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Home Assistant custom component integration for Gardena Smart System
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Integration still maintained? #215

Open Kugelfang666 opened 3 weeks ago

Kugelfang666 commented 3 weeks ago

Hi all,

is this integration still maintained? I’m struggling a lot with it and I see a lot of issues posted but only little progress.

I know all the limitations of hobby projects so no hard feeling at all. At the same time some clarity would be great in order to make a decision between sticking with Gardena equipment or the switch to something else.

DNier commented 2 weeks ago

I asked myself the same question as you. But it really seems like no one is doing anything here anymore. I created a pull request, but no one is looking at it either. It's a pity, but I'll just develop my own thing then.

Kugelfang666 commented 2 weeks ago

true and very sad. But currently this integration is borderline-not-working for me. Hence I will likely change my Hardware away from Gardena and to the new SONOFF Water Valves which have just been launched. I Anyhow operate a large Zigbee Network for lighting in my garden so that would be a fit https://sonoff.tech/product/home-appliances/swv/

The one thing which bends my mind: My understanding ist that Gardena uses the Backend and API of Husqvarna. And there is a native Home Assistant integration for their lawnmowers which also relies on the cloud API. Why isn't the native HA integration also offering the water valves?

Kugelfang666 commented 2 weeks ago

just for reference: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/enhancement-of-husqvarna-automower-integration-for-gardena-irrigation-support/745854

DNier commented 2 weeks ago

What components do you have and what exactly isn't working for you? I also only have irrigation components and the Smart Sensors from Gardena, and everything is working with the integration for me.

wolliN59 commented 2 weeks ago

Hi DNier, maybe you commented on a post which I already deleted. Anyway, meanwhile I could make it work and I run irrigation control as well as sensors.... seems to work smoothly!

Kugelfang666 commented 2 weeks ago

What components do you have and what exactly isn't working for you? I also only have irrigation components and the Smart Sensors from Gardena, and everything is working with the integration for me.

I have a similar setup. 1x Bridge 1x Sensor 2nd gen 4x Gardena Smart water control.

For me it’s a lottery whether this integration is properly loaded upon startup of HomeAssitant or not. In most cases it’s not. Sometimes de-activating and re-activating helps, many times it does not.

Even when it works after a restarted (means I can open/close the irrigation) It sure stops responding after a few hours.

All In all in the current RC3 version (and also the regular release) this integration has become very unreliable for me.

wolliN59 commented 2 weeks ago

Hi, I'm running a Linux/Home Assistant VM on an unraid server using intel nuc i3 Version 8 HW. As regards Gardena I' using:

So far I used the smart sw from Gardena, which works quite well.

While trying to integrate almost everything (Z-Wave Network, Tuba smart and Gardena) I got to the point to integrate Gardena with the HACS integration. Due to my own mistakes it took some time to get it up and running. Currently it seems to work properly. However, I just started and will see whether I will encounter the same problems you mentioned.

As regards the Z-Wave I kept on using homee (German vendor) with an z-wave cube controller. This worked fine for years. Since the home automation became more complex, I started getting problems. The issue is that the Z-Wave cube is a black box and homee does not provide a HomeKit code to use it as gateway from Home Assistant. Since I'm using an aeotec Z-stick 7 for wave I'm considering to migrate all ZWave devices to this one and to abandon Homee....

Hope this gives you a small insight into what I'm doing.

If you should have z-Wave experience with HA, feel free to share it with me.

Cheers, Wolfgang

pandalec commented 2 weeks ago

What components do you have and what exactly isn't working for you? I also only have irrigation components and the Smart Sensors from Gardena, and everything is working with the integration for me.

I have a similar setup. 1x Bridge 1x Sensor 2nd gen 4x Gardena Smart water control.

For me it’s a lottery whether this integration is properly loaded upon startup of HomeAssitant or not. In most cases it’s not. Sometimes de-activating and re-activating helps, many times it does not.

Even when it works after a restarted (means I can open/close the irrigation) It sure stops responding after a few hours.

All In all in the current RC3 version (and also the regular release) this integration has become very unreliable for me.

Same here

bpcrocke commented 2 weeks ago

Same here. Loading is a lottery. And if the integration fails, only a restart works (with manually disabling the integration and manually starting it after system is up and running). This is really bad. Also the mowing time setting under configuration does nothing. But a reliable loading integration with a restart button would be great.