How to Create YOUR OWN Garden Watering System in Home Assistant!

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How to create YOUR OWN professional Garden Watering system in Home Assistant. In this video, I share my most valuable Home Automation with you: a fully automated Garden Watering or Irrigation System that takes into account the outside temperature of the past few days, the rainfall of the past few days, and the rain forecast for the next 24 hours. It's by far the most valuable automation I've ever made in Home Assistant. I've been using this for over two years now and in that time I've made it so that it works perfectly. This video contains so much juice. I teach you about Helpers, Automations, Scripts, and how to make your own template sensors. If you use Home Assistant and want to automate your garden sprinkler to water your garden, this is a MUST-SEE tutorial for you! It will definitely blow your mind!
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Some people asked me what would happen if Home Assistant reboots during watering. In that case, the sprinkler would go on forever, but you can easily circumvent this. I've added some EXTRA code to the download package to prevent your sprinkler will go on forever in case of Home Assistant reboots during watering the garden.
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00:00 Introduction
01:50 What do we need?
07:51 Set up Openweathermap
10:37 Set up Helpers for your garden watering system
13:18 Set up Template Sensors for your garden watering system
25:08 Set up Automations for your garden watering system
33:26 Set up Scripts for your garden watering system
38:16 Dashboard for your Garden Watering System
#homeassistant #homeautomation #sprinkler #wateringthegarden📺

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@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

Hi! I hope this video helps you. Please let me know in the comments what you think! I'd really appreciate that.

@stefan-lupo-pelzl Жыл бұрын

@SmartHomeJunkie Hi Ed, great video! Thank you! Did you check the open sprinkler add-on for HA? It‘ll be great if you could do another video on open sprinkler…???

@BartVanLandschoot 2 жыл бұрын

Even if I do not need a watering systems, I learned more about templates, the reload of HA from Visual Studio Code. In addition I discovered that you use the "indent-rainbow" extension to colour the indent spaces in different colours. Always good to learn from professionals. Thanks!

@jonnylikertrommer 2 жыл бұрын

You are reading my mind! We recently moved and now have a Big garden, and I have been thinking of making this! Looking forward to watch this video!

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

Superb!!! I think you will really like it!

@DarkRehabOfficial 2 жыл бұрын

You deserve so much more subscribers! High quality & clear tutorials!

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much. Spread the word! You can really help me by sharing my channel. ❤️

@Hotdogxxxx 2 жыл бұрын

Very well done! I really like how you structures your video and how easy it is to follow. Pls continue your good work!!

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your great compliment!

@rogeriocamargo1984 2 жыл бұрын

Great explanation, congratulations! Today I'm using an ESP8266 board to obtain measurements from a humidity (mosture) sensor with ADC platform. So in Home Assistant, if the humidity is low, a relay is turned on for a few minutes while it opens a solenoid valve to drain the water. It's a small garden with some plants but it works well.

@feroxes 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Just implemented it according to your tutorial:) Waiting for sunrise to see how it works:))

@tomjones2860 Жыл бұрын

Took me a while to actually build this, but I've had this up and running now for a week now and absolutely love it. I use this to run my 5 zone in ground water system with a Athom 8Ch relay system which I am sstruggling with (range/connectivity issues) . In my climate our in ground watering systems will freeze and burst so each Fall you have to roll the dice to determine if we are getting close to freezing. I have added a helper that will keep track of the minimum temp for each day and then if the overnight temp gets to below 5C over 3 days in a row, HA sends me alerts to let me know that it is time to blow out the system and winterize the whole thing. Before this I would just blow out the system when I had to scrape my windshield two days in a row. Also going to try to use this code to trigger an alert in spring that it is time to turn the water back on. We are on metered water so watering just the right amount will save a lot of money. Thanks again...

@gezzasa01 2 жыл бұрын

Great video Ed! Keep up the great work!

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Gerhard! I feel that this video is the best one I've ever created. Feels like a new starting point in quality. 👌🏻

@rexgold101 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this.. I am just starting my way into Home Assistant having had Fibaro for last 7 years.. slowly starting to bring things over to HA and your videos have been very very helpful…

@SmartHomeJunkie Жыл бұрын

That's great to hear!

@TheUnofficialMaker Жыл бұрын

Amazing and explained very well.

@SmartHomeJunkie Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@nicoladellino8124 Жыл бұрын

Very nice video, TNX.

@AGRIMOVIEemi 2 жыл бұрын

Good boy👏👏👏 Great job 👍🏻 👏 👍🏻

@xaquib666 Жыл бұрын

Awesome tutorial @smarthomejunkie ! Learned a lot and implemented it! Optimized it to my setup and weather. Please share more such tutorials!😊

@SmartHomeJunkie Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@BeardedTinker 2 жыл бұрын

Great video!!!

