This is the first channel I found that explains scripts. Appreciate it, good Sir!

Another informative video. Love the way you tie your videos together👍

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Thx!

Just started looking at Helpers. Thank you!!!! Using a SmartPlug to smarten up my Washer and Dryer by monitoring the energy output and changing a Text dropdown status (Idle, Running, Stopped).

@SmartHomeJunkie

3 жыл бұрын

Great idea! Have to create a helper like that myself 👍🏻

Great video. Thank you very much for your work.

I never thought of using Helpers that way. Excellent video

@SmartHomeJunkie

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Enjoy the use of Helpers!!!

Awesome videos! Thank you so much for everything you do!

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Gerhard for your support!

so simple and useful. thank you!

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Great video, easy to understand. Thanks a lot.

@SmartHomeJunkie

9 ай бұрын

Thank you. It's quite an old video already. I might create an updated version in a while.

Great video, clear and concise explanation. Subbed..

@SmartHomeJunkie

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your support!

Excellent video. Good description of helpers. It filled in some of the gaps so I was able to rewatch and understand other videos. Thanks so much.

@SmartHomeJunkie

3 жыл бұрын

Good to hear! Glad that it helped in understanding Home Assistant a little bit better.

@zaneroy1255

3 жыл бұрын

i realize it is kinda off topic but does anyone know a good website to stream new tv shows online?

@hamzapaxton7673

3 жыл бұрын

@Zane Roy flixportal :D

@zaneroy1255

3 жыл бұрын

@Hamza Paxton Thank you, signed up and it seems to work =) Appreciate it !

@hamzapaxton7673

3 жыл бұрын

@Zane Roy you are welcome =)

Extremely usefull video. Thank you.

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

In extrenely happy to hear that ;)

Excellent!!!

@SmartHomeJunkie

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Super video, really good intruction. Now I can set the time of my coffee machine to startup in the morning Awesome. Thanks!

@SmartHomeJunkie

3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant! You're welcome.

@michiel2797

3 жыл бұрын

Hi @@SmartHomeJunkie Ik heb een vraagje. Hoe stel ik een helper in die er voor zorgt dat mijn airco uitgaat, na laat ons zeggen 30 minuten? Ik heb een automatisering die deze normaal gezien uitzet bij het behalen van een temperatuur in de ruimte maar stel nou, ik heb het nog steeds warm en ik wil hem nog een uurtje laten draaien. Ik kom er niet uit. PS het koffie apparaat aanzetten wert nog steeds fantastisch. Ok ok for the English folks among us ;-) Hi @Smart Home Junkie. I have a wee question. How do I create a helper that makes my AIrcon turn off after, lets say 30 minutes? I have an automation that normally turns it off after it has attained a cdrtain temperature in the room where it's located but lets assume I am stil warm and I would like to keep it running for another hour. I am not coming out of it. PS the Coffee machine turn on helper is stil brilliant.

@SmartHomeJunkie

3 жыл бұрын

I would say create a boolean helper for instance with the name "keep_airco_running" and create an entity card in lovelace to switch this helper on and off. In the conditions of your automation that turns the helper off you can then check if this helper is turned off. If so, the airco is switched off by your automation. If the helper is on, the airco will keep running until you turn it off manually.

Impressive!

@SmartHomeJunkie

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad it helped.

Weer netjes uitgelegd. Zitten nog wel weer wat handige tips tussen voor Huizebruin.

@SmartHomeJunkie

3 жыл бұрын

Top!

Gracias, from the Dominican Rep

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

Wow!!!

Thanks

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you too!

Thank you very much for this (again) vey helpful explenations :) 2 point where I still struggle: - I want to inegrate a number helper (slider +/- 60 Minutes ) to customize a shutter to open at sunset +/- silider position - My shutter needs to get a shutter percentage that I can set in the automation - but I would like to input there a helper value

@SmartHomeJunkie

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your kind words. I think this should work of your shutter has an attribute for the percentage which you can find out through the developer tools->states. Then set this attribute to the value of the helper just as how the video demonstrates. Maybe you need a bit of yaml for this.

I've been following your videos since a awhile, and I'm using your tips in many ocasions. I'm very grateful for that. Tks. Addictionaly, I would like to question you if I can use helpers (toggle) to reset my smoke detectors. My smoke detetctors needs to cut off the power source after an alarm situation, even if they aren't in presence of the smoke. I'm using a relay which I manually control in lovelace, to restart the system. Do you think that I can avoid the relay using the helpers or absolutely I can't?

@SmartHomeJunkie

3 жыл бұрын

I think you can, but I'm not totally sure how your exact setup looks like.

Great video. I have a question but I’m not sure it fits in Helpers or another part of HA. My electric heating is (still) based on accumulation overnight and I have a switch to control start/stop of the loading and a sensor for the outdoor temperature. I want to calculate a duration time for the loading process based on the outdoor temperature and use this in an automation. Any idea how to realise this?

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

I think this can be done, but it's more advanced using a combination of automations and helpers.

