I decided to spin up Home Assistant on a VM on my server yesterday, and so far I’m not having much luck getting to to much that is actually useful.

I’m wondering if it’s me doing something wrong, but I can’t see what that would be.

I’ve signed up for the free trial of the cloud services which all seems to have gone fine, and I have a couple of integrations working (Roomba, printer ink levels, Sonos and a couple of others) but mostly everything else I’ve tried just doesn’t want to play ball

  • Apple TV - won’t pair - I press the pair button in HA but the ATV doesn’t respond with a pairing code

  • Ring doorbell / cameras - these are found but won’t display a live feed

  • Ring alarm - not recognised at all

  • Netatmo thermostat - widget displays but doesn’t sync correctly with thermostat and if I try to adjust temp it sets the target temp to 137 degrees C

  • Hue lights - having issues but this one might be my hub not HA

I was really hoping I could set up automations to, say, turn off my TV, turn off the lights, arm my house alarm - all with one press of a button but it looks like currently this isn’t going to happen.

Is it just me? Am I doing something wrong perhaps? Maybe I’m missing something obvious but it just seems like the integrations with these devices just isn’t quite there? I’d really be interested in other people’s experiences and whether they were able to solve these issues (if indeed they had them at all).

  • @ashok36English
    11•1 year ago

    You spent four paragraphs describing your unusual and unique set up and then asserted that your setup isn’t actual either of those things. I think you just don’t realize how out of the norm your requirements are.

    • AggressivelyPassiveEnglish
      -2•1 year ago

      What exactly?

      Seriously, reading data from Influx isn’t unusual, it’s kind of the whole point of a database to be read from. And sensor data kind of represent a time series. There even is an official plugin, it just doesn’t work right.

      What you seem to conveniently ignore is that I’m starting at two very simple points. And all those paragraphs are just attempts to make one of those work. That’s it.

      And again, this is exactly the attitude I’m referring to. Oh that is totally weird. That can’t work, obviously!

      Why? Why does the very simple use case to read data from a db not work?