same network. Any hint is greatly appreciated
I actually test it myself. I can confirm that you need to install Homebridge via Portainer inside the HomeAssistant for it to be integrated. I just installed Portainer, setup Homebridge and voila, it shows up immediately on the HomeAssistant. But thank you again for the tutorial
Oh, just one last question, how do you update the Portainer inside HomeAssistant? Clicking the "Auto Update" feature does not seem to work. At the moment, there is newer version 2.9.2, and the one come with HA is 2.0.0. If I use the Terminal into the HA itself, running command "docker ps" would result in "bash Command not found"...
Hi, does this method still work, now that Works With Nest is deprecated since 29 September 2023? I’m not familiar with Homebridge, so does their Nest plugin still work today? If it still works, is this method able to report the Home and Away status of my Nest V3 thermostat to Home Assistant and set those?
@@ThisSmartHouse thanks a lot, I appreciate you took the time to answer! Do you know if the current home/away status of a nest thermostat is amongst the data this route can bring to HA?
I'm having issues with the homebridge plugin authentication following the instructions in this video; any idea if having dual authentication activated on my Google account makes any difference? I grab the issue token and cookie as instructed, restart homebridge and the log indicates Google authentication was unsuccessful. Any thoughts?
They have released another authentication method called refresh token, you can use either the method I showed or the new one. I have 2fa on my Google account and I have no problems with the cookie method.
Stuck at first step. Home Assistant 2022.10.4 no longer has a Supervisor selection. If I go to the Add In Store, searching for "port" does not show anything. Help!
A few versions ago they moved it to Settings > Add ons. Did you see my pinned post about it being removed from the regular store but being available as a community add on?
@@ThisSmartHouse Sorry, I did not see that. I did manage to install it and start it. When I click on "Open Web UI", it goes to a page that says app not running. When I go back to the app it has stopped.
@@ThisSmartHouse yeah, i looked through it again, and the nest-cam one has a different login mechanism to the homebridge-nest one you used (which has a nest login option and a google / issue / cookie option). This is my first foray in a while back into this level of tinkering, so thanks for the help
Dude. Thank you so much for this excelent instruction video! It's a shame portainer is discontinued in HA so it seems :( gonna try and run home bridge on my Unraid NAS in a docker though :)
@@ThisSmartHouse thanks, but I got the Home bridge working on my Unraid Nas as a docker. Just had to make sure it did not have a bridged IP but a fixed IP. Works as a charme so far. So thanks again!
Hi..I've had this integration working fine until the recent update to HA 8.7 a few days ago. Now it shows entities as unavailable. Would you know that might be? Thanks, Paul
I have a specific problem maybe you can help with. First off, thank you for the video. I've been running this for a few weeks now and it's great. Except... Any time my power goes out, when home assistant restarts and everything is back up and running, the home assistant shows what the nest was at before the power went out. To fix this, I have to go into portainer each time and restart the homebridge stack/container and it updates it and gets it back on track again. Any idea how to fix this where I don't have to go into portainer each time to manually restart the container?
I went with the Nest only route (min: 8:25). I have configured everything as you have laid it out, and there is no entities for the Homebridge Device (min: 13:20). As I'm rather new to this, is there a Log that I can view to see what issue it might be having communicating with the nest thermostat ? It acts as though everything is operating without any errors. I have no idea where I went wrong other than not setting anything up with a google account. I've always kept my nest and google separate.
So you are using the Nest account, are you following the instructions that the dev provided to get the Nest token? It definitely sounds like your HomeBridge cannot access the Nest Account. github.com/chrisjshull/homebridge-nest#using-a-nest-account
Looks like Portainer is no longer available in the add-on store, which is a big bummer because the "official" way isn't working for me... Am I missing something? My HA version info is below. Home Assistant 2022.10.2 Supervisor 2022.09.1 Operating System 9.0 Frontend 20221006.0 - latest
Did you see my pinned comment about this? You can add on another user’s version of Portainer, see: community.home-assistant.io/t/home-assistant-community-add-on-portainer/68836/176
@@ThisSmartHouse I paid the $5 for the official nest integration with home assistant, seems there Device Instance Rate Limit 5 QPM or 100 QPH , was curios if this method had that limitation
I'm really curious as to why that tv had to hang over the door opening like that, I mean why wouldn't you just move a bit to the other side, you can totally see better at that angle from the bed. Anyway I just saw it and thought I'd ask
It is articulating mount that connects to a single stud. I had moved it out like that because I sometimes have my logo on it during filming. It can fold against the outside wall or mostly on the bathroom wall if needed.