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Sir! 🙏🏻

@tomjones2860 2 жыл бұрын

Loved this! And perfect timing! I will use these tools and techniques to automate my house's dehumidifier/air exchanger. with your templates and helpers will average the 9 thermostats in the house (each report humidity) and determine if I need to exchange the air in the house or dehumidify... I can also the leverage window sensors from my security system and avoid running the air exchange system if one of the kids left a window open, I might count the number of windows left open use that as min/max for activating the air exchange fans. You made a very complicated system easy to understand and something that I will definitely tackle.

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

So cool to hear that you can use this tutorial as starting point for something completely different 👍🏻. This is exactly what I am trying to achieve. Inspire people to implement their own ideas.

@princesaharan9515 Жыл бұрын

amazing, what a detail video.

@SmartHomeJunkie Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@Albert-kb1sh 2 жыл бұрын

Terrific video! I was looking for something similar for my garden and you have helped me a lot. I did the full deployment in Node-Red instead of using HA scripts, automations and YAML. Thank you again for the amazing contribution!

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the compliments!

@Daniel-xk1ek Жыл бұрын

Hello Albert, Do you want to share your node red code? Thanks! Daniel

@ToTo-od9wz Жыл бұрын

I like your garden watering system.

@SmartHomeJunkie Жыл бұрын

Thanks. It works really really well.

@Dennis-qm4rd 2 жыл бұрын

Wow Ed, dit is een geweldige tutorial. Goed voorbereid en helder uitgelegd. Ik heb er veel aan gehad om bij mij het e.e.a. te verbeteren. Ik ga hem nog verder finetunen, omdat ik mijn eigen weerstation heb en zou willen werken met de output van de regensensors en soilsensors, maar dit is perfect! Dank je wel!

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

Wat een leuk bericht! Dank je wel voor de complimenten!

@WillemBoddendijk Жыл бұрын

What a great tutorial and excellent solution! I have followed the instructions to the letter and have learned a lot in the process. A few things I ran into, which might help other users: - openweathermap did not want to install on HA 2022.7 01. After upgrading my container to latest version it did install though. The version difference was 2 weeks . - I had to link the scripts in the automations manually, after pasting the yaml. Otherwise the scripts would not be triggered, eventhough the naming conventions were identical. - I will experiment with the watering duration, my garden is quite small, the default times seem too long for me. Thnx again Ed! I am now waiting for delivery of my Woox smart garden Irrigation controller, which should work with zigbee on ZHA. My dummy works now, so a small change of entity in the script will have my automation up and running.

@SmartHomeJunkie Жыл бұрын

Brilliant!!! Yeah, I am on sandy soil, so I need to water a long time.

@CaptainBalou 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely awesome video. Learned a log about scripting and helpers here. Also searching for a watering system these days. But the setup is hard and if something doesn't work because of a type it will be hard to troubleshoot. Wouldn't it be easier to have this awesome scripts/helpers as a HACS integration or something like that? I don't know how mich work this means. I feel it would a nearly perfect solution for a standard watering requirement.

@mmuffley Жыл бұрын

As always: great content! I would advise against using delays to turn off services. Create a time pattern triggered second automation. This is much more robust in case somethign happens to the system while the service is on.

@SmartHomeJunkie Жыл бұрын

Agree. I added an extra automation to the code that you can download that stops a running sprinkler when Home Assistant gets rebooted.

@user-fc2oy6jv3p 5 ай бұрын

Hi, I am new to Home Assistant and this is my first project. I have installed the irrigation code and it looks OK. The explanations and guidance are great. Thanks. I am now at the dashboard code but I do not know what to do with it. How and where do I install it?

@JoseBerruezo 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, but my previous comments and yours are gone, but everything is working now. Thanks

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, sorry. I had to upload the video again because of a silly mistake that I made. I said that Sunset was in the morning, but that was of course a mistake. I really wanted to fix that, but unfortunately you cannot replace a video in KZfaq, so you lose all your views and comments. #sad 😢

@JoseBerruezo 2 жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie Thank you.

@HATipsByLarry 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you i learned a lot from this video. Did not need a watering system but learned about studio code server (was using file editor but this is so much better) and i used the first part of your template to get the expected rain fall for the next 24 hours but had to change it a little as i'm in the states and we use the old measurements (don't know why we still use it but we do) so inches instead of MM. Just divided the ns.totalpreciption by 25.4 and set the rounding to 2 instead of 0 and was good to go. Put this on my HA's weather page. Thanks again. 😁

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

Great that you could use parts of this. 👍🏻

@Reel2RealProd 2 жыл бұрын

Can you show where you made your change ? I'm also in the states.

@HATipsByLarry 2 жыл бұрын

@@Reel2RealProd Sure the 3rd line from the bottom of the first template looks like this {%- set ns.totalprecipitation = ns.totalprecipitation + precipitation -%} change it to look like this {%- set ns.totalprecipitation = ns.totalprecipitation + precipitation / 25.4 -%} Dividing it by 25.4 gives you inches instead of millimeters.

