Use Home Assistant to Help Manage your Backyard Garden with a Local Rain Gauge
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
- Nothing beats fresh tomatoes and cucumbers from a garden. But the challenge is ensuring your veggies get just the right amount of water when you have zero control over the rain. You could use a cloud-based rain gauge for this, but if you want the most accurate sensor you are going to need to get local.
So in this video we are going to add an Acurite Rain Gauge to Home Assistant, and setup an automation to remind us to water when the garden needs it. So stick around, because we are going to automate some boring stuff.
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Nice use of Utility meter! Will definitely use this when I finally decide to integrate my LaCross WS.
Yeah, I love that Home Assistant allows you to use sensors for purposes they may not have been designed for. haha. I'm using it for my lightning strike counter too now. So much easier than having to engineer a solution for tracking the difference between two points in time.
thanks for learning me the utility_meter, was setting up a TFA Dostman DROP and only got the totals working.
I have been fight with trying to get daily rain fall to work and your video got me up and working.
I did notice that it will only show the total from the time you started/built the utility.
I will test it tomorrow since we will have rain here for the next week.
Thanks🙂
Yep. That is true. Only shows from when it starts running. I also have an automation that stores the daily total to a mqtt topic so I can track yearly rainfall.
You moving away from packages in Home Assistant? Would be interested in hearing more about why you went with them and why to are going away from them. Also what does it take to switch. I tried moving some existing automations to a package and found the move painful and ended up doing some manual editing of Home Assistant configuration files. (I have may have done this the wrong way.) As soon as I couldn't see the traces I moved them back. Like the idea of packages since I like the idea of grouping related items together but like traces even more. I also couldn't find a way of moving templates to a package.
Well, honestly, I went tight them because in the beginning ti was easy for me to take others config and just drop it in mine and not have to worry about splitting up automations, scripts, and helpers and pasting them in the correct file on my system. And really thats what it would take to switch back. Just copying all of the automations and pasting them in the automation.yaml file. But packages make it easy for me to edit the automations quickly. I know which file to go to and can edit them faster that it would take to navigate through the UI to them. The traces are good and one of the reasons I wanted to get away from packages. But I also like the easier way to layout my config.So I dont know that I will ever get completely away from them. They do make it easier to share the code with others. Just download my package, drop it in your package directory, edit the entities, and then reload the config.
any idea how to set up some similar for wind gust?
Cool Jeff, could you not use a sonoff RF brigde?
I suspect you could. I haven't tested that yet. But as long as you have 433 mhz devices I think it would work. I might have to get one and try it.
Having issues with this. Out of no where my rain totals will jump to large numbers. I thought it might be the retain setting so I turned it off but it is still happening. Any clue as to why?
Did you update the add-on recently? I know I was messing around with the definitions for autodiscovery a while back and I had been converting to inches, but modified it to report in native mm and added a config option in the add-on to change it. I have also noticed that mine would fluxautte if my kid was throwing a ball against the fence since the little mechanism that measures the rain in the self emptying one is simply a little lever that flips back and forth. Also, I have had it stop reporting because a spider got in in a webbed up the lever so it could move to record the rain. Not sure I have answers, but I'm hoping it was due to you just applying an update.
Will this work with the weather stations aswell or not?
I can’t say for sure it will get every device or sensor. But it does work with weather stations. I know the Atlas series works.
Curious, still using this? Any updates?
I’m still using it. I haven’t had a lot of time to work on the add on but I’m still using it and the rain gauge.