These Add-ons are a some pet projects I've been working on in my spare time. I may not be using some of the best practices for Home Assistant so if there's anything I can do to improve these feel free to create a comment, issue, or pull request.
Follow the official instructions on the Home Assistant website and use the following URL:
https://github.com/jgoakley/hassio-addonsThis addon lets you run Home Assistant inside Home Assistant! Home Assistant Inception!
If you are running Home Assistant OS this addon will create an entirely new Home Assistant core instance that runs alongside your existing instance.
By default the new instance will be available at <your_ha_address>:8124 but the port can be updated in the configuration tab.
Since Home Assistant does not currently have a great way to create user-specific dashboards this allows you to customize a separate HA instance for another set of users.
For example: You host an Airbnb and would like to give a guest the ability to control a subset of smart home devices but you would like to retain a separate dashboard with full control.
Uses the WeeWX Library and MQTT to receive data from a weather station. Weather stations such as the AcuRite 01036M (the only one I have tested this with) have a USB B-mini port in the display unit that receives the signal from the weather station. Plugging a USB cable from the display into your Home Assistant machine should show a device when running the lsusb command. If you are using a Home Assistant OS you should be able to use the SSH addon to connect to your Home Assistant instance and run the command from there:
~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 24c0:0003
For my AcuRite weather station it shows up as "Chaney Instrument" in some utilities (but for some reason not the lsusb command)
{
"driver": "weewx.drivers.acurite",
"latitude": 12.345678,
"longitude": -12.345678,
"altitude": 123,
"altitudeUnit": "foot",
"location": "Location String for WeeWX",
"units": "us",
"mqttUser": "MQTTUserName",
"mqttPassword": "MQTTPassword"
}
Here is an example of some Home Assistant configuration.yaml entries for sensors that can be used for an AcuRite 01036M weather station. Each sensor is published with the MQTT channel of "weather" and set to US units. These should probably be configurable and included in the settings above but I haven't got around to that yet.
sensor:
- platform: mqtt
state_topic: "weather/windSpeed_mph"
name: "Wind Speed"
unit_of_measurement: 'mph'
value_template: "{{ value | round(1) }}"
icon: "mdi:weather-windy-variant"
- platform: mqtt
state_topic: "weather/windGust_mph"
name: "Wind Gust"
unit_of_measurement: 'mph'
value_template: "{{ value | round(1) }}"
icon: "mdi:weather-windy"
- platform: mqtt
state_topic: "weather/outTemp_F"
name: "Outdoor Temperature"
unit_of_measurement: 'F'
device_class: 'temperature'
value_template: "{{ value | round(1) }}"
icon: "mdi:thermometer"
- platform: mqtt
state_topic: "weather/humidex_F"
name: "Humidex"
unit_of_measurement: 'F'
device_class: 'temperature'
value_template: "{{ value | round(1) }}"
icon: "mdi:thermometer"
- platform: mqtt
state_topic: "weather/heatindex_F"
name: "Heat Index"
unit_of_measurement: 'F'
device_class: 'temperature'
value_template: "{{ value | round(1) }}"
icon: "mdi:thermometer"
- platform: mqtt
state_topic: "weather/outHumidity"
name: "Outdoor Humidity"
unit_of_measurement: '%'
value_template: "{{ value | round(1) }}"
icon: "mdi:water-percent"
- platform: mqtt
state_topic: "weather/barometer_inHg"
name: "Air Pressure"
unit_of_measurement: "inHg"
value_template: "{{ value | round(3) }}"
icon: "mdi:gauge"
- platform: mqtt
state_topic: "weather/windDir"
name: "Wind Direction"
unit_of_measurement: "degrees"
value_template: "{{ value | round(1) }}"
icon: "mdi:compass"
- platform: mqtt
state_topic: "weather/windGustDir"
name: "Wind Gust Direction"
unit_of_measurement: "degrees"
value_template: "{{ value | round(1) }}"
icon: "mdi:compass"
- platform: mqtt
state_topic: "weather/rainRate_inch_per_hour"
name: "Rain Rate"
unit_of_measurement: "in/hour"
value_template: "{{ value | round(4) }}"
icon: "mdi:weather-rainy"
- platform: mqtt
state_topic: "weather/rain_in"
name: "Rain"
unit_of_measurement: "in"
value_template: "{{ value | round(4) }}"
icon: "mdi:weather-rainy"
- platform: mqtt
state_topic: "weather/hourRain_in"
name: "Hour Rain"
unit_of_measurement: "in"
value_template: "{{ value | round(4) }}"
icon: "mdi:weather-rainy"
- platform: mqtt
state_topic: "weather/dayRain_in"
name: "Day Rain"
unit_of_measurement: "in"
value_template: "{{ value | round(4) }}"
icon: "mdi:weather-rainy"
- platform: mqtt
state_topic: "weather/rain24_in"
name: "24 Hour Rain"
unit_of_measurement: "in"
value_template: "{{ value | round(4) }}"
icon: "mdi:weather-rainy"
- platform: mqtt
state_topic: "weather/rain_total"
name: "Rain Total"
unit_of_measurement: "in"
value_template: "{{ value | multiply(0.3937) | round(4) }}"
icon: "mdi:weather-rainy"
- platform: mqtt
state_topic: "weather/dateTime"
name: "WeeWX Timestamp"
unit_of_measurement: "s"
value_template: "{{ value }}"