@freekverheul3741 Ай бұрын

Hi smart home junky. Awesome lesson in HA! Very useful Thank you so much. I could not test it yet because it is raining and raining. You advised to monitor it on the dashboard, however I could not make it. I am a newby in HA. Can you describe me how a where I have to past your codes? Do I have to change the codes? Thank you

@cosmindiaconu9079 Жыл бұрын

Hello! Great video! I have used all your code after a donation to your web and I recently became a subscriber because I love what you are doing. I have one problem though: everytime the automation has to reset the helper values I get an error saying that the script could not be found. I really cannot understand why.

@CooldukeYT 2 жыл бұрын

Hi. Until now I my irrigation system worked with homeassistant timers but I will give your solution a try... looks very promising and not too complicated. Thanks for sharing! NB: the is the condition "Rain < 20mm" for Day1 missing in the introduction slides - but no big deal

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

Don't mention it. Let me know if it worked.

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

Ah yes. You have a sharp eye sir. I don't think you really need to check if rain has fallen if the temperature has been above 31 degrees, but you can play with the variables the way it suits you best.

@gianfilippocastagna3956 Жыл бұрын

ma tu sei un fottuto genio! pagherei per saper fare quello che fai tu.

@SmartHomeJunkie Жыл бұрын

Grazie per questo!

@PeterIJmker Жыл бұрын

Bedankt voor video. Is een vochtsensor ook eenvoudig toe te voegen bv van sonoff

@PatrickLangendoen 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this nice and thorough tutorial. For me this is much too complicated. I use the Gardena drip system which waters directly on the soil and every day at 17:00 my HA takes the max temperature over the last 24 hours and and subtracts 18 of it and this is the amount of minutes I water the garden. So 25 degrees max temp gives me 7 minutes of watering. In addition if it above 28 degrees at 12:00 I water for a fixed 5 minutes.

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

Great that you found your own solution. However, you are not taking into account that it might start to rain right after or while you are watering your garden. That might be cool to add!

@PatrickLangendoen 2 жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie correct, you do have a point. But as I don't have much trust in the reliability of weather services like buienradar for instance I kept it simple.

@MarcoRyan Жыл бұрын

First Off - THANK YOU - for all the time and effort put into such great content; clear explanations and sharing your experience. I subscribed immediately and am working my way through some of your other videos! Secondly. I used to control 6 raised vegetable beds with individual esp32 and Blynk. Each bed had moisture sensors, water flow sensors, Hunuduty/Yemp etc all controlled by the esp32. The logic for when to watering was identical to your but with hours of coding - so this is great to replace this with scripts and automations. The esp32 open and closed solenoids for each bed allowing the water to flow. identical to your smart switch. I'm a bit overwhelmed with HA learning curve, but could you either suggest how I now activate these solenoids through HA or point me in a direction to learn how to use HA and esp32 to do it? Thirdly - do you have patreon page? Your content deserves more than "Buying you a coffee"!

@SmartHomeJunkie Жыл бұрын

Thank you. You can probably control your esp32 solenoids with ESPHome. My Patreon page is at www.patreon.com/smarthomejunkie

@MarcoRyan Жыл бұрын

Thanks. Signed up on Patreon too

@SmartHomeJunkie Жыл бұрын

@@MarcoRyan Thank you so much for your support. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

@dennissneijers1908 10 ай бұрын

Thanks Ed, helped me out during the holiday period. Learned a lot! What source did you use to base your temp / rain fallen conditions on and the amount to sprinkle?

@SmartHomeJunkie 10 ай бұрын

Just my own experience.

@sammeyer1993 2 жыл бұрын

great video thanks alot. especially the perception sensor is really cool. one thing i noticed after looking through your code is that you will always water your garden at least every three days ? even if its raining alot? at least this is how i understand your automation code edit: oh i misread your last condition action. now it makes sense

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

No, I'm not always watering the garden every three days, but you already noticed that yourself. 👍🏻

@setterlee Жыл бұрын

I came to say thank you... Honestly this kind of solutions are really admirables because the dedication... But to be honest, I think that this is too much for a process that just need to be constant and skipped only if the rain supplied the water needed for our garden... I mean, I guess that the grass dont need water every day, I saw some specialists say that the grass must be sprinkled 3 time per week on summer with sufficient amount of water... so, check every day tons of conditions maybe is too much, in my case I just check the rain and the weather station ignoring anything else... but you gave me a clean solution because I didnt know how get the info about the water fall the last 24 hours, I started to save in an input number the water fallen by rain since the last sparkle and use that data to evaluate if the next sparkle need to be skipped. Thanks!

@setterlee Жыл бұрын

I forgot to mention that you have a new follower... I really like the way that you explain the things and your content...

@SmartHomeJunkie Жыл бұрын

Thanks! And yeah, maybe it's a bit over engineered, but it works for me ☺️

@StePhanMckillen 2 жыл бұрын

10 out 10 like your naming convention Remeber to add a default value to the Float(0)

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

Thx. You can, but you don't have to if the value is always filled which is the case here.

