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Home Assistant custom component integration for Gardena Smart System
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No sync when watering is activated via Gardena App #175

Open JulianPSLearner opened 1 year ago

JulianPSLearner commented 1 year ago

Hi guys,

I use the smart watering device and it does a great job. I can also start the watering via Home Assistant. I created a time schedule within the Gardena App. So the watering starts every day for 30 minutes. Problem: It seems that whenever the watering device is triggered via app - there is no sync back to Home Assistant.

I would like to see whenever watering took place in Home Assistant. Is this possible?

benjycov commented 1 year ago

Hi Julian,

I actually ditched the Gardena scheduler and use the schedular card ( https://github.com/nielsfaber/scheduler-card ) in HA to activate the Gardena valves.

Thus I get visibility of what happened in HA.

I still use the Gardena schedular to tell me what to do ie water in the evening, 5 minutes then wait and then 20 minutes, etc. Then replicate in HA and disable in Gardena.

I hope that helps.

Regards… Ben

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Hi guys,

I use the smart watering device and it does a great job. I can also start the watering via Home Assistant. I created a time schedule within the Gardena App. So the watering starts every day for 30 minutes. Problem: It seems that whenever the watering device is triggered via app - there is no sync back to Home Assistant.

I would like to see whenever watering took place in Home Assistant. Is this possible?

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JulianPSLearner commented 1 year ago

Thank you Benjycov,

I will go the same route. Is there any error handling in case the watering does not work for some reason? Lets say I closed the main water valve. I then trigger the watering - do I get a notification if for some reason the watering didnt work?

benjycov commented 1 year ago

Hi Julian,

Well I don't think you do with Gardena, I don't think it can actually sense whether water has actually passed through the valve?

Alas I do have a solution.... I have a water meter on the main supply to the irrigation valves that is also integrated into HA. What I then do is whenever a valve is activated I assign all water usage on the main meter to a virtual meter for that valve, end result I can see how much water each zone/subzone has used per day. This tells me both if a circuit has had water and also if its used too much (a leak), I actually also have some hard limits in place on each circuit based on typical use.

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Regards... Ben

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Thank you Benjycov,

I will go the same route. Is there any error handling in case the watering does not work for some reason? Lets say I closed the main water valve. I then trigger the watering - do I get a notification if for some reason the watering didnt work?

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JulianPSLearner commented 1 year ago

I have the exact same plan! Unfortunately I don't see the image you attached. Which valve do you use? I ordered the HomeWizard Water meter. Which one do you have? My plan is after a watering session ( I have house water / garden water separated) I want to send myself a Home Assistant Push Notification telling me what the watering I just did costs :-) So I will multiply my water consumption with the current price. I hope this sensitizes me regarding my water consumption.

Do you use any other valves in your gardeN?

benjycov commented 1 year ago

Hi Julian,

Ah apologies, it was only a screenshot of my dashboard showing individual watering circuit daily usage.

I use regular off the peg water meters with a built in pulse sensor, so for every liter used I get a close/open on a circuit which I then detect with an ESP board..

I am slowly moving away from Gardena, at one house I still use their valves, here in France I am using the moisture sensors but actually use standard 24V actuators off a water manifold, I then control the actuators using ESPHome.

I get push notifications when a circuit uses too much water - I had a nasty incident where a circuit didn't close and it used 13000lts of water before I realised! :)

Regards... Ben

On Wed, 31 May 2023 at 09:51, JulianPSLearner @.***> wrote:

I have the exact same plan! Unfortunately I don't see the image you attached. Which valve do you use? I ordered the HomeWizard Water meter. Which one do you have? My plan is after a watering session ( I have house water / garden water separated) I want to send myself a Home Assistant Push Notification telling me what the watering I just did costs :-) So I will multiply my water consumption with the current price. I hope this sensitizes me regarding my water consumption.

Do you use any other valves in your gardeN?

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MikeGT4 commented 4 months ago

Hi guys,

I use the smart watering device and it does a great job. I can also start the watering via Home Assistant.

I created a time schedule within the Gardena App. So the watering starts every day for 30 minutes.

Problem: It seems that whenever the watering device is triggered via app - there is no sync back to Home Assistant.

I would like to see whenever watering took place in Home Assistant.

Is this possible?

Hey Julian, how did you integrate your smart water device in homeassistanst. I made my secret iD and secret pw (and a token) .. but i dont get it how to connect the device. Do i need the location id? If so, how or where can i get it?

Thanks Mike