Does anyone have any experience with this integration working with the nest hello doorbell? I'm specifically interested to know if I can see a live feed, doorbell ring, person detection/package detection, etc.
No it looks like it should still be there. Here is a link to the forum post about the add-on: community.home-assistant.io/t/home-assistant-community-add-on-portainer/68836
Oddly enough this did not work for me and neither did the normal integration. It must have to do with being an FT account. The authorization token did not work it said. I did access my token and cookie from the ft website as well. However, they are in my normal google home account so there must be a way to grab the API.
I do think there are things you need to enable to let your external docker containers (things running on a different PC) have access to the outside world.
I just added a comment to that video. There are alternative versions of the docker add-on you can use. I might do a short update video, if I can find the time.
The problem with you needing to reauthenticate with the official integration is because your oauth consent screen is set to "Testing" instead of "Production" . See the integration troubleshooting. Glad you have a nest integration working, though, but want to make sure folks aren't getting incorrect information.
I figured I missed something. Thanks for clarifying. But come on that is the "official" way of integrating? Way to complicated. Plus it is missing a ton of features.
@@ThisSmartHouse yes, agreed, only so much I can do to simplify the documentation, given it's 40 steps or whatever. Anyway, glad you have something working you like.
@@ThisSmartHouse yes, I made the integration with the SDM API, and the docs for it. I did a small refresh on the documentation last week to make it slightly easier to follow, but the steps are still mostly the same (I did this when adding webrtc support for the new generation of nest cameras.)
Oh that's awesome! Sorry, I didn't mean any disrespect to your integration, my criticism was pointed toward Google. I don't know why Google / Nest can't play nicer with outside software like the old "works with nest". I will add a note about the "disconnecting" issue I had to the description, I must have missed that in the documentation the first time I went through it. Does your version now support the temperature sensors?
@@ThisSmartHouse Yes, I have installed the HomeBridge add on and can navigate to the web portal/interface. HomeBridge is running on a Docker container that is located on my Synology Nas. My Home Assistant is running on a raspberry pi 3. Same network, both over ethernet. I'm going to blow away my HomeBridge and re-install it. Also, thanks for the comment. I was kind of just complaining lol
I'm stuck on Step 3. The instructions look to be updated, and recommend using the new option in Homebridge that says "Google Account- Refresh Token". But for the life of me, I'm not understanding the instructions. Can you lend any help with that? Thank you!
@@ThisSmartHouse Yes, in the "HomeBridge Nest" section of HomeBridge, it Nows gives the option for Google Account- Refresh Token, and if you look at the Documentation, it now says to use the Refresh Token method. However, I have no idea what the instructions are explaining to me to do. If you could help explain how that works, where I should be going, that would be amazing!
My bad, this slipped my mind. I just looked at it and it seems like the method I showed in my video is still valid (there are two options for google accounts now). If you want to do the refresh key method it looks like you have to run a script as outlined here: github.com/chrisjshull/homebridge-nest#using-a-google-account . I think it will give you a URL to navigate to and from there you can generate the refresh token. If you don't want to go that way, just use the cookies method as outlined in the video.
3 года назад
At first I was very happy when I watched the video with detailed instructions, and then there was disappointment when I tried to install Portainer. :(
I should set up one of the new versions of portainer. I know the developers pulled it cuz they were afraid of people breaking their home assistant instance.
3 года назад+1
@@ThisSmartHouse I succeeded, Thank you for everything!
