I'm loving this video series, it really helps with discovering stuff we could use but never tought about

@BeardedTinker

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! I really do spend ours each week to try and find interesting one that don't require any extra devices or service and could be used by everyone. But it's so much fun.

After 2 years of using my HA it became so slow, that I was about to reinstall it from the scratch. The last resort: I removed ALL CUSTOM COMPONENTS. Result? My HA is LIKE NEW without any issues at all. I narrowed it down to the custom components that were for lovelace - big number, charts etc. I moved all my dashboards to the built in HA cards and installed just few custom cards with thorough checking the outcome. My point is: all is great but one has to understand: slowness, errors in logs, RESTARTING of the client applications (i.e. on iOS) - all this is NOT due to HA - all was due to IMPROPERLY coded custom components. And my HA is on really good machine: 16GB RAM, 8 CPUs assigned, 2.5Gbps NIC. Nothing helped until I removed the ... what I described above. One additional information about my setup: 120+ MQTT devices, 100+ ESPHome devices, 50+ Zigbee devices and so on.

@BeardedTinker

4 ай бұрын

I've just added NVME drives to Synology and speed of everything is 10-15x faster. But you're right - everything that's getting added in HA has impact on performance. That's why I do clean a not used components and integrations few times per year. And most of the stuff I do video is only used on recording setup. Only some end up on my main system.

@zyghom

4 ай бұрын

@@BeardedTinker exactly: there is a difference when you install custom components on LAB system with 5 devices, vs Production, where you can have 300. Of course I use NVMe in my setup (all in Proxmox) and Ryzen 7 with 64GB RAM in total and 2x 2TB NVMe.

Thank you! That MeasureIt integration is amazing. It simplifies so much of that process.

@BeardedTinker

4 ай бұрын

Awesome, glad it was helpful!

Great video, the average sensor is kickass! We have public heating in my bloc and they always turn it on after an average of below 10 degrees for 3 nights in a row. I have input these values into an automation which always starts my home heating at the same time every year so that I don't even bother touching the thermostat, ever.

@BeardedTinker

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing - that's great use case for it!!!

Loving these gems, BT! So much to try out on my dashboards!

@BeardedTinker

4 ай бұрын

Glad you like them! Thank you Aaron!!! Just be careful to not overdue it :D Had to do major cleanup of my recording setup :)

Excellent, very good video today, three new integrations I will be using in the future, thanks for sharing!

@BeardedTinker

4 ай бұрын

You're very welcome! Glad it was helpful!!!!

Thank you for your recommendations! 👍🏽 there are a LOT of things to look at on HACS, but I’m trying to install as little things as possible. A little update on my first week of HA, I’ve got some contact sensors and motion sensors automating the lights in my basement, which tend to get left on for longer periods of time than they should. I’ve climate-controlled my smaller room using a small space heater and a temp/humidity/pressure sensor, and only when my location is “Home.” I also hooked up a vibration sensor to my piano, and changed the sensitivity to the minimum value, and I’m using it for simple automations like turning on the lights for me at night, and tracking if/how long I’ve played for that day. Having a LOT of fun. 🤩

@BeardedTinker

4 ай бұрын

That's really awesome! You should start small with things that you've automated. Things that have immediate effects such as light or heating. And slowly add on top of that.

Nice to see I’m not the only one with a million discovered battery notes 😂

@BeardedTinker

4 ай бұрын

Yeah 😂😂😂 and those left are ones that actually don't exist anymore but we're left hanging as entities somewhere

@sriprasad22

4 ай бұрын

​@@BeardedTinkeryep I think we can remove it from .storage folder config file

@AndrewJacksonUK

4 ай бұрын

@@BeardedTinker to tidy these up you can go into configuration/battery notes and delete the battery notes device from the list. You can also add enable_autodiscovery: false under battery_notes: in your configuration.yaml if you have a frequently changing test machine.

Great video. HACS has some great add-ons. I hope you do more like these.

@BeardedTinker

4 ай бұрын

Thank you!!! More to come!

Again another integration I can use, thanks! Again love these videos

@BeardedTinker

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! I really love exploring them!

