Home Assistant setup

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Home Assistant setup

Background

Home Assistant Core installation on Raspberry Pi 4, with MySQL.

More details here.

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Custom implementations

These are some of my custom implementations using Home Assistant:

Alexa devices control

With custom component Alexa Media Player, Home Assistant is able to control any thing that you're able to speak to Alexa.

This requires the use of input_boolean helpers to control the state of the entity.

E.g. to control a plug...

# configuration.yaml
switch:
  platform: template
  switches: 
    6a_plug:
      value_template: "{{ is_state('input_boolean.6a_plug_state', 'on') }}"
      turn_on:
        - service: input_boolean.turn_on
          entity_id: input_boolean.16a_plug_state
        - service: media_player.play_media
          entity_id: media_player.new_room_echo
          # Preferably set an Echo device that is rarely used as the echo device actually carries out the command in the foreground
          data:
            media_content_id: 'turn on 6a plug'
            media_content_type: custom
      turn_off:
        - service: input_boolean.turn_off
          entity_id: input_boolean.6a_plug_state
        - service: media_player.play_media
          entity_id: media_player.new_room_echo
          data:
            media_content_id: 'turn off 6a plug'
            media_content_type: custom

Internet health

Shows internet packet loss in %, if any. Useful for real-time applications like gaming or VoIP calls.

# configuration.yaml
binary_sensor:
  - platform: ping
    name: Cloudflare DNS ping
    host: 1.1.1.1
    count: 1
    scan_interval: 2
sensor:
  - platform: history_stats
    name: int_internet_health
    entity_id: binary_sensor.cloudflare_dns_ping
    state: "on"
    type: ratio
    end: "{{ now() }}"
    duration: 00:05:00
  - platform: template
    sensors: 
      internet_health:
        friendly_name: Internet Health
        value_template: "{{ states('sensor.int_internet_health') | round }}"
        icon_template: mdi:ethernet-cable
        unit_of_measurement: '%'

Lo-fi beats

Plays Lo-fi beats live stream from YouTube.

This requires screen, mpv and youtube-dl/youtube-dlc to be installed.

# configuration.yaml
switch:
  platform: command_line
  switches:
    lofi_beats:
      command_on: echo "lofi_on" | netcat localhost 7900
      command_off: echo "lofi_off" | netcat localhost 7900

socat runs in the background (systemd service file) and listens for commands.

Once a switch is turned on, this script is called that starts the playback...

hass_socket_script.sh:

#!/bin/bash
read MESSAGE

if [[ $MESSAGE == 'lofi_on' ]]; then 
  screen -S lofi -dm /usr/bin/mpv --no-video $(/path/to/youtube-dlc -g -f 95 5qap5aO4i9A); fi
if [[ $MESSAGE == 'lofi_off' ]]; then screen -S lofi -X quit; fi
# Truncated. Full in ./hass_socket_script.sh

Soundbar control

Controls the volume of ALSA - 3.5mm port on the Raspberry Pi. Requires alsamixer to be installed.

This involves a input_number helper, an automation and a series of shell commands.

# configuration.yaml
input_number:
  pi_volume:
    min: 0
    max: 100
    step: 5
automation: 
  - alias: Set soundbar volume
    trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: input_number.pi_volume
    action:
    - service_template: shell_command.pi_volume_{{ trigger.to_state.state | int }}
shell_command:
  pi_volume_0: echo amixer_0 | netcat localhost 7900
  pi_volume_5: echo amixer_5 | netcat localhost 7900
# Truncated. Full in ./config

Similar to above, the script calls the command amixer to increase or decrease the volume...

hass_socket_script.sh:

#!/bin/bash

if [[ $MESSAGE == 'amixer_0' ]]; then amixer -q cset numid=1 -- -10239; fi
if [[ $MESSAGE == 'amixer_5' ]]; then amixer -q cset numid=1 -- -7399; fi
# Truncated. Full in ./hass_socket_script.sh

Lovelace layout

Dashboard

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All cards in this view are in a single vertical stack.