I believe there are even more sensors values that can be used but these are the ones that were useful to me. If everything is working correctly when the Addon is running every couple minutes or so you should receive a "loop" message in the log tab that looks like this:
LOOP: 2021-04-02 13:56:17 EDT (1617386177) appTemp: 40.7389595009, channel: None, cloudbase: 8387.86618664, dateTime: 1617386177, dewpoint: 13.4533887788, heatindex: 47.5, humidex: 47.5, maxSolarRad: None, outHumidity: 25, outTemp: 47.5, outTempBatteryStatus: 0, rainRate: 0, rssi: 3, rxCheckPercent: 100.0, sensor_battery: 0, sensor_id: 1392, usUnits: 1, windchill: 47.5, windSpeed: 2.16448979085
REC: 2021-04-02 13:56:00 EDT (1617386160) altimeter: 30.5110888228, appTemp: 37.6812960635, barometer: 30.5393497982, channel: None, cloudbase: 8447.17015613, dateTime: 1617386160.0, dewpoint: 11.842451313, ET: None, heatindex: 46.15, humidex: 46.15, inTemp: 76.19, interval: 1, maxSolarRad: None, outHumidity: 24.5, outTemp: 46.15, outTempBatteryStatus: 0.0, pressure: 29.8123680055, rain: 0.0, rain_total: 6.5786, rainRate: 0.0, rssi: 3.0, rxCheckPercent: 100.0, sensor_battery: 0.0, sensor_id: 1392.0, usUnits: 1, windchill: 43.727635697, windDir: 225.0, windGust: 5.76509625064, windGustDir: None, windrun: 40.5201561234, windSpeed: 4.47916537214
LOOP: 2021-04-02 13:56:17 EDT (1617386177) dateTime: 1617386177, maxSolarRad: None, rainRate: 0, usUnits: 1
LOOP: 2021-04-02 13:56:35 EDT (1617386195) altimeter: 30.5110888228, channel: None, dateTime: 1617386195, inTemp: 76.19, maxSolarRad: None, outTempBatteryStatus: 0, pressure: 29.8123680055, rain: 0.0, rain_total: 6.5786, rainRate: 0, rssi: 3, rxCheckPercent: 100.0, sensor_battery: 0, sensor_id: 1392, usUnits: 1, windDir: 180.0, windSpeed: 1.65011743945
LOOP: 2021-04-02 13:56:54 EDT (1617386214) appTemp: 41.7713672246, channel: None, cloudbase: 7999.15719039, dateTime: 1617386214, dewpoint: 15.4637083623, heatindex: 47.8, humidex: 47.8, maxSolarRad: None, outHumidity: 27, outTemp: 47.8, outTempBatteryStatus: 0, rainRate: 0, rssi: 3, rxCheckPercent: 100.0, sensor_battery: 0, sensor_id: 1392, usUnits: 1, windchill: 47.8, windSpeed: 1.13574508805
This is what I use to determine the MQTT sensor names that are available to use. I believe the "loop" messages are sensor values that are being broadcast from the weather station to the display. I think these are broadcast at varying intervals based on how often specific sensors are updated. The "rec" values happen every 60 seconds and are WeeWX recording the values it has received to their destination, in this case publishing to MQTT.
With KVM on Ubuntu I had an issue where every couple weeks or so KVM would stop passing the Weather Station USB device through to the VM. I couldn't figure out why it was happening so I added some automation to reattach the USB device when it disconnects.
binary_sensor:
- platform: command_line
name: Weather Station Connected
command: "lsusb | grep 24c0:0003 | wc -l"
payload_on: 1
payload_off: 0
For this to work you need to set up the ability for HomeAssistant to make SSH connections to your server. I used this guide to do that: https://siytek.com/home-assistant-shell/
shell_command:
detach_weatherstation: ssh -i /config/ssh <your-user>@<your-linux-server-ip-address> -o 'StrictHostKeyChecking=no' "LIBVIRT_DEFAULT_URI=qemu:///system virsh detach-device <Home-Assistant-VM-Name> /home/<your-user>/weatherstation.xml"
attach_weatherstation: ssh -i /config/ssh <your-user>@<your-linux-server-ip-address> -o 'StrictHostKeyChecking=no' "LIBVIRT_DEFAULT_URI=qemu:///system virsh attach-device <Home-Assistant-VM-Name> /home/<your-user>/weatherstation.xml"
You may have to change the bus and port number to match
<hostdev mode="subsystem" type="usb" managed="yes">
<source>
<vendor id="0x24c0"/>
<product id="0x0003"/>
</source>
<alias name="hostdev0"/>
<address type="usb" bus="0" port="5"/>
</hostdev>
alias: Reattach Weather Station
description: ''
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.weather_station_connected
to: 'off'
- platform: time_pattern
seconds: '0'
condition:
- condition: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.weather_station_connected
state: 'off'
action:
- service: shell_command.detach_weatherstation
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 5
milliseconds: 0
- service: shell_command.attach_weatherstation
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 5
milliseconds: 0
- service: hassio.addon_restart
data:
addon: 10409bfc_hassio_weewx
mode: single
Uses the Linux Infrared Remote Control Library and MQTT to send and receive infrared commands with a Raspberry Pi.
** Update: I don't think this installs with current versions of Home Assistant (Anything newer than mid-2019). I no longer use a Raspberry Pi to host Home Assistant (I use a Linux server with a KVM virtual machine) and I have not attempted to get this working on any hardware other than the Raspberry Pi GPIO. Leaving here in case it is helpful for anyone **
{
"mqttUser": "MQTTUserName",
"mqttPassword": "MQTTPassword"
}