It still works, just skip the portainer stuff and install docker on the PC and run docker run --net=host --name=homebridge -v $(pwd)/homebridge:/homebridge oznu/homebridge:ubuntu Then follow the rest of the guide
So it looks like the devs have pulled the portainer add-on stating that it is too powerful and could render your home assistant instance unsupported. I guess this is because you can modify your core home assistant containers.
There are other versions of the portainer add on that you can run. Here is a link to a post that describes setting up another version. community.home-assistant.io/t/home-assistant-community-add-on-portainer/68836/176
Thanks for the update man! Works great as long as I connect to portainer through port 9000 rather then using the webui link in the addon section.
I am glad you found a workaround!
In reading the statement from the dev of discontinued portainer: "While this add-on is created and maintained with care and with security in mind, in the wrong or inexperienced hands, it could damage your system."
Should "damaging your system" be a concern with the alternate portainer version? If so, is there anything to mitigate the risk?
The reason that they post this is because you can go in and delete an add-on, or critical component of the home system containers. As long as you don't mess with the home assistant containers you should be okay.
Wow….. thank you for taking the time to get back to your followers …. Thank you for your support ….. I am definitely become a subscriber of your channel !!!! Awesome 🤩
I can’t tell you how happy I am I’ve found this video!! I was trying to add nest plugin to HomeBridge and didn’t have a clue what token etc to copy & paste. This worked perfectly. Thanks
You are welcome! It is crazy that it is still this hard.
So happy I found your video today. got all setup with the updated Portainer and both my Nest thermostats are now added to home assistant. Thanks! You have earned another subscriber.
Thanks for this video! I was confused about the authentication methods to complete my Nest Protect smoke detector setup in Homebridge but your video cleared up my confusion.
I just started with a fesh install of HA and this was the first thing I added.. THANK YOU so much for the tutorial.. Its nice to have my thermostat back in HA.
Awesome. Glad it was easy for you to set up. I'm so happy that there's such a strong smart home community to write these integrations.
I was really upset I couldnt get it to work without a public URL on the URI. This was the save and worked. Thank you a TON!
So glad it helped!!
I've been frustrated that I couldn't get my external Nest temp sensors into Home Assistant. Now you've fixed that for me....THANKS!!
I am right there with you. I am surprised the "official" method is missing such basic features. Glad it helped.
@@ThisSmartHouse With all the hoops to jump through for the "official" integration you would think it would be more full-featured.
Now I'm wondering about adding more things that have better HomeKit integration. I have some Eufy cameras and was able to add the plugin to Homebridge. The sensors came over into Home Assistant with no issues...but it deemed my Nest Plugin as unavailable. Is there an easy way to add as a second instance? One for Nest and one for Eufy?
Looks like setting each plugin as a child bridge is the answer. Woot!
So did you end up creating a home bridge for each plug-in?
@@ThisSmartHouse I was headed down that path...but I just updated the plugin bridge settings for each to set it as a child bridge. Home Assistant considers them separate bridges. At first I was a little confused because the QR Code for each child bridge did not include the access code. I thought I tried the code from the "master" bridge and it didn't work. But I messed around and retyped it for each plugin that Home Assistant recognized and it accepted both with the same code. Must have mis-typed the first time. They are nested in Home Assistant just like other integrations when you have multiple instances. Now they both work in Home Assistant.
I was a little scared as I got in to this, but I kept going and it worked ! Thanks your the man.
Glad I could help! It is easy once you have all of the information.
You're the best, I have seen a tutorial yesterday spent more than 2 hours to make it work and it didn't work, this tutorial is awesome.
Awesome. I am glad it worked for you!
Great integration and step by step video!
Also thanks for the shoutout. I’m Djames8585
Thanks Jamie! Hope it was helpful!
I didn't realize that was you!
Thank you so much I was off by a few things this was so helpful
Glad it helped!
Hi thank you very much. Can I use Aqara or other sensors to controle the rooms temperature and the nest together ?
