Check out some of our other add-ons in our Home Assistant Community Add-ons project. The user needs read/write privileges on the database. home/not_home), Im struggling to get them to appear. Im just getting started with Home Assistant, but i love it already! Copy that string in a text file somewhere and make a note that it belongs to the HomeAssistant - Write token. Had the same and had to change the Time interval on the upper right side to at least 1h, Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, I give up, just is not worth the time and effort. Like before, set your timezone. Click on the "HomeAssistant - Write" token (directly on the name) and a window will open where a long string will be shown. This is optional, but highly recommended. In most cases you can leave the default query as is and just select the entity you are looking for in the FROM part. My sensor doesnt report that often, so Ill select 1 hour as the GROUP BY period, or you could set it to auto if you want. Also, I hope this can help newbies (like me) get your image started, here are the commands I had to use (DSM 6.1 did not like -v): mount type=bind,source=/volume1/docker/influxdb,target=/var/lib/influxdb, mount type=bind,source=/volume1/docker/grafana,target=/var/lib/grafana, philhawthorne/docker-influxdb-grafana:latest. Thanks for your swift reply and support. Grafana allows you to setup Dashboards with graphs and widgets. Turns on a blue Hue bulb outside of toilet, when toilet lights are on. It was also a little more complicated because all of the examples were Influx 1, not 2. But i cant seem to set username and password to protect it from the outside? Also, the Grafana interface doesnt seem to show up . See the official installation documentation for how to set up an InfluxDB database, or there is a community add-on available. If youre familiar with relational databases like MySQL orPostgreSQL, InfluxDB is similar but excels at managing time series data. Hi Phil, Ive come back to this as I want to have persistent logs kept for my energy meters. The following characters can be used in entity globs: * - The asterisk represents zero, one, or multiple characters Yes it is and more than that. Note that unlike the 1.xx queries, this does not default to mean. Sorted it. your more machine than man. docker: Error response from daemon: Bind mount failed: /path/for/influxdb does not exists. The influxdb sensor allows you to use values from an InfluxDB database to populate a sensor state. Open HomeAssistant "configuration.yaml" file. For 2.xx SSL verification is required, library provides no way to disable it. These should limit resultset to one table, or any beyond the first will be ignored. This prevents the test entities to be written to the long-term InfluxDB. rtsecs). After exploring just some of the data exploration and dashboard features available directly in the Home Assistant Community Add-on: InfluxDB, its enough for . This means that in a home scenario you'll most likely just have one. influxdb: !include influxdb . Any idea how I could pull data from influxdb and create new sensors in HA please? One small question, Im new to the whole docker thing. I have some good news and bad news for you. Then you can easily restore back to the older version if necessary. There is a much better software for this: Grafana. Thank you. Choose your favorite one and we can query for the data stored for that measurement. Edit: This post is aimed at influxdb1, since influxdb2 got released the bigger part of this post got obsolete. Set this to specify the time precision sent to influxdb. mount type=bind,source=/volume1/docker/influxdb,target=/var/lib/influxdb Exclude all entities matching a listed pattern. Click on the "Volume" tab. Port to use. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d20cd6c34fa82ceab129f58c5d37191e134a54f743e68ac87ee56548cdc69055.png. So wonder if they just renamed $interval to $__interval. Thanks! Now lets press the Add Query button again, and add all our internal sensors together. 2018-06-17 21:10:03 ERROR (SyncWorker_3) [homeassistant.components.influxdb] Database host is not accessible due to HTTPConnectionPool(host=127.0.0.1, port=8086): Max retries exceeded with url: /query?q=SHOW+SERIES+LIMIT+1%3B&db=home_assistant (Caused by NewConnectionError(: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused,)), please check your entries in the configuration file (host, port, etc.) Theres lots of information on how to configure the export in the Home Assistant docs, which is what Ive used to create my very basic config that just takes a few fields that I want to be able to use. Questions? Can you tell me how to update influx and grafana? :-). This adds a yellow line, and the entire graph now has the living room temperature compared to the outside temperature. You must configure the influxdb history component in order to create influxdb sensors. If you instead choose the things most important you want to graph, this should reduce the number of calls to InfluxDB Home Assistant needs to make, and hopefully avoid the error youre seeing. Unfortunately, each device is slightly different, so youll need to consult the instruction manual for each device. I kind of liked the idea of the "whole" supervised HA VM and not just the bare docker deployment. n/a 1.xx only - List of sensors