@kayakor118 Жыл бұрын

Loved it. Like so many others have said, I learned a ton by following along, step by step, absorbing information like a sponge. It was particularly useful to attempt to paste in your text files and then troubleshoot. Almost all 'errors' were from variations in inset spaces. I am very proud of myself for figuring them out. I don't know if the Automation works yet; I am hoping your Dashboard will help there. But.... There is one error I cannot resolve. In your Dashboard code I get the error "Your configuration is not valid: r: At path: views -- Expected an array value, but received: undefined".

@kayakor118 Жыл бұрын

Cancel that. Started over from scratch by editing a new, working dashboard and adding jus a little at a time an got it to save without errors. There are still problems with how it displays but I am excited to try to figure those out.

@SmartHomeJunkie Жыл бұрын

Great to hear that it helped!

@Stormy_Knight 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, covered a lot of linked HA topics. What would happen if HA is restarted during sprinkling? The helpers would still hold there data, but the sprinkler would never turn off as the control automation would no longer be running. Perhaps an additional automation triggered on HA start to turn on the sprinkler if it was supposed to be on (another helper) so long as the delay time has not already expired. It would also turn off the sprinkler at the saved sprinkler end date/time. End sprinkler date/time would also be stored in a helper that will survive restart. Restarting can be for numerous reasons including by the user for updates or from a power failure. It's possible in the heat of the moment you don't remember the sprinkler is on & you restart HA. Does the switch turning on the pump stay off or revert to previous state after a power failure? I think some at least you can program the behavior. Staying powered off would be safest. This ability to still turn off the sprinkler is probably most important if you are away from home & you cannot monitor the operation of the sprinkler easily. Cheers

@jwerner294 2 жыл бұрын

I also think about it. The best solution is a system that you can not only say start watering, but also give a duration. Second best solution could be a system that switches off after a maximum of x hours.

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

Thx. To be honest, I never had an issue with this because I never reboot HA this early in the morning. ☺️ But what you can do is create a toggle helper that switches to on when the sprinkler starts and switches to off when the sprinkler stops. Then, after a reboot, start an automation that triggers on starting of HA and checks if the toggle is on or off. If it's on, you can either shut down the sprinkler and reset the watering values, or let the sprinkler run for another 10 minutes or so and then shut it off and reset the sprinkler values.

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

I added some code to my GitHub page with a solution for your specific question. See the EXTRA section there. github.com/smarthomejunkie/Home-Assistant-Tutorials/tree/master/Create-Your-Own-Garden-Watering-System#extra

@jwerner294 2 жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie Thanks. I think it is a good idea to move the reset of the input_boolean into the reset script. In current solution after a reboot the input_boolean is not reset.

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

@@jwerner294 Correct! Let's do that!

@GetThemGo Жыл бұрын

Hi Ed, Great movie and will be checking out all other vids, this helps me setup my watering system in HA coming from Indigo & HC3. Can you tell me which version of HA you did this video with ? My current version 2022.8.3 does not show the "Helper Display mode option to set the step size and unit of measurement". HA evolves fast so wonder if its not needed anymore to fill in.

@SmartHomeJunkie Жыл бұрын

The step size and unit of measurement is still there in the latest version. Is your Home Assistant account set to "advanced". Might be that that changes that. Not sure though.

@GetThemGo Жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie Thanks Ed,.. that indeed did the trick, its now visible. So this setting to be enabled is mandatory to be able follow you vid's on some occasions.

@raiden2201 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, thanks for the great and really helpful video. I used this as an inspiration. I have one (edge) case, that I'm not sure about: - The Maximum Temperature Measured is 24 degrees after Day 2, so that option 2 does not match (because of the 3) and will not match option 3 (because temperature is >26). Would it make sense to account for this by changing option 2 to "beween 2 and 4 days"? Or, am I missing something?

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

You have a sharp eye sir. I think that would be a better option indeed. I will change it on my GitHub page.

@clintAdventures 3 ай бұрын

at 26:14 with the current version of home assistant i can not see how under actions i can enter yaml?

@onlym3311 Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for the very helpful video. I just started working on watering. I'm new to use Home Assistant. Thank you in advance if you answer this question. Do I need to purchase additional equipment to make a custom sensor?

@SmartHomeJunkie Жыл бұрын

No, you do not!

@onlym3311 Жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie Now I can custom sensor, thank you so much for the video tutorial and your code that I have donated it makes my work easier, Thank you very much. 🙇🏻‍♀

@SmartHomeJunkie Жыл бұрын

@@onlym3311 Thank you for your support 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

@wilyc0y0te 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing guide! Out of interest, which pump did you use and also, which smart plug; was it an indoor or outdoor one?