Excellent walk through. I managed to do it before finding this video and was looking how to differentiate the entities from Nest Protects and I can verify what you said works if people have a second server on their network installing homebridge via docker there and access it just as you've described. HA will auto-discover whether it's installed on the HA or on a different device on the same subnet. Tip, ensure that the interface for discovery such is blank by default is changed to your network interface, usually eth0 on an rPi.
Excellent point. My main HA will see my test environment as long as they are on the same subnet.
Great. Tks a lot. Can I do the same step to add ring doorbell?
I need to test that integration. I have it set up via the home assistant integration, but I think the homebridge one is better.
@@ThisSmartHouse I did test. it is working great. Thank you so much.
That's awesome. Can you get live streaming from the cameras?
@@ThisSmartHouse yes sir.
Oh man, I will check it out! Thanks for the heads up!
Great job! FYI, my thermostat came through just fine, but I had to also add the Homebridge Nest Cam plugin to see my cameras. Looks like this may only work for the Thermostat and (and temp sensors).
Yeah I think it is limited to the non-camera devices. I think the protects come through with this integration. Glad it helped!
Same for me. I tried to add the Nest Cam plugin but I have not converted my Nest account to a Google account, am I out of luck?
I don't think the authentication method matters. I just don't know if the cameras are supported.
Does this still work? I cannot seem to get the homebridge in to Home Assistant
Ryan is this still working ?
Your video is excellent …. You Dona really nice job going step by step.
Before I spent the time, can you confirm that today this mechanism is still a recommendation ???
Yep it still works. I am still using the Home bridge integration to run my Nest thermostat. I am so glad the video helped. Let me know if you run into trouble.
Is there a way to still use this method? I am not having luck finding Portainer or a replacement.
Clear and helpfull tutorial, only one problem. You describe that homebridge will automatically appear in home assistant. That is not the case in my configuration. If I want to manually add it it cannot be found. How can I add it manually or get it to be found automatically?
You should be able to add it with the plus button in the integration menu.
@@ThisSmartHouse unfortunately not, thx for the reply though
So is home bridge not on the list?
@@ThisSmartHouse It wasn't. But now after a lot persistent trying etc It finally appeared. Next problem; it doesn't accept the pairing code.
You guys make it look so easy but somehow it is a struggle in my situation. For instance I tried what you showed at about 12:40 (adding integration) and I get a different screen. In the meantime the discovered homebridge dissappeared again, so frustrating. I'm starting to consider giving up ...
have had it up and running for months, today temperature hadnt updated, uninstalled and reinstalled now unable to get it set up using nest access token, getting the following message auth failed access token rejected unable to authenticate not sure what i have done wrong
Hey, I could not find my homebridge instance on home assistant. I tried using "Homekit controller" and my instance doesn't show up in the list. Does it not work if the instance is already connected to my iphone? Like will it not show itself as available to pair if the my phone already has connected to the bridge?
So you have already set up your HomeBridge? Can you access it via homeassistant.local:8581 ? If you have tried paring it to Home Assistant in the past and have removed it, there is a trick to getting it readded. I actually showed how to do this in my latest video, here is a link right to the section: ruclips.net/video/DUBvaNHpCIg/видео.html
@@ThisSmartHouse Yeah I have lots of experience using homebridge. I can't access it via the local url (I've never really understood why), but I can always access it via the actual address (192.168.XX.XX:8581). The link you sent implies that I have to nuke my existing hombridge --> Homekit setup. Is that right? So by deleting that instance, I'd be removing my phone's access? I guess the issue is that i've built up such an extensive network (especially with node red flows) that I'd be hesitant to do it all at once. I was hoping to be able to expose homebridge to home assistant and to homekit concurrently so that I could slowly and iteratively remove stuff. Any thoughts on that? I might try building out child bridges and seeing if I can do that iteratively...
Very good tutorial... Just a quick question, I have already had a homebridge server setup, is there a way to add this homebridge into the Home Assistant without doing the portainer way? Or, it must be through integration with Portainer? Thank you
No if you already have home bridge set up then your don't need to create a 2nd one. Just follow the steps after the install of home bridge (starting at installing the nest plug in). Home assistant should detect the home bridge install.