to expose in Home Assistant. You could of course install Influxdata software yourself, but that is out of scope for this topic, Really cool addon thanks. PS: I already tried to install influxdb (outside Home Assistant) but I can't have an access to the database I'm using in my HA. The installation of this add-on is pretty straightforward and not different in comparison to installing any other add-on. Setting a coarser precision allows InfluxDb to compress your data better. If you get a green check-mark, you did good. In the include section, Im specifying which sensors data I want to be sent to InfluxDB. Navigate to your InfluxDB installation. Set this to allow the integration to retry if there was a network error when transmitting data. I'll be assuming that you've got HA running already and configured with some sensors and whatnot. Then try and start Grafana manually and see if theres any errors in the console that might lead you to where the problem is. Setting this up with Home Assistant is also really easy. In my case it's Home. All others rely on community effort. If you followed my Docker instructions, you'll find it running on port 3004, otherwise it uses port 8086 for non-docker installations. Just keep in mind by increasing the frequency of these reports, youll be using more of the battery, so battery life will be affected. I had issues with Grafana not having permissions to the share I gave it on my Synology. On the next screen choose the "InfluxDB" from the list of databases. You can also configure it to refresh automatically. Lets click Panel Title to bring up the context menu to edit the graph. Click "Add" button and in the "variable" field enter TZ and in the "Value" field enter your timezone in format continent/City. Again just take some time and play around with those values. When it did I found it limiting would this be a suitable replacement? Home Assistant Community Add-on: InfluxDB, Home Assistant Community Add-ons Discord chat server. The list of domains to be excluded from recording to InfluxDB. Section 8 - Configure Grafana to retrieve data from InfluxDB. Moving to InfluxDB will improve performance which will allow you to store data over a longer period of time. While it works with a bunch of them InfluxDB is the preferred one in most cases. In the WHERE we want to chooseentity_id and select the battery sensor. You can set it to almost anything else, but then you'll always have to keep that in mind later. Thamks for your great guide! The database must already exist. This add-on is provided by the Home Assistant Community Add-ons project. These are great tools to see what the state of something was at a certain point in time, or what time an automation executed. Watch your Home Assistant log files for any errors to make sure the connection to InfluxDB is working as expected. It does not replace it. Havent used that yet, but good to know its a bit hungry. So nothing in my log except some unrelated issues with XKNX, sensor: But yeah you can also install influxdb as an addon in the HA VM if you are using hass.io, however it's only version 1.7 at the moment I believe. See range_start above for how this is used in query. You can simply add a ports section. You can easily change what time period is displayed on the screen from the top-right menu. Anyone knows how can I do that ? Choose the "latest" tag. currently i cant find any stats for my sonos speakers on grafana even though all 12 are in home assistant, but other devices like lightbulbs show up fine. Here I cannot give you detailed steps as the query selection depends on what you want. One or more flux filters used to get to the data you want. If this is the only database I would also advise to toggle the default switch. SELECT "value" FROM "homeassistant"."autogen". These files can get pretty big over time, so well want to keep our long-term data somewhere else. From the Display tab, on the right-hand-side under Stacking & Null value, select Connected for Null value. Remember to add your username and password if you set one up. 2018-01-24 15:01:22,767 INFO exited: grafana (exit status 1; not expected) Now lets add the fancy gauges. Best to check the readme on the Github repo, but this should work for you now. I commented out logbook: & history: and deleted the home-assistant db file, and that did not impact the InfluxDb functionality. influxdb:api_version: 2ssl: falsehost: influxdb.exmaple.comport: 8086token: organization: Home Assistantbucket: home_assistanttags:source: HomeAssistanttags_attributes:- friendly_name- device_classdefault_measurement: units, And an example query: https://imgur.com/a/7fpf2Dw. Now we have to use the Flux query language which expects us to type things in. Battery percentages over time, see how quickly batteries are used across your sensors to identify which ones are depleting the quickest, Power usage for main appliances like TVs, Fridges, Heaters and Airconditioners, Moisture levels in your indoor plants (I use the, Download rates for applications like Transmission, TV Volume Level (I can see what volume levels my, Humidity Levels in bathrooms to see what time of day people are showering or whos having extra long showers (. Strange, I am not 100% sure if this will work with HASSIO. Statistics in Home Assistant with InfluxDB and Grafana. Hi Phil, What component is