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. The pump is a dab aquajet inox 132 m and I used a Blitzwolf plug for it. The plug is an. indoor plug, but it is protected so that it does not get wet.

@wilyc0y0te 2 жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie oh wow, an expensive pump. Mind you, if you have a big garden… Is it connected to sprinklers or to an irrigation system?

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

@@wilyc0y0te Is connected to both. I have multiple water hoses running in the ground.

@Marcel_Brouwer 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Ed, again a great video. Question wat is needed to replace my Rainbird irigation computer with 6 irigation groups. At my house every irigation valve/group has a different timer and only 1 valve at the time is openend due of a pressure drop of top many are in service at the same time.

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

Thx. Ah yes! I think I would solve it like this: change the script that actually waters the garden and add a start watering for each of the 6 valves in there followed with a delay and a stop watering for each valve. When all 6 valves are finished, then reset the helper values

@ElPrOeSt 2 жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie first of all thanks for posting this very helpful video. Keep up the good work! @Marcel Brouwer, to answer you question. I got the same situation with my 4 groups on my rainbird computer. What I did is easy, use @Smart Home Junkie implementation for only one zone. Create a few new automations that are triggerd by the switch of the previous zone from on to off. So for example, the automation starts zone 1 for a duration of 90 minutes. After 90 minutes the switch for zone 1 will transition from on to off. When the zone 1 switch enters the off state that would be the trigger for zone 2, call the service rainbird.start_irrigation and start zone 2 enter this duration: '{{ states(''input_number.sprinkler_watering_duration'') | int }} ' in the duration. After the watering_duration of zone 2, the switch will change from on to off and.. well I think you''ll catch my drift.

@fjordaan0 Жыл бұрын

@@ElPrOeSt Thanks for the idea, all 8 zones working in succession now, remember to move the "Script: Sprinkler: Reset Helper Values" to the last zone. I also doubled up the switch on/off to also toggle my master valve (borehole pump) @Smart Home Junkie Great tutorial al always, thanks for solving this problem for me 🙂

@Reel2RealProd 2 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial. Learned allot. I got a bunch of takeaways. Having a little bit of an issue. Whenever I try to test by running the Check if Garden should be Watered Automation it keeps choosing the default action and nothing happens. What am I missing?

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Well, I guess, either the conditions are not met yet or maybe a helper value is not set. If you create the helpers, you'd have to give them an initial value too or run the reset helper value script.

@Reel2RealProd 2 жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie I have it working with the Orbit B-Hyve XD Smart Hose Timer. Its working great. Thank you again. How can I change the measurements to Imperial instead of metric? Looking forward to more of your videos!! For the temperature I manually converted the numbers to Fahrenheit in the automation, and F in the helper but the dashboard display is still show a C. As for the mm to inches, I'm clueless.

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

@@Reel2RealProd great! I think it should use the standard metrics of your system. It’s in settings-system-general

@florentconty4267 Жыл бұрын

HI ! how to get your Automation editor like yours, looks nice with toggle switch and "Run Actions" button. thanks

@SmartHomeJunkie Жыл бұрын

You can't. Home Assistant changed the interface a couple of months back.

@jaap7374 2 жыл бұрын

I just posted a comment about the OpenWeatherMap forecast and of course you were right and I was wrong (despite watching the video a few times), but there still might be some room for simplification. The documentation states: "The time period these sensors use depends on the forecast mode selected when configuring the integration: hourly or onecall_hourly will show conditions for the current hour of the day, while daily or onecall_daily will show conditions for the current day. Since you have OpenWeatherMap configured to Hourly, you need to do the complex template sensor thing while if you would configure OpenWeatherMap to daily, i simple multiplication would be sufficient. Are there good reasons why to do the hourly forecast? Have you compared the results with for example the BuienRadar forecast values?

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

I used buienradar before, but it doesn't cover the whole world. It might be that one call daily works too, but I wanted to be more precise at the moment when I check at sunset.

@briandurward 2 жыл бұрын

Would it have been easier to use a capacitive moisture sensor with data that could trigger a pump response.

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

Not sure if it is easier tbh. You can use your own sensors too of course. But you will be missing the expected rain calculations. If you have your own sensors to measure temperature, rain faken, moisture, etc., you can adapt the automations in this video so that they use your own sensors. Using Openweathermap is free.

@jwerner294 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome. Thanks for this great video. I could set-up everything and had only one small issue: I get the error message "Unable to find service script.sprinkler_reset_helper_values" when calling the script from 'Sprinkler: Water the Garden'. When I select the script in the visual editor in YAML the "long text version" is replace by "service: script.1653898872270" and this works fine. I've no idea why the long name is not working. BTW: Both script links in my dashboard are showing the internal ids as well and not the long name.

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

Great that it worked. Yeah, I noticed that in some cases the long id number is shown. Not sure why that is tbh. 🤷🏼

@jwerner294 2 жыл бұрын

Found the solution to fix it: Edit the script ,click three-dots to duplicate it, save it with new name and delete the old script.