Thank you for your advice. I just check and see mine was not quite right. Homekit does show up in the integration windows, but it shows 2 doors 's locks (happen to be August) and the "HASS bridge" only while I have Nest Thermostat, sensors, doorbell, etc... no where to be seen!!! It seems that it shows Homeassistant instance instead of Homebridge. Is there a way that I can add the homebridge by specifying the IP address? My HA server is the virtual machine running HA OS. My Homebridge is installed on a Ubuntu server. Both are on the same network. Any hint is greatly appreciated
I actually test it myself. I can confirm that you need to install Homebridge via Portainer inside the HomeAssistant for it to be integrated. I just installed Portainer, setup Homebridge and voila, it shows up immediately on the HomeAssistant. But thank you again for the tutorial
Oh, just one last question, how do you update the Portainer inside HomeAssistant? Clicking the "Auto Update" feature does not seem to work. At the moment, there is newer version 2.9.2, and the one come with HA is 2.0.0. If I use the Terminal into the HA itself, running command "docker ps" would result in "bash Command not found"...
Does this still work for nest protect? Thanks.
Hi, could you please let me know how will I remove the HomeBridge?
You want to remove it completely? You can remove the container in Portainer.
Hi, does this method still work, now that Works With Nest is deprecated since 29 September 2023? I’m not familiar with Homebridge, so does their Nest plugin still work today?
If it still works, is this method able to report the Home and Away status of my Nest V3 thermostat to Home Assistant and set those?
This is still the method I use today.
@@ThisSmartHouse thanks a lot, I appreciate you took the time to answer! Do you know if the current home/away status of a nest thermostat is amongst the data this route can bring to HA?
I'm having issues with the homebridge plugin authentication following the instructions in this video; any idea if having dual authentication activated on my Google account makes any difference? I grab the issue token and cookie as instructed, restart homebridge and the log indicates Google authentication was unsuccessful. Any thoughts?
They have released another authentication method called refresh token, you can use either the method I showed or the new one. I have 2fa on my Google account and I have no problems with the cookie method.
Stuck at first step. Home Assistant 2022.10.4 no longer has a Supervisor selection. If I go to the Add In Store, searching for "port" does not show anything. Help!
A few versions ago they moved it to Settings > Add ons. Did you see my pinned post about it being removed from the regular store but being available as a community add on?
@@ThisSmartHouse Sorry, I did not see that. I did manage to install it and start it. When I click on "Open Web UI", it goes to a page that says app not running. When I go back to the app it has stopped.
Are there any configuration items that need to be set? Did you remove any other portainer? What type of device are you running on? Raspberry pi?
Turns out problem was I had Protection switched on. It is a RPI. Thanks for your help.
Any idea if this is just for the Homebridge nest plug-in or if it works for the nest-cam one too?
Unfortunately I don't have any Nest Cams. But looking at the underlying NPM package, I don't think so: www.npmjs.com/package/homebridge-nest
@@ThisSmartHouse yeah, i looked through it again, and the nest-cam one has a different login mechanism to the homebridge-nest one you used (which has a nest login option and a google / issue / cookie option). This is my first foray in a while back into this level of tinkering, so thanks for the help
Dude. Thank you so much for this excelent instruction video! It's a shame portainer is discontinued in HA so it seems :( gonna try and run home bridge on my Unraid NAS in a docker though :)
If you follow the link in the pinned comment, that version works great (someone created an alternative version).
@@ThisSmartHouse thanks, but I got the Home bridge working on my Unraid Nas as a docker. Just had to make sure it did not have a bridged IP but a fixed IP. Works as a charme so far. So thanks again!
Awesome
Hi..I've had this integration working fine until the recent update to HA 8.7 a few days ago. Now it shows entities as unavailable. Would you know that might be? Thanks, Paul
Did you get this sorted? Have you updated HomeBridge?