it? Seems like for influxdb its the same. Then, click select tag value to choose an entity_id of another temperature sensor. They will be different, depending on what your environment is, but it should be obvious that HomeAssistant is their source. I am Franck Nijhof, and I have 30 years of programming experience, in many languages. Influx had big breaking changes from v1 to v2, so I'm personally avoiding the latest tag. Before we start we need to make sure though that the database is reachable from the Home Assistant host. You are better off with a SQL store like MariaDB if you want to do that. In my case I've got several temperature sensors setup in HomeAssistant. Im a total dunce when it comes to CLI commands! If you followed my Docker instructions, youll find it running on port 3004, otherwise it uses port 8086 for non-docker installations. is there a way to have some form of binary value for sonos if it is playing or not, my use case: we have sonos multi room audio and i want to find a way of having just a easy to see playing/not playing on my smart home dashboard. Section 9 - Creating first graph in Grafana. Hi all, I'm using InfluxDB add-on in my Home Assistant. If there's a tag named "entity_id" with that value, it will be dropped, and if instead there's a field, nothing will happen. Now that everything is set up I can always pretty easily add more data in the future. To test, can you change your docker run command to. This makes it easy to read the battery levels into Grafana. It may not save the last poll value over restarts though. You should only file an issue if you found a bug. So for now, I need to run a VM for HA instead of a docker. I havent tested them myself yet, but this might get it working for you. It means that when you want to ignore, for example, the icon_str attribute that shows in your InfluxDB instance, you need to provide icon to ignore_attributes. The more information your smart home has, the smarter it can be. I feel like it polls initially and then stops. As a first step towards Home Assistant Read more, adguardhome-sync build an even better ad-blocking experience with Adguard home. Now we should have something that looks better. Im assuming youre using Docker. 2.xx only - Auth token with READ access to your chosen Organization and Bucket. Can you give me a hint how to do it? Maybe the second most important job is to give a good overview over the current state of your home. The add-on you are currently looking at right now was developed/packaged by me. The second part is the interface. On the left side of the UI, open the Influx Admin panel and click '+ Create Database' at the top. I would suggest that you monitor storage consumption increase on a daily basis to determine if this will be an issue for you or not. So, it could be you have to keep your HA online for 24 hours so it receives the updates from all the nodes. For example, Im querying below for all the mph measurements (which were created using Dark Sky). 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Something like. Thank you for watching. Thank you! So, if youre using Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi, you could have InfluxDB running on a PC or NAS thats always on. You will be prompted to set a new password. starting from the data source to the destination. I can see the battery status of all devices, check my internet connection and see how temperature, brightness and humidity have changed over time. InfluxDB is an open source time series database optimized for high-write-volume. Ill probably add those back just to keep last few days of data as fallback but good to know InfluxDB is not dependent on it. Im currently looking into this issue. The influxdb integration makes it possible to transfer all state changes to an external InfluxDB database. The list of attribute names to ignore when reporting to InfluxDB. In my case I decided to only send data about all of my sensors. Lets take a look at some questions you might be able to answer by analyzing your sensor data over longer periods. Hmm interesting. All indications were good but I am not getting any data from home assistant first I used the loopback address in my YAML file because I am running both home assistant and Influx on the same NAS. One thing I cannot solve even after reading everything I can find: Installed Influxdb and followed the guide. Sqlite DB corruption - migration to other engine? Expand the A query to see how it is built. Im using docker on my Raspberry Pi 3+ right now to manage my Home Assistant configuration. That way your historical data doesnt take up space on your SD card. O want to view config because I installed telegraf but it cant write in influxdb. when an entity doesnt have a unit. {{ sensor.fibaro_system_fgms001zw5_motion_sensor_battery_level }} Using MQTT, the power and energy generation data from Huawei's FusionSolar Kiosk can be fed into Home . Yeah so you should be able to SSH in on port 22022 to update anything you want. There is. Anything else? Duration or time value to stop range at. Which is Grafana. Home Assistant (hass) is an open source home automation platform. Go to the "Image" section of the Docker app and double-click the downloaded Grafana image. On the new page you should see your bucket name in the lower left section of the screen in the "From" frame.