Home Assistant setup

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• Home Assistant setup
  • Hardware
  • Themes
  • Implementations
    • Alexa devices control
    • Netgear Orbi integration
    • Soundbar control
    • Lo-fi beats
• Lovelace layout
  • Dashboard
    • State row
    • Graph row
    • Lights card
    • Switch rows
    • Now Playing card
  • Controls view
  • Info view
    • Graph rows
    • Network stats
  • Tile view
    • Graph row
    • Info card
  • Remote control view
    • Spotify player
    • Voice assistant players
  • Plex/TV view
    • Graph rows
    • Plex/TV cards
  • Custom plugins used
    • Integrations
    • Lovelace
  • Notes
  • Special thanks

Hardware

Home Assistant Container install on Raspberry Pi 4 with PostgreSQL database.

Full setup here.

Themes

For themes, head over to the themes folder.

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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.

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

E.g. to control a smart 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
          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

Netgear Orbi integration

With custom firmware and bash scripts, statistics from router like current internet usage or monthly usage can be integrated into Home Assistant.

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Requires Voxel's firmware and entware to be installed.

Get current WAN usage

Using netdata:

# ssh [email protected]
opkg install netdata

Add to Home Assistant with the Netdata integration.

Using vnstat to get total daily/monthly usage

# Install on router
opkg install vnstat
vnstat --create -i eth0
reboot

# configuration.yaml
# Daily usage
sensor:
 - platform: command_line
   name: Router daily WAN usage
   command: "/bin/bash /config/scripts/orbi_router.sh wan_daily"
   # Script in ./bash_scripts/orbi_router.sh
   scan_interval: 120
   value_template: "{{ value_json.id }}"
   json_attributes:
     - rx
     - tx

 - platform: template
   sensors:
    wan_daily_usage_up:
    friendly_name: WAN daily usage (upload)
    unit_of_measurement: 'MB'
    icon_template: mdi:arrow-down
    value_template: >-
      {% if state_attr('sensor.router_daily_wan_usage','tx') != None %}
        {{ (state_attr('sensor.router_daily_wan_usage','tx')|float/1000)|round }}
      {% else %} NaN {% endif %}

  wan_daily_usage_down:
    friendly_name: WAN daily usage (download)
    unit_of_measurement: 'MB'
    icon_template: mdi:arrow-up
    value_template: >-
      {% if state_attr('sensor.router_daily_wan_usage','rx') != None %}
        {{ (state_attr('sensor.router_daily_wan_usage','rx')|float/1000)|round }}
      {% else %} NaN {% endif %}

# configuration.yaml
# Monthly internet usage
sensor:
  - platform: command_line
    name: Router monthly WAN usage
    command: "/bin/bash /config/scripts/orbi_router.sh wan_monthly"
    scan_interval: 00:30:00
    value_template: "{{ value_json.index }}"
    json_attributes:
      - upload
      - download

  - platform: template
    sensors:
    wan_monthly_usage_up:
      friendly_name: WAN monthly usage (upload)
      unit_of_measurement: GB
      icon_template: mdi:upload
      value_template: >-
        {% if state_attr('sensor.router_monthly_wan_usage','upload') != None %}
          {{ (state_attr('sensor.router_monthly_wan_usage','upload')|float/976563)|round(1) }}
        {% else %} NaN {% endif %}

    wan_monthly_usage_down:
      friendly_name: WAN monthly usage (download)
      unit_of_measurement: GB
      icon_template: mdi:download
      value_template: >-
        {% if state_attr('sensor.router_monthly_wan_usage','download') != None %}
          {{ (state_attr('sensor.router_monthly_wan_usage','download')|float/976563)|round(1) }}

Soundbar control

Controls the volume of ALSA - 3.5mm port on the Raspberry Pi.

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

Requires alsamixer to be installed.

# 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 ./bash_scripts/hass_socket_script.sh

Lo-fi beats

Plays Lo-fi beats live stream from YouTube.

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

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

socat runs in the background (systemd unit 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 ./bash_scripts/hass_socket_script.sh

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Lovelace layout

Dashboard

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State row

• People presence
• ASUS laptop
• Front gate camera
• Mesh router satellite/reboot

Graph row

• Bedroom temperature
• Bedroom humidity

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 rows

• Adaptive Lighting
• Lofi beats/2/music radio
• Adaptive Lighting Sleep mode
• Bedroom AC/swing
• Bulb

Now Playing card

• Automatically lists all active media players

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Controls view

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• Front gate camera
• Bedroom AC HVAC
  • Controls

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Info view

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Graph rows

• Internet download speed
• Internet upload speed

Custom sensors that fetch data from self-hosted Speedtest-tracker API.

Network stats

• Router card
• Router live traffic in/out
• Total router traffic in/out (today)

Custom implementations that fetch data from Netdata and vnstat.

An iframe from Netdata is used for the live traffic graph.

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Tile view

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Graph row

• Orbi Satellite uptime
• Server network traffic in/out
• Total server traffic in/out (daily)

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

Info card

• LAN clients card

Using the Netgear integration, this card shows all network-connected devices.

Dynamically sorted such that the last-updated device is always on top.

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Remote control view

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Spotify player

• Spotify media player
  • Playlist shortcuts
  • Soundbar source
  • Google Home source
  • Amazon Echo sources

Self-hosted Spotify Connect using librespot

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# Pull Docker image
docker pull agneev/librespot-alsa

# 
docker run --network host -d /dev/snd:/dev/snd agneev/librespot-alsa

# Customize config file:
nano /opt/spocon/config.toml

Voice assistant players

• Alexa media players
• Google Home media players

Custom integrations used for Alexa and Google Home.

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Plex/TV view

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Graph rows

• Plex currently watching

This figure is obtained using the Plex integration.

Plex/TV cards

• Plex media players
• TV media player

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Custom plugins used

Integrations

• HACS by ludeeus
• adaptive_lighting by basnijholt
• Alexa Media Player
• Smart IR by smartHomeHub

Lovelace

• auto-entities by thomasloven
• button-card by RomRider
• card-mod by thomasloven
• custom-header by maykar
• layout-card by thomasloven
• lovelace-swipe-navigation by maykar
• mini-graph-card by kalkih
• mini-media-player by kalkih
• rgb-light-card by bokub
• simple-thermostat by nervetattoo
• slider-entity-row by thomasloven
• template-entity-row by thomasloven
• uptime-card by dylandoamaral