Love these HACS gems BT. Keep them coming👍🏻

@BeardedTinker

4 ай бұрын

Thanks! Will do!

Did you get MeasureIT to work with a count example ? - ie how many times the front door opens - can you share your config ? (I got the kitchen lights on demo to work as per your video) - thanks for posting

Thanks for sharing.

@BeardedTinker

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching Ron!

I like these. Keep 'em up!

@BeardedTinker

4 ай бұрын

Thanks, will do!

Thank you!

@BeardedTinker

4 ай бұрын

You're welcome!!!

Another HACS gems. thanks for the video

@BeardedTinker

4 ай бұрын

Glad you like them Adi! Thanks for the comment!!!

@adifoto6362

4 ай бұрын

@@BeardedTinker You are welcome. Thanks

Dobardan, another great video. Do you plan to make video to integrate google maps data or better yet how to set up icloud3 thanks

@BeardedTinker

4 ай бұрын

For Google Maps - not really. Problem is cookies. They do expire from time to time and it's just so boring to recreate/copy them. As for icloud3, it's on my todo list.

@Zeki-Gokce

4 ай бұрын

@@BeardedTinker thanks for the answer. Good feedback on google maps. Looking forward to your icloud3 video. I will also check traccar.

I really like this format

@BeardedTinker

4 ай бұрын

Thank you!!!

Would love to understand the difference between MeasureIt and the History Stats built in. Is it the conditioning, or something else?

@BeardedTinker

4 ай бұрын

It's different - history saves all of the entities states. While measure it will record state based on condition and create entity out of it. You could do same thing with current state of the sensor, ut it requires really long templates to do so and is done in YAML, this is done in UI and speeds the process.

UPDATE: Solved. Just create an mqtt: section in main configuration.yaml. ZigBee map: I'm not running HA OS so don't have the MQTT.yaml in my config. I'm running core. Do I just create this file? and add it as an include in my configuration.yaml file?

@BeardedTinker

4 ай бұрын

Awesome! You got it working before I answered. But yes, no matter if docker or HA OS, you just need the mqtt section with sensors under it.

Also on the measure it integration, is it possible to show the data in a graph or something?

@BeardedTinker

4 ай бұрын

Sure. It's available as numerical value and can be added to the graph

@michaelthompson657

4 ай бұрын

@@BeardedTinker I don’t think I’ve done many graphs before, can you quickly explain how to them? I’m sure it’s easy

@BeardedTinker

4 ай бұрын

Try this (it's using a mini graph card from HACS) In the dashboard, 3 dots, edit the dashboard click on the add card and select Manual card. Replace with this: type: custom:mini-graph-card entities: - sensor.kitchen_lights_are_on_day Of course, you'll need to replace the sensor name with one you got

@michaelthompson657

4 ай бұрын

@@BeardedTinker thanks! I think I got it working but I’ll definitely give this a try 👍🏻

Just as a heads-up: There’s a very minor typo in one of the chapter names (“Keep Tests in Tabs” → “Keep Texts in Tabs”).

@BeardedTinker

4 ай бұрын

Thank yo! Will fix it in a sec!

MeasureIT does not keep data when you restart HA.

@BeardedTinker

4 ай бұрын

Are you sure? All the data was retained after restart here - even previous period.

@Tntdruid

4 ай бұрын

@@BeardedTinker Looks like the dev fixed it.

@BeardedTinker

4 ай бұрын

Looks like it. It's keeping all of the sensor date. Did few restarts and it's still here.

are you croatian?

@BeardedTinker

4 ай бұрын

Yes, I am

@marcosmartinezgarcia

4 ай бұрын

@@BeardedTinker Znam ljude iz Hrvatske s istim prezimenom (Broz). Žive blizu Klanjca. Možda ih poznajete. Inače sam Španjolac. Oh i jako dobar video. Volim Home Assistant. Koristim ga kod kuće zadnjih pet godina.

@BeardedTinker

4 ай бұрын

Hvala puno! Ne znam nikoga u Klanjcu, ali ima dosta s istim prezimenom! Lijepo za čuti - nadam se da Home Assistant služi svrsi!