Erg goed uitgelegd. Kon gelijk horen dat ik met een Nederlander te maken heb! Maar je Engels is compleet ! Je legt het perfect uit. Welk systeem gebruik je voor je radiotors? Ik ben benieuwd hoe je dit regelt met de temperatuur. Ik ben ook verder erg blij dat ik helpers beter kan inzetten met nieuwe opties. De optie bestond al heel lang maar gebruikte het amper. Zo ben ik ook steeds meer automatiseringen in scripts gaan onderbrengen. Zie ook graag nog een video over scenes. Ik ben nu lid van je kanaal. Bedankt voor al je nieuwe inspiraties

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Ik gebruik Honeywell Evohome en sure dat aan via HA. Maar... Evohome zelf heeft betere lerende algoritmes om te verwarmen.

Great videos! I always use them to learn more about HA. Now I have watch this, I wanted to setup my climate control to use helpers as you explained. Now adding this: service: climate.set_temperature data_template: entity_id: - climate.lodge temperature: | (( states.('input_number.day_temp') )) to my automation, returns the error: expected float for dictionary value @ data['temperature'] Any idea please?

@SmartHomeJunkie

3 жыл бұрын

Great to hear that you already found the solution!

Can I use the same helper in different automations? Great vid btw (again!)

@SmartHomeJunkie

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, you can and that is also what makes it so powerful! See for instance this video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/np-B0aeKndbXec4.html

Great video ... nice learning new stuff in HA. I am trying this in a slightly different way. I want to turn a smart plug on when the temperature of a sensor goes below a certain value. this value should be defined by the helper as in your example. yaml -> alias: heat on off description: '' trigger: - type: temperature platform: device device_id: 8773296105ec409bf965ba3e790724a5 entity_id: sensor.temp_sensor_guest_room_2 domain: sensor below: 15 condition: [] action: - type: turn_on device_id: f78ad064af4a003572bbf0f7870319c1 entity_id: switch.on_off_plug_in_unit_17 domain: switch mode: single how to set the 'below' parameter (hardcoded at 15 at the moment) to read the value from the helper? Your example returns an error. Thanks Dan

Would it be possible to use a pressure sensor underneath your matrass (to detect if you are going to bed) and then take the current time value and use that as the helper time? That would result in just hitting the bed and everything would turn off, that would be awesome :D

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, that should work. You could also use an aqara vibration sensor maybe?

Great video. I'm trying to figure out if it is possible to create a helper or similar to use a smart plug without power monitoring to calculate the energy usage. I use the smart plugs in automations, and HA knows how long the plug is on or off. Having a electrical heater with know power connected to such a plug will enable HA to calculate the energy usage when knowing the duty cycle and manually inputting the heaters power. I have tried to set up a helper to do this, but the smart plug do not show up as a input sensor in the "Add utility meter", so I am kind of stuck. Thanks for any advice if you have any input to this.

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

I think you can do this by creating a template sensor.

@geirvalsvik1780

Жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie Thanks, yes I experemented with that and it is for sure a possible way to do it. However, now I found a powerful HACS integration that does everyting I'm looking for: PowerCalc. For me who do not have any Smart switches with power/energy monitoring it is a fantastic tool. It will create sensors for power and energy and can also create daily, weekly and monthly entities if wanted. I can add a constant power usage to a plug or use more advanced power schemes. It has look up database for power usage of a ton of different devices. The energy entities can be used in the HA Energy Dashboard to give full overview of the energy usage. PowerCalc is a truly wonderful add on and I highly recommend it. All the best.

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

@@geirvalsvik1780 Oh yes! Why didn't I think about that? 🤪 Thanks for reminding me!!!

I'm here again asking help to you. I'm using several D1mini in my home automations. As some GPIO's are pullup and pulldown on boot, and as I'm using all I/O's I must create a power-on delay timer to supply some devices, in order to not affect the boot of microcontrollers. So far, I have the power-on delay timer independently of the microcontroler, and runs well, but I think that HA can handle this delay timer internally with a switch. How can I achive that with a timer and an automation? Any tip?

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry for my late reaction, but I'm afraid I cannot help you.

Never used helpers but this could make me move some node red stuff over.

@SmartHomeJunkie

3 жыл бұрын

Great that it helped understanding what you can use helpers for.

Goeie video weer !! Er zit wel een jengeltje in het geluid, misschien om volgende keer een clip on mic gebruiken

@SmartHomeJunkie

3 жыл бұрын

Thx! Fijn als het een beetje helpt.

@SmartHomeJunkie

3 жыл бұрын

Wat bedoel je met een jengeltje? Ik hoor dat namelijk niet. Clip on mic was besteld en geleverd, maar helaas was die defect bij aankomst, dus doe ik het nog even met mijn Rode Procaster. 😊

I had hoped to use your example to trigger an automation based on the current date/time versus date/time stored in a helper I created. The logic would be "Do X unless the date/time in Y is within Z seconds of the current time. The use-case is whether motion in front of a door was triggered by an arrival (camera motion sensing suggesting a package delivery) or us, opening the door and going to get the package. Not sure how to achieve this. Can you point me in the right direction? Thanks!