@jwerner294 2 жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie I think this happens when you copy&paste the YAML code. If I create a new script and enter immediately the YAML mode and copy&paste source code of a script, I see afterwards only the long number.

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

@Jörg Werner That might be the case indeed yeah. Maybe it's already enough to paste the Yaml code, go to the UI mode after that, change something and then save the script. Anyway, it's a good thing that it works! 🎉

@CosminFrinculescu Жыл бұрын

Hi again, Ed. I have the following scenario, if I have 2 watering zone wich can't work both at the same time because off the insufficient water quantity, and they must run one after another, what modification I must add to you system configuration?

@SmartHomeJunkie Жыл бұрын

I would say, create two scripts. One for each zone. Then create an automation that triggers script one first and triggers script two after the first one end. This is just one of the possibilities. There are more ways to achieve this. You can also adjust the existing script to address both zones one after each other. That might be the easiest way.

@CosminFrinculescu Жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie I will try and see how it fits my needs. Thanks!

@stefan-lupo-pelzl Жыл бұрын

@@CosminFrinculescu if you succeeded with the multiple zone application you might want to posted it here or at a link…. thanks!

@CosminFrinculescu Жыл бұрын

@@stefan-lupo-pelzl Not yet, it is still winter so no hurry for me.

@drpainnuk3d 2 жыл бұрын

Hi hi, I am struggling to follow along on Home assistant 2022.06. I am running HA in docker and can't seem to find the same stuff as in the video. Any advice you can offer?

@drpainnuk3d 2 жыл бұрын

I was able to get it going, in the newer one the main configuration.yaml looks different, but pretty much acts the same. After getting that right, the rest looks happy :)

@mirceadomsa 2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for this tutorial. How can it be tested "manually" if it works? I started the "Water the Garden" script, the device (smart plug) turned on and then it stopped immediately. Should certain values be set for "helpers", or can I use the ones you indicate?

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

Thx. It stops immediately because the watering duration is 0 when you test it like this. What I did to test it manually was as follows: 1. Create a toggle helper to switch on or off the automation 2. Add a trigger to the automation that checks if the garden should be watered and check if the toggle helper is on 3. Set the settings of all the helpers manually for a certain maximum degree celcius, max rain fallen and last watering day 4. Create an automatlon that stops the sprinkler if the toggle helper is off 5. Toggle the toggle helper to test

@mirceadomsa 2 жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie thanks for quick reply

@abcben 11 ай бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie Why the watering duration is always 0, it is not being calculated?

@SmartHomeJunkie 11 ай бұрын

@@abcben No idea why it does not work on your side. It works fine here.

@76queen 2 жыл бұрын

I assume that if you have multiple sprinklers you create a automation that starts the first sprinkler and runs through the others.

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

All my sprinklers are connected to the same pump. But yeah, you can do this if you have multiple.

@razvanon 7 ай бұрын

this openweatermap seems to be way off for my area ...and how do i even know it's showing for my area? I don't see the option to change location. i know that it might use the location from my home assitant account settings but still doesn't look right

@SmartHomeJunkie 7 ай бұрын

It should show the weather for your zone in HA indeed. It's accurate in my location.

@tomjones2860 8 ай бұрын

Every now and then the template sensors generate a "'UndefinedError: None has no element 0" any thoughts on fixing this?

@SmartHomeJunkie 8 ай бұрын

Interesting. I never noticed this. I will review my template sensor to see what might cause this.

@CosminFrinculescu 2 ай бұрын

Hi Ed, I haven't used the sprinkler system since last fall and now I just realised that the "Total precipitation expected" senzor is unavailable, but I never changed anything in the yaml. Am I missing something, any changes wich took place since lastyear? Thanks.

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 ай бұрын

Yes, the weather forecast has changed in HA. I have a video about it.

@CosminFrinculescu 2 ай бұрын

Thanks. I've made the modifications and now it's working again.

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 ай бұрын

@@CosminFrinculescu Awesome!

@patricklapointe9330 27 күн бұрын

Hi, with the new API 3.0 of openwwatermap, can this be use with a free version?

@SmartHomeJunkie 26 күн бұрын

I've tested the new "billing plan" from Openweathermap for a couple of days now. The first 1000 api calls per day are free. In the last couple of days I had a maximum of 151 calls per day, so I don't think it's a big issue that you have to register with your credit card now. I personally do not care about using my credit card. And... people do have to get paid to keep services like this alive.

@promufa 2 ай бұрын

This has been a great tutorial. I have setup everything and seemed to be working OK (still kinda cold and rainy here so never actually triggered the irrigation system). However, with the 2024.4 release two of the template sensors have become unavailable: sprinkler total expected precipitation and sprinkler total rain fallen plus expected. I cannot figure out why. All the entities from openweathermap are present and have values... Any clues ? Anyone with the same issues ?