Badges

CPU use
System load
Network in
Network out
HACS updates

This is the only view that contain badges.

Vertical stack 1

State row

/drive mount
ASUS laptop
always-on server
Front gate camera
Mesh router satellite

Lights card

Desk light
- ... Color temp card
TV lamp
- ... RGB card
Soundbar volume

Custom implementation that controls alsa volume, using input_boolean, shell_command and an automation.

Switch row I

Night light
TV lamp - Color flow
Lo-Fi beats
Lo-Fi beats 2
Jazz radio

Switch row II

AdGuard Home
Bedroom AC
Refresh Plex
qBittorrent alt. speed mode
16A plug

Vertical stack 2

Graph row I

Bedroom temperature
Bedroom humidity

Indicates if there's any packet loss within the last hour.

Now Playing card

Automatically lists all active media players

Controls view

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Vertical stack 1

Front gate camera
Adaptive Lighting switches

Vertical stack 2

Bedroom AC
- ... addl. controls

Info view

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Vertical stack 1

TV state row

Tracks states of specific TVs.

Graph row I

CPU temp.
Internet health

Graph row II

Download speed (Speedtest.net)
Upload speed (Speedtest.net)

Custom-made sensor that uses the official Speedtest.net CLI instead of the rather inaccurate speedtest-cli.

Graph row III

Current network in/out
Today total traffic in/out

A combined card that graphs network usage within the last hour.

Custom-made sensor that gets network traffic from vnstat.

Vertical stack 2

Info row I

qBittorrent active torrents
qBittorrent upload/download speed

Info row II

SSD free %
/knox free %
/knox free space

Tile view

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Vertical stack 1

Internet graphs

Node ping
Internet ping

Graphs pings to local ISP node and Cloudflare DNS. This card is very helpful in isolating network issues.

Radarr/Sonarr cards

Radarr/Sonarr ongoing commands
Radarr/Sonarr queue

Vertical stack 2

Devices card

Network devices list

Using the Netgear integration, this card shows all network-connected devices. Dynamically sorted such that the last updated device is always on top.

Remote control view

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Spotify player

Spotify media player
- Playlist shortcuts
- Soundbar source
- Bedroom Echo source

Alexa players

Household Echo media players
... switches
- Do Not Disturb
- Repeat
- Shuffle
Alexa Everywhere media player

Plex/TV view

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Vertical stack 1

Graph row I

Plex currently watching
Tautulli current bandwidth

Graph row II

Network in
Network out

The four graph cards provide an overview of Plex/network activity in one place and indicates potential network issues.

Vertical stack 2

Plex/TV players

Conditional cards...
- Header cards
- TV player cards
- Plex media players

Custom plugins used

Integrations

Lovelace

Notes

Screenshots may not be up-to-date.
int are "internal" entities that are used inside templates.
Shutting down/Rebooting X200M involves a program named Assistant Computer Control that runs on the laptop.
- A cURL request calls a IFTTT webhook which writes a specific phrase in a file inside OneDrive that the software is able to recognize and perform actions accordingly.
The header that is used for separating cards is from soft-ui.

Special thanks

to all authors above,
and all the very helpful folks over at the Discord.

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my-ha-setup's Introduction

Home Assistant setup

Background

Custom implementations

Alexa devices control

Internet health

Lo-fi beats

Soundbar control

Lovelace layout

Dashboard

Badges

State row

Lights card

Switch row I

Switch row II

Graph row I

Now Playing card

Controls view

Info view

TV state row

Graph row I

Graph row II

Graph row III

Info row I

Info row II

Tile view

Internet graphs

Radarr/Sonarr cards

Devices card

Remote control view

Spotify player

Alexa players

Plex/TV view

Graph row I

Graph row II

Plex/TV players

Custom plugins used

Integrations

Lovelace

Notes

Special thanks

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