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

Hi! Interesting use case! As far as I understand, you want to open the door based on motion,unless it's a certain date and time. I would say, do the date time test in the condition of the automation. Not sure if I understood your question correctly.

@SBinVancouver

Жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie yes, mostly. The logic would be "if camera motion was detected, announce package delivery, unless the front door was recently opened suggesting that we're going outside to get a package]". I created a date-time helper ("input_datetime.ov_entranceway_door_last_opened") and updated it when the door is opened, but am not sure how to compare the current time against that within an automation.

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

@@SBinVancouver Ah yes, you can do that using template code, but it's always tricky. I am allways struggling with this too.

@SBinVancouver

Жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie found a solution (with some help from you, and Facebook)... {{ state_attr('input_datetime.ov_entranceway_door_last_opened','timestamp')|int - now().timestamp()|int}} returns an integer value representing the elapsed time between the helper value and the current time.

Hey Man so i have a problem with my smart home, We installed some smart bulbs in our house and use a google home mini to control them, and my family dosent want to use voice or the phone to control the lights. So do you have any device that can control smartlights without hubs and over wifi, Like buttons or switches. Also i live in India so it has to be available overhere , Love Your videos By the way😁

@SmartHomeJunkie

3 жыл бұрын

Well, I prefer to use Zigbee instead of WiFi. I use the Conbee stick 2 to connect all the Zigbee bulbs, sensors and switches.

Is there a way to set a default value for when a reboot occurs?

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, you can do that with an automation that sets the value on the start home assistant trigger

Has something changed since this video was uploaded? I tried setting my target temperature based on an input number helper, but when I save, and go back, the value for temperature changes from: {{ states('sensor.target_temp') }} to: "[object Object]": null and the automation doesn't update my thermostat's target temperature. The sensor.target_temp is a min/max input helper that takes the minimum of the desired target temperatures set by different automations.

@EvenTheDogAgrees

5 ай бұрын

Yup, turns out the syntax was incorrect, somehow. What worked for me was the following: service: climate.set_temperature metadata: {} data: temperature: "{{ states('sensor.target_temp') }}" target: entity_id: climate.dining_room

The material you cover is great. Especially, showing the yaml code. However, the flow of demonstration jumps around a lot, kind of ad lib. Yes, I gleaned some insights, but, maybe a little more prep and outline would help your viewers understand more easily .

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback. This is a really old video. My new videos are way more structured.

Vraagje: Ik heb een windmeter dat meet in m/s. Is er een manier omdat middels 12 grenswaarden om te zetten naar Beaufort (bft) ?

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Vast wel. Dat zou met een custom sensor kunnen denk ik. Daar ga ik ook nog een video van maken.

@LeodeWaij

2 жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie Ik ondertussen 12 grenswaarden gedefinieerd waarmee de aanwezige windsterkte wordt geselecteerd.

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

@@LeodeWaij Wat goed!!!

is there a way to use a helper's value in a trigger?

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Yes there is. See this video for an example: How to Combine BUTTONS and AUTOMATIONS in Home Assistant - Tutorial kzread.info/dash/bejne/pYKh0dCup5ereNI.html

It was driving me crazy! i could not figure out why this did not work for me. I have now found out my home assistant on my raspberry pi has an incorrect internal time? its set to utc but i live in Belgium. so utc +2. Any ideas why this is and how to change it? When i put in the helper 2h before i want the automation to run it runs. So i imput 16h00 and it triggers at 18h00

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

I think you can set the correct timezone in your configuration.yaml.

Why didn't you configure the temperature helper better by reducing the range and setting the units? Are there advantages or disadvantages why one would of would not do this?

@SmartHomeJunkie

3 жыл бұрын

No, just a choice. You can configure it the way you want.

Great channel. Are you planning to do new videos?

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! Last year was a mad house. Just picked up creating new videos again.

Why don't you use regex for all the climate entities in the turn all valves to the set temp? So like climate.* (Should work right?) This would declutter the yaml. (Or isnt this possible in a script)

@SmartHomeJunkie

3 жыл бұрын

To be honest, I wasn't aware that this is possible. So thank you. I've learned something today.

I have a question, how can I modify a binary sensor helper?

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

What exactly do you mean with "modify".

@charlesromney

2 жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkieI created a helper to track a period of time during the day. Now, I need to change it for another time frame . I tryied to modify the hours using the developer tools , but my changes were not saved.

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

@@charlesromney Not sure what you mean. Helpers cannot be changed through the developer tools. You can change the helper in settings - devices & services - helpers.

@charlesromney

2 жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie Thanks for the help. 👍🏼

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

@@charlesromney No problem

confusing.

@SmartHomeJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

Uhm okay? How can I help to make it less confusing?

You're audio is very bad.. It's very difficult to understand between all those S

@SmartHomeJunkie

Жыл бұрын

It's a very old video. Check my newer ones. The quality has improved massively.