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 ай бұрын

See this video and also read the information in the description of this video: Unlock the Hidden Weather Forecast in Home Assistant kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sNiHpKebxrimlmQ.html

@promufa 2 ай бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie Thanks Ed - will check it later and report on progress. For now i have rolled back to 2024.3 from a backup and everything works good. I am having some other issues with 2024.4 (frigate) so I ll need to resolve that one as well before i can move to .4. Thanks again :) Really appreciate all the tutorials.

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 ай бұрын

@@promufa ooh, if the issue isn't there in 2024.3, then my suggestion won't fix it I'm afraid.

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 ай бұрын

I do not experience this issue btw

@Synthetica9 Жыл бұрын

Why don't you use a statistics sensor with value_max to calculate the maximum temperature?

@SmartHomeJunkie Жыл бұрын

🤷🏼 Might also be a possibility.

@CosminFrinculescu Жыл бұрын

Is this type of automation based on precipitation and temperature better than an automation based on soil moisture sensors and outdoor temperature sensors?

@SmartHomeJunkie Жыл бұрын

Well, precipitation cannot be measured with moisture sensors and outdoor temperature sensors, so the precipitation can only be retrieved through something like Openweathermap. I would say measuring the actual moisture and temperature is always better, but you need precipitation as well to know how much rain will fall in the next couple of hours/days.

@CosminFrinculescu Жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie This is exactly where I wanted to go with the discussion. I think that both options have their pluses and that maybe they should be combined, or at least add the soil moisture sensor to your automation (which, by the way, is awesome). I'm not an expert in gardening, but I suspect that each soil has its own peculiarities and that some soils drain/dry faster and that only the factors of time, precipitation and temperature are not enough to establish soil moisture. What do you think? Would it work to add a humidity sensor to your automation?

@SmartHomeJunkie Жыл бұрын

@@CosminFrinculescu Might work, but it can be done without too. Just set the duration longer or shorter. Anyway, I do not have a moisture sensor.

@CosminFrinculescu Жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie I will order one and give it a try, and I will post the result. It's ok with you if I post here?

@SmartHomeJunkie Жыл бұрын

@@CosminFrinculescu KZfaq does not allow posting code here most of the time.

@kharwo 13 күн бұрын

Hoi Ed, recentelijk heb ik de code gekocht, echter nu werkt open weather map niet meer, komt hier opvolging op??

@SmartHomeJunkie 12 күн бұрын

Openweathermap still works. Just sign up for the 3.0 api

@mikepriest3340 Жыл бұрын

hi! i can't seem to get the OpenWeatherMap integration to work - waited over 24hrs and i still get the "Invalid API key" error when trying to set it up. Any ideas? Otherwise, seems like a great tutorial

@SmartHomeJunkie Жыл бұрын

Can you try to create another api key? I think it shouldn't take so long.

@mikepriest3340 Жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie i've tried with multiple API keys but still the same issue. I wonder if it's because i'm on an older version of HA - supervisor-2022.11.0? unfortunately i can't update because i got stuck on a nasty bug that won't let me update or backup - so would have to restart from scratch which is a daunting prospect...

@SmartHomeJunkie Жыл бұрын

@@mikepriest3340 That shouldn't be the case. i have this running for over two years now.

@mikepriest3340 Жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie they must have been having some issue in the server side because I just tried it again and managed to register the integration. Good stuff. Looking forward to giving your tutorial a go over the weekend!

@SmartHomeJunkie Жыл бұрын

@@mikepriest3340 That's great!

@CosminFrinculescu Жыл бұрын

Hi, Ed! I am trying to recreate your watering system, I have downloaded your code and I got stuck... When I try to add "sensor: !include sensors.yaml" in "configuration.yaml" I get this error: "Invalid config for [sensor]: required key not provided @ data['platform']. Got None. (See /config/configuration.yaml, line 16)." And it indicates the line before (e.g.: line 16) in configuration file. Any advice?

@CosminFrinculescu Жыл бұрын

I got it working... I've had "sensor:" on top in my ""senzor.yaml".

@SmartHomeJunkie Жыл бұрын

That's awesome to hear! Enjoy!

@CosminFrinculescu Жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie I am still far from enjoying it, at this tine I am struggling with automation identation... It's giving me a hard time, but I hope I will get it right soon.

@SmartHomeJunkie Жыл бұрын

@@CosminFrinculescu You will definately get there! 💪🏻

@Albert-kb1sh 2 жыл бұрын

I have a question please, when you set the calculation for the sensor “sprinkler days since last watering day”. The first watering day of the 3 days cycle will be set to (now) and then it will calculate the difference between that day stamped in the helper substraed from (now) again to calculate the value of the sensor. Assuming I understood the process correctly, after 24h after last watered, the sensor value will be 1 and only after the second day the value will be 2. That means that you will never water the garden the second day of the cycle unless the temperature is more than 31.1 and “rain fallen + expected rain” is less than 21.1 mm. Am I correct, or maybe missing something? thank you in advance for your help.

