Home automation

We will focus on Home Assistant with an install base of over 100,000 user

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Home Assistant

We auto populate the Home Assistant entities using MQTT Discovery. This enables us to use MQTT devices with only minimal configuration effort on the side of Home Assistant. A few of these messages are shown in the section MQTT device discovery of chapter Interface.

Home Assistant supports will use the messages and automatically populate the entities shown below.

Dashboard

In the Home Assistant configuration.yaml we add some rules and template sensors as shown in hassio/packages. This also includes some rules that we use for the PoolMath integration.

The Lovelace dashboard tab includes several cards as shown below. The YAML code can be found in hassio/lovelace.

Idle

When the pump is not running, the cards shown below wil be visible.

When for instance the pool circuit is activated, additional cards show up.

Other home automation systems

The OPNpool device publishes state transitions using MQTT. You find an overview of the topics in the table below.

{
    "mode": "heat",
    "heatsrc": "None", // None/Heater/SolarPref/Solar
    "target_temp": 70,
    "current_temp": 67,
    "action": "off"  // off/heating/idle
}

{
    "mode": "heat",
    "heatsrc": "None", // None/Heater/SolarPref/Solar
    "target_temp": 0,
    "current_temp": 67,
    "action": "off"  // off/heating/idle
}