Home Assistant + `haproxy` +`LetsEncrypt`+TransIP

This post is about my (positive) experience with haproxy as reverse proxy for Home Assistant. Remote access is need if youw want to access Home Assistant from outside of your home network. As prerequisite we will also need to forward port 443(https) in our router/firewall to system used and make sure we have a valid …

Elro Connects -Home Assistant

I am working on an integration for Elro Connects. The integration should allow users with Elro Connects fire, water or CO alarms to integrate those in Home Assistant. If you own Elro Connects fire alarms and like to test, you could add the elro connects integration with HACS. Add the following repo to HACS https://github.com/jbouwh/ha-elro-connects/. …

New gas monitoring feature

The latest version of Omnik Data Logger now supports the monitoring of gas consumption (using MQTT). Update your Home Assistant 2021.9.x before you update Omnik Data Logger, for else MQTT will not work with Home Assistant. The unit of measurement for gas consumption has changed from m3 to m³ to be compliant with Home Assistant. …

More energy coming soon: Gas!

With the latest beta release of Home Assistant 2021.9 the monitoring of gas consumption will come available. The current version of Omnikdatalogger (1.6.x) does nog support this feature yet, but you can test it already with the latest beta version. Be aware that this beta changes the unit off measurement of the gas entity. This …

New Docker builds for Omnik Data Logger

New Docker builds are available for Omnik Datalogger. Docker containers are ideal when you are not using Home Assistant or the Home Assistant community store (HACS). Docker builds can be easily deployed on multi platforms. Currently the following architectures are supported: linux/amd64 linux/arm64 linux/arm/v7 linux/arm/v6 If you need a different architecture, please let me know. …

Docker support for Omnik data logger

Omnik data logger now also can be installed in docker container. This makes it easy to integrate in a docker based environment. This is an alternative to using AppDaemon with HACS. Install the docker image Use the command docker pull jbouwh/omnikdatalogger to pull the latest image. To build image your self from git: Running the docker image …

Omnik data logger DSMR P1 support

With the new brand new release of Omnik data logger I have included support for the Dutch Smart Meter Requirements compliant Electricity meter. With a simple FTDI P1 to USB serial adapter Omnik datalogger now also publish your smart meter data including gas. With PVoutput this means we can also upload the consumed energy and …

Caching of manual inputs for Home Assistant

I found it to be annoying Home Assistant is recovering the manual input selects I am using for my automations. To enable a persistant state I have made a generic scrits that cashes the state of these input to disk and restores them automatically when Home Assistant restarts. The script is written in Python and …

New release Omnik datalogger

Check https://GitHub.com/jbouwh/omnikdatalogger for the newrelease (0.91-beta) of Omnik datalogger. The last days omnikport was down. In the mean while I found a second method getting access your the data. During the outage the portal at https://www.solarmanpv.com/portal was available the whole time. Here you can find your data aswell. This proves omnikportal is just a skin …

Outage omnik portal

The last few days, the omnik portal and app and API have been unavailabe. So the data loggging is not possible at the moment. I have found out Omnik dataloggers log to the database of SolarmanPV. It seems you can still see your live output and history. The URL is https://www.solarmanpv.com/portal/LoginPage.aspx and you can use …