I have a specific problem maybe you can help with. First off, thank you for the video. I've been running this for a few weeks now and it's great. Except... Any time my power goes out, when home assistant restarts and everything is back up and running, the home assistant shows what the nest was at before the power went out. To fix this, I have to go into portainer each time and restart the homebridge stack/container and it updates it and gets it back on track again. Any idea how to fix this where I don't have to go into portainer each time to manually restart the container?
You might be able to delay the start of the docker container. Maybe this will help: forums.portainer.io/t/delay-portainer-or-container-start/553
I went with the Nest only route (min: 8:25). I have configured everything as you have laid it out, and there is no entities for the Homebridge Device (min: 13:20). As I'm rather new to this, is there a Log that I can view to see what issue it might be having communicating with the nest thermostat ? It acts as though everything is operating without any errors. I have no idea where I went wrong other than not setting anything up with a google account. I've always kept my nest and google separate.
So you are using the Nest account, are you following the instructions that the dev provided to get the Nest token? It definitely sounds like your HomeBridge cannot access the Nest Account. github.com/chrisjshull/homebridge-nest#using-a-nest-account
Looks like Portainer is no longer available in the add-on store, which is a big bummer because the "official" way isn't working for me... Am I missing something? My HA version info is below.
Home Assistant 2022.10.2
Supervisor 2022.09.1
Operating System 9.0
Frontend 20221006.0 - latest
Did you see my pinned comment about this? You can add on another user’s version of Portainer, see: community.home-assistant.io/t/home-assistant-community-add-on-portainer/68836/176
Does this still carry the API limitation of the "official" version?
Which limitation? I think this integration much more flexible. It even includes any temperature sensors that you have.
@@ThisSmartHouse I paid the $5 for the official nest integration with home assistant, seems there Device Instance Rate Limit 5 QPM or 100 QPH
, was curios if this method had that limitation
Great video, thank you.
I'm really curious as to why that tv had to hang over the door opening like that, I mean why wouldn't you just move a bit to the other side, you can totally see better at that angle from the bed. Anyway I just saw it and thought I'd ask
It is articulating mount that connects to a single stud. I had moved it out like that because I sometimes have my logo on it during filming. It can fold against the outside wall or mostly on the bathroom wall if needed.
@@ThisSmartHouse o that's cool
This is awesome - thanks.
You are welcome!
Any idea if this works with the new Nest thermostats that are configured through the Google Home app and not the Nest app?
I would assume so. My nest v3 is using the Google account method.
Excellent!
This is great...thanks!
You are welcome
Does anyone have any experience with this integration working with the nest hello doorbell? I'm specifically interested to know if I can see a live feed, doorbell ring, person detection/package detection, etc.
Portainer does not come up for me when I search for the add on. Did they get rid of it?
No it looks like it should still be there. Here is a link to the forum post about the add-on: community.home-assistant.io/t/home-assistant-community-add-on-portainer/68836
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Any idea if this will work if the account is a home.ft.nest account? or what changes may need to be made?
Oddly enough this did not work for me and neither did the normal integration. It must have to do with being an FT account. The authorization token did not work it said. I did access my token and cookie from the ft website as well. However, they are in my normal google home account so there must be a way to grab the API.
When I try to add the HomeKit Controller it keeps saying "Config flow could not be loaded" :(
Any solutions for this?
Are you struggling on the integrations page?
@@ThisSmartHouse I used a different machine with docker but apparently HA doesn't like that, now I used portainer on HA and it works.
I do think there are things you need to enable to let your external docker containers (things running on a different PC) have access to the outside world.
@@ThisSmartHouse Yeah it might be important to know how to do it since portainer is now decrepitated on HA
I just added a comment to that video. There are alternative versions of the docker add-on you can use. I might do a short update video, if I can find the time.
The problem with you needing to reauthenticate with the official integration is because your oauth consent screen is set to "Testing" instead of "Production" . See the integration troubleshooting. Glad you have a nest integration working, though, but want to make sure folks aren't getting incorrect information.
I figured I missed something. Thanks for clarifying.
