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Another wonderful video, my bearded compadre! I recently set up an irrigation timer both out of the box and assembled from individual parts and I have to say, this device would be admittedly cheaper (if you already have the hub for it). Also, mine does not meter the water--a challenge I may tackle later because that's a really useful feature. That's a pretty neat little water valve. I'd like to add a little "inside" info about these devices in general in case anyone is thinking of different use cases: If you want to use this on a rain barrel or other water source with no pressure, you would need to add a significantly powerful water pump capable of holding the water pressure high. The valves used in these sort of devices are diaphragm valves which require water pressure to operate--usually a minimum of 7-10 PSI (0.5-0.7 Bar) and nominally ~50 PSI (3-3.5 Bar). There are electronic ball valves for that sort of use, but I've not seen any smart ones, so you'd have to improvise a bit if you wanted to go that route. Just thought I'd drop a little something to contribute to the conversation. It's always a pleasure seeing what you're getting into. Thanks for the video!

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Great info. It would be interesting to see how it works paired with some more complex integration for HA such as HAsmartirrigation or simlar to automate garden watering .

Another good way to accomplish this would be to just use Tasker and program it to play a sound when a specific notification is sent from home assistant

I could do either one of these, but it looks like its only available on their US shop.

I would like to use this on roof top to clean solar panels. Is it rain proof?

I have no garden but I wonder if this could be used in a dishwasher/washing machine paired with a water leak sensor just to shut off the water if a leak happens. That would be interesting

I hate my wifi valves 😮‍💨 Will give one of these a try and see if it works out better. It's so hot 🥵, I'll be watering non-stop pretty soon and just leave the valve open forever and not even need a smart valve 😓

ordered one today as well. i hope that we see all the options in ZHA soon

You can always test it in the shower 😂

why not use if and then or choose to use a single automation?

Exactly what I needed, Thanks!

LOL, I just installed new PVC lines from my wife's garden to the rain barrels where I have a High output garden pump in one. I used a spare Sonoff"Mini Smart Light Switch" that has the 120VAC and pump wired into it and a "Flow" sensor. Works good! This would be so much easier both hardware and programming. I guess I need to re-do this again. My wife thinks I am crazy.... she's probably correct. I finished wiring this in yesterday. Great Video!

Not related to the video however I recently found a video "Apple Air Tags in Home Assistant - Proxmox Guide 2024" which allows you to see the Airtag location directly in HomeAssistant although it is in German. Would love to see an English video about it but of course I do not know if you have iPhone/iPad with Airtag to make it happen :)

Awesome explanation video, might think about buying one :)

just in time, ordered one.

Интересно. Надо пробовать. А если например в телефоне всегда выключен звук, как включить звук уведомления?

Theres proibably an easier way, but I managed to created some sensors that extract the last notification by package name so that you don't just have the very last notification to use. Very useful. Thanks!

I have a oneplus and the clock is not the same as vanilla android. It worked when i downloaded the Google clock on playstore. But i want to use the normal clock. Someone know how to find what package name my oneplus clock is using? Edit: I found it. In playstore on web, the url on oneplus clock ends with com.oneplus.deskclock . Changed the "intent_package_name: com.oneplus.deskclock" and it worked :)

Loved the iPhone joke ahaha, so true though

Off topic question: what is in your HACS view? I've not seen dashboards with HACS in the view tabs, only the left nav.

As always... Another great video 😊

@beardedtinker the Watermark feature is only for the Reolink logo to be displayed or not. The camera name and date/time can stay turned on even with the Watermark turned off. The nice thing with the Reolink cameras is they allow you to not only have your date/time and camera info displayed, but you can also choose the location for the info so it doesn’t cover an area that you want to be able to see. It is also nice that they can be hidden as well. Nice work by Reolink on this feature!

On iPhone you can send a notification that causes an alert sound. It's how I find my wife's phone about once a week. action: - service: notify.mobile_app_<your_device_id_here> data: title: "Wake up!" message: "The house is on fire and the cat's stuck in the dryer!" data: push: sound: name: "default" critical: 1 volume: 1.0

The "equivalent" for the iPhones would be setting up shortcuts where several things can trigger events and can send commands through home assistant. It's quite a bit of a workaround, but it is possible.

I've been using this for a while for a few things. Getting the notification from my smart dryer and washing machine into HA to announce that washing or drying has finished. For Chipolo Bluetooth trackers to tell me I may have left whatever it's attached to behind via TTS to phone. Could also use it for notification of Amazon delivery when it's a few stops away. I'm sure there are plenty of other uses I haven't thought of yet too.

Yet another great video. I keep learning more and more. Thank you very much.

Thanks for this, just tried it on a Oneplus Nord and the message even gets past the 'silent' slider on the side of the phone when locked.

Ok you said iphone is superior to android, seeya. ;-)

Hi and thank you again for this video! Any chance to see a Bubble Card 2 video as well in the future? There are too many new features and it seems that nobody has covered it yet 🤞

You can play whatever sound you like for many notifications (copy the sound of your choice to your phone, or use built in sounds). You have to define the notification channel, then in Android setting for home assistant notifcations you can define a specific sound for each channel. Like how you can define a different notification sound for each message Eg: data: channel: Doorbell

Just what I needed. I set up some push notifications a couple of weeks ago for when my elderly mother triggers an event on any of the Nest mini hubs I have set up around her home.

Definitely see a use for water or smoke detection alerts. Thanks

love your videos, and thanks for making them. What i have done for getting my attention for important events from Home Assistant, I use the channel option for Android phones. What this does is you send a notification to your phone with a specific channel name, for example DoorBell. this will intern add another notification categories option in your Home Assistant companion app. You then can select a unique sound for when some one presses the door bell. When you make your automation under event data for the notification to your phone, your would ad channel DoorBell in the data fileld All this info is in the companion app docs. Sorry for running on so much and probably confusing the world what i said. Just trying to make some contribution. I wish more people what spend some time on information and ideas on the companion app

great! Thank you...