@SmartHomeJunkie 2 жыл бұрын

The difference in days is measured from 0:00. So, it starts counting at midnight. Which means that at sucrose the value is like 2.2 or something. So, option 2 will be executed if the rain fallen and temperature values are correct too.

@digitalaction 4 ай бұрын

I downloaded the v1.3 code for this and the total expected precipitation part doesn't work. if I use developer tools/services Weather: Get forecast I do not get the option for openweathermap and if I put the code in the template editor I get forecast is undefined.

@SmartHomeJunkie 4 ай бұрын

Hmmm...That shouldn't be the case. What version of Home Assistant are you running? And, did you install the Openweathermap integration?

@SmartHomeJunkie 4 ай бұрын

The V1.3 code should work fine if you installed Openweathermap. Regradless, I updated the code a bit and created a V1.4 version. This one is exactly the same as how I run it on my system (only a variable name changed). You might want to try V1.4.

@digitalaction 4 ай бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie Thanks. I am running 2024.2.1 and Openweathermap is installed okay - I can see all its entities

@SmartHomeJunkie 4 ай бұрын

@@digitalaction Not sure what's going on on your side. The fact that you do not get Openwheatermap as an entity in the developer tools services tab seems to indicate that something went wrong with the installation of Openweathermap. It should at least be there.

@digitalaction 4 ай бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie Thanks again. I reinstalled openweathermap and restarted HA and the get forecasts bit now shows openweathermap, not sure what was wrong there but its working now. I also updated my templates.yaml with the v1.4 code but still get "UndefinedError: 'my_forecast' is undefined" in the Dev Tools/template with this part of the code. I will let it run for a bit and see if the entity updates.

@remcove 4 күн бұрын

I think this doesnt work anymore. I followed your tutorial until 20 mins but it looks like openweather changed the way they provide information. It looks like they don't send out dayparts anymore. Any suggestions?

@SmartHomeJunkie 4 күн бұрын

Openweathermap still works here. You need to sign up for a subscription nowadays, but don't worry, you won't be charged.

@remcove 4 күн бұрын

@SmartHomeJunkie thanks for your quick reply. I did purchase a subscription and created an api key. However the daypart data is not showing up in the openweather sensor. When I add the openweather integration and fill in my key and location it accepts the key. I noticed in your video you can choose hourly, daily etc... however don't have any options to choose from

@SmartHomeJunkie 4 күн бұрын

@@remcove Yes, I believe that changed. The whole automation is still working here though with the same code. The only thing that changed is the precipitation because Home Assistant changed the way how weather sensors work. See this video on how that works now: Unlock the Hidden Weather Forecast in Home Assistant kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sNiHpKebxrimlmQ.html The code that you can download for the price of a coffee is already compatible with it.

@remcove 4 күн бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie thanks allot. Now the sensor is being created however the state shows "unkown". I followed the "unlock the hidden weather..." to the dot. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! For testing purposes I changed hourly to every minute. After a minute it goes from unkown to unavailable. Is this due to openweather only allowing a "pull" once every hour?

@Thomaz-lc4zv 10 ай бұрын

Places like the PNW (Pacific North-West, Cascadia) are DRY in the summer. Nearly impossible to rot anything in the summer... anything other than evening watering - is willfully wasting water.

@dundiffrunt 4 ай бұрын

Hi SmartHomeJunkie! Do you think the System needs some tweaking for the new "get.weather_forecasts" change coming in HA 2024.3?

@SmartHomeJunkie 4 ай бұрын

Not sure. I already updated the code for the weather.get_forecasts change from a couple of months back.

@dundiffrunt 4 ай бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie It seems I was running on an old version of the system. I upgraded to 1.4 and now all is fine. Thank you!

@CosminFrinculescu Жыл бұрын

Hi Ed, I have this error. Maybe you can tell what is causing it. "Sprinkler: Check if Garden should be Watered uses an unknown service The automation "Sprinkler: Check if Garden should be Watered" (automation.sprinkler_check_if_garden_should_be_watered) has an action that calls an unknown service: script.sprinkler_water_the_garden. This error prevents the automation from running correctly. Maybe this service is no longer available, or perhaps a typo caused it. To fix this error, edit the automation and remove the action that calls this service."

@SmartHomeJunkie Жыл бұрын

Hi Cosmin, The automation calls a script that I created too. My best guess is that you did not create the script yet, or gave it a different name. Does this help?

@CosminFrinculescu Жыл бұрын

@@SmartHomeJunkie The scrip is created according to you yaml code. I will go back on it again and check if made any mistakes.

@CosminFrinculescu Жыл бұрын

You were right, the name was the problem. HA automatically called it "new_script". I changed its name and I hope it works now.

@nicoladellino8124 Жыл бұрын

Very nice video, TNX.