But come on that is the "official" way of integrating? Way to complicated. Plus it is missing a ton of features.
@@ThisSmartHouse yes, agreed, only so much I can do to simplify the documentation, given it's 40 steps or whatever. Anyway, glad you have something working you like.
Did you write up the Nest integration documentation?
@@ThisSmartHouse yes, I made the integration with the SDM API, and the docs for it. I did a small refresh on the documentation last week to make it slightly easier to follow, but the steps are still mostly the same (I did this when adding webrtc support for the new generation of nest cameras.)
Oh that's awesome! Sorry, I didn't mean any disrespect to your integration, my criticism was pointed toward Google. I don't know why Google / Nest can't play nicer with outside software like the old "works with nest". I will add a note about the "disconnecting" issue I had to the description, I must have missed that in the documentation the first time I went through it.
Does your version now support the temperature sensors?
Portainer deprecated and now not available on hassio.
Did you see my posted comment? You can install a community edition version.
@@ThisSmartHouse now yes :) thx
@@ThisSmartHouse And it's works perfectly BIG THX
if now i can get the nest cams to work ... :)
Don't have any Nest cams or I would love to help.
@@ThisSmartHouse I spoke too soon, lost the connection, and now I can't reconnect. asking for new keys again.. you found a fix for this? thanks bud.
@igonzolv Where is it asking? In HomeBridge?
@@ThisSmartHouse redid it all, got it working again... :)
My home bridge doesn't show up
You have installed the HomeBridge add-on and cannot access the web interface? Or it doesn’t show up to add into Home Assistant as an integration?
@@ThisSmartHouse Yes, I have installed the HomeBridge add on and can navigate to the web portal/interface. HomeBridge is running on a Docker container that is located on my Synology Nas. My Home Assistant is running on a raspberry pi 3. Same network, both over ethernet. I'm going to blow away my HomeBridge and re-install it. Also, thanks for the comment. I was kind of just complaining lol
Thanks
You are welcome!
I'm stuck on Step 3. The instructions look to be updated, and recommend using the new option in Homebridge that says "Google Account- Refresh Token". But for the life of me, I'm not understanding the instructions. Can you lend any help with that? Thank you!
Let me take a look. So you say they updated the instructions?
@@ThisSmartHouse Yes, in the "HomeBridge Nest" section of HomeBridge, it Nows gives the option for Google Account- Refresh Token, and if you look at the Documentation, it now says to use the Refresh Token method. However, I have no idea what the instructions are explaining to me to do. If you could help explain how that works, where I should be going, that would be amazing!
I will take a look tonight and let you know. I will just remove it on my test environment and try adn add it again.
@@ThisSmartHouse Any Luck?
My bad, this slipped my mind. I just looked at it and it seems like the method I showed in my video is still valid (there are two options for google accounts now). If you want to do the refresh key method it looks like you have to run a script as outlined here: github.com/chrisjshull/homebridge-nest#using-a-google-account .
I think it will give you a URL to navigate to and from there you can generate the refresh token. If you don't want to go that way, just use the cookies method as outlined in the video.
At first I was very happy when I watched the video with detailed instructions, and then there was disappointment when I tried to install Portainer. :(
Did you try the alternative version I posted? I know the devs removed the original portainer.
@@ThisSmartHouse I saw it but I didn't try it, it seemed too complicated, but I'll try it tomorrow. Thanks
I should set up one of the new versions of portainer. I know the developers pulled it cuz they were afraid of people breaking their home assistant instance.
@@ThisSmartHouse I succeeded, Thank you for everything!
That is great news!
This is insane. HomeBridge by itself is a clusterf. Using it as a proxy into Home Assistant is madness.
Works fine for me. It is about the only way to get all Nest thermostat controls in home assistant.
It still works, just skip the portainer stuff and install docker on the PC and run
docker run --net=host --name=homebridge -v $(pwd)/homebridge:/homebridge oznu/homebridge:ubuntu
Then follow the rest of the guide
You can also install an alternative portainer add-on instead of the official one that's gone now. But yep, you can also run on another machine!