If notifications to your Android phone are slow to arrive, add the "ttl: 0" and "priority: high" parameters to the data field of the notification data: tts_text: "your message" ttl:0 priority: high

Here is a working code for TTS using Node Red automation. [ { "id": "7ebee37fe43ae9f7", "type": "inject", "z": "c7219aadb5819763", "g": "b157d3905faac42b", "name": "", "props": [], "repeat": "", "crontab": "", "once": false, "onceDelay": 0.1, "topic": "", "x": 130, "y": 840, "wires": [ [ "222afc98ea8aa90a" ] ] }, { "id": "222afc98ea8aa90a", "type": "api-call-service", "z": "c7219aadb5819763", "g": "b157d3905faac42b", "name": "TTS \"Test message\"", "server": "2566f82f.919528", "version": 5, "debugenabled": false, "domain": "notify", "service": "mobile_app_your_phone", "areaId": [], "deviceId": [], "entityId": [], "data": "{\t \"message\": \"TTS\",\t \"data\": {\t \"tts_text\": \"Test message\",\t \"media_stream\": \"alarm_stream_max\",\t \"ttl\": 0,\t \"priority\": \"high\"\t }\t}", "dataType": "jsonata", "mergeContext": "", "mustacheAltTags": false, "outputProperties": [], "queue": "none", "x": 350, "y": 840, "wires": [ [] ] }, { "id": "2566f82f.919528", "type": "server", "name": "Home Assistant", "addon": true } ]

Thanks for the video. I did try to get count down alert to work with node red, but only get warning to open HA on the phone and try again. Can you help? [ { "id": "779b0721c42799a7", "type": "inject", "z": "c7219aadb5819763", "name": "", "props": [], "repeat": "", "crontab": "", "once": false, "onceDelay": 0.1, "topic": "", "x": 130, "y": 960, "wires": [ [ "d41a22eaf11ea675" ] ] }, { "id": "d41a22eaf11ea675", "type": "api-call-service", "z": "c7219aadb5819763", "name": "Count down Alert", "server": "2566f82f.919528", "version": 5, "debugenabled": false, "domain": "notify", "service": "mobile_app_your_phone", "areaId": [], "deviceId": [], "entityId": [], "data": "{\t \"message\": \"command_activity\",\t \"data\": {\t \"intent_package_name\": \"com.google.android.deskclock\",\t \"intent_action\": \"android.intent.action.SET_TIMER\",\t \"intent_extras\": \"'android.intent.extra.alarm.SKIP_UI:true,android.intent.extra.alarm.LENGTH:1'\"\t }\t}", "dataType": "jsonata", "mergeContext": "", "mustacheAltTags": false, "outputProperties": [], "queue": "none", "x": 330, "y": 960, "wires": [ [] ] }, { "id": "2566f82f.919528", "type": "server", "name": "Home Assistant", "addon": true } ]

Thank you! I also have too many "plain" notifications on my phone, which go unnoticed. I'll be setting these up for the home alarm, smoke alarm and water leak notifications. Maybe even for when my wife is getting close to home, so I can wrap up my tinkering ;-)

I have a use case for this. I have a chrome website i'd like to open at a certain time while working. so if i unlock my phone, it can be open and ready for me. I'm going to mess around with this a bit more. great video and information!

You are able to create CRITICAL notifications to IOS Devices, and you are able to send sound and notices for "Important things with new Iphones" The messages are critical and they will stay on you screen until they are dismissed. But if you have a iWatch on only the default sound comes through to it. You can control how loud the message will be. The sound have to be within the Companion App and there is a way to download your own sound too. Sample Code: service: notify.mobile_app_iphone data: message: Your Roommate has arrived title: Front Door data: push: sound: name: "US-EN-Morgan-Freeman-Roommate-Is-Arriving.wav" critical: 1 volume: .75 <---- 75% Volume This is a great way to make sure your truly Critical Notices are received... like water leakage, fire, or something that you cannot automatically control from HA. Hope this helps someone :)

Superior 🤣🤣

subs to subs ahaha

It’s a shame there is no way to trigger the alarm, so if one goes off, all can go off. This is a feature most modern smoke alarms have even if they aren’t smart devices. A bit of an oversight from the manufacturer I’d say. Deal breaker for me.

I have a Sensecap M2 Multiplatform LoRAWAN hub. It has the open source chirpstack V4 built in, which sends out MQTT messages. Still trying to figure the message out though. My only device till today was a Vision AI that says if a person is present currently, so I’ve not made this easy. Have a GPS tracker that arrived today. Will need to add it to chirpstack but chirpstack displays badly on small screens. In theory you just connect the LoRAWAN Hub via MQTT to Home Assistant, so you don’t really need extra work done. To save energy most of the devices are sensors and only connect to LoRaWAN intermittently but I’ve seen description of other “class” that seem suitable for effectors. Edited to add: pretty sure The Things Network has a cloud based MQTT client so you could connect it that way if you don’t mind the cloud.

The second one works fine even when my phone is off.

Like the intro!

As for Dishwaster I think better to link to power use, but I'm not sure how to do

These type of notifications are good for urgent or emergency notifications. Some alerts you don't want, but for those important alerts, this is good. It's a pity iPhones are still so locked down and not able to do the same things, but a cheap android device could be employed to alert, even if your main driver is an iPhone.

Looks great, I wounder if you could just use the cable in a U shape pattern to keep it submerged in water and test loss of water that way? for example, stick it in my Roborock s7 ultra clean water tank to get alerted when its under half empty....