This is cosmetic but it helps later especially if you'll have multiple databases from which to choose. I'm a Sitecore, OrderCloud and .Net developer, Dad, cyclist and all round nerd from Melbourne, Australia. Ive done all documented setup and double checked it. This is a basic way to look at the data captured by Home Assistant. So now we have the basic understanding of how to create a dashboard in Grafana (dont forget to hit the save button!!). Published by Oliver on 02.05.202102.05.2021. You can easily change what time period is displayed on the screen from the top-right menu. {% endif %}' The list of attribute names which should be reported as tags and not fields to InfluxDB. 2.xx - Defaults to us-west-2-1.aws.cloud2.influxdata.com for 2.xx, not localhost. Any ideas why this would be? I used this command on nm synology with DSM 6.1: sudo docker run -d name influxdb-grafana -p 3003:3003 -p 3004:8083 -p 8086:8086 -p 22022:22 -v /volume2/SSD/influxdb:/var/lib/influxdb -v /volume2/SSD/grafana:/var/lib/grafana philhawthorne/docker-influxdb-grafana:latest. 2018-01-24 15:01:23,770 INFO spawned: grafana with pid 1698 Btw there is one bug in Grafana which the team is pushing on InfluxDB about displaying no graphs for a queried time range if there was no value written to the DB. Remember to add your username and password if you set one up. Power levels reported by my Aeotec Smart Switch 6 units are recorded in attributes for example. But i cant seem to set username and password to protect it from the outside? The Influx admin panel was removed in a newer version of Influx in favour of Chronograf. From the Display tab, on the right-hand-side under Stacking & Null value, select Connected for Null value. Under the General tab, lets change the Panel Title to Temperatures. This supports templates. A addict that is. Youll be looking at changing the reporting intervals, and possibly group reports. Well, for the Home Assistant UI, once youve made your attributes their own sensors with template sensors it should be a simple matter of just adding the applicable entity_id to your groups file. These are great tools to see what the state of something was at a certain point in time, or what time an automation executed. Unfortunately youll need to SSH into the container on port 22022 and run the update commands manually for now. The cog icon saying "Configuration". We have two options now. Several other more or less random things :-). n/a If there's a tag named "entity_id" with that value, it will be dropped, and if instead there's a field, nothing will happen. and Jekyll. [custom_components.sensor.template] Could not render template Bewegingsmelder grote kamer: UndefinedError: sensor is undefined There is. FYI Influx is not generally used as a replacement for the main database but as a supplement. Great stuff Ill investigate! 2018-01-24 15:00:56,529 INFO exited: grafana (exit status 1; not expected) Click the "Next" button. Click "Select" button to go back to previous window. Click the select measurement and this time choose %. InfluxDB is an open source time series database, which makes it useful for recording metrics, events and performing analytics. Before we start setting up Grafana, lets first learn a bit about it. Had the same and had to change the Time interval on the upper right side to at least 1h, Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, I give up, just is not worth the time and effort. Using MQTT, the power and energy generation data from Huawei's FusionSolar Kiosk can be fed into Home . Or if your AC usage goes over X amount, send an alert that youre going to have an expensive day, and consider opening a window instead. Assign a name to the container (InfluxDB, for instance) and click "Advanced Settings". Thats an antipattern in docker. InfluxDB entity_id field in measurement field? We can configure Home Assistant to write data for some (or all) devices to this new database. influxdb: host: 192.168.1.110 port: !secret influx_port database: home_assistant username: !secret influx_username password: !secret influx_password Any way on how I can figure out if HA is actually writing to the bucket, or can you already tell that I do not write anything because I am missing an essential part? I already described how to use it with OpenHab in an earlier post. Exactly, warning not error. IP address or domain of your database host, e.g., 192.168.1.10. With most of our . This means that the data in this bucket will never be deleted. I have some good news and bad news for you. Can you give me a hint how to do it? The group function to be used. Seems very strange. You can set it to almost anything else, but then you'll always have to keep that in mind later. Might be an issue with the template youre using to extract them. This is the challenging part. I believe there is a Z-wave set config service, or it might be available from the Config panel. This will store all data points in a single measurement. This chart will display the outside temperature, well also include an area which will display the current temperature, and the highest and lowest temperatures for the time period specified. Then in the Axes tab, lets change the Left Y axes unit from short to Celsius/Farenheit. If omitted, then a filter of limit(n: 1) will be added to the end instead to restrict to one result per table. 2.xx only - Organization ID to read from. u/hellraiser thank you so much for this detailed tutorial! Theres also some great options to setup alerts. Yes it is and more than that. Next, we can add InfluxDB to our docker-compose.yaml file so docker will run the image. I might write a post for influxdb2 in the future, but no guarantees. Or we could choose just to aggregate all the sensors into one, and just display the Outside vs Inside temperature on this graph. Also, do a docker ps -a to see if the old container (which was running before the reboot) is still there, but just not running. I am Franck Nijhof, and I have 30 years of programming experience, in many languages. They will be different, depending on what your environment is, but it should be obvious that HomeAssistant is their source. OK thats interesting. Either way, you can try to drop your data like this: DROP SERIES FROM "gal" WHERE "entity_id" = 'water_meter'. {% endif %} Theres a few ways to install Grafana, but because Im using Home Assistant on my Synology NAS, Im going to use Docker. That dashboard looks sexy! Access from outside will not be possible. Or is that another sensor youve exposed? We'll create a couple more for better security and particular purpose. platform: template On the next screen I chose the "Quick Start" button, since I like that local db metric collection will be setup :-), Section 3 - Setting up access in Influx DB for HomeAssistant and Grafana. Here I select the "value" entry. I've got several Aeotec 6 sensors to monitor environment. Duration or time value to start range from. Where does the data for InfluxDB come from and where is it stored? Lets instead tell Grafana to join the lines together based on the previous reading. I had issues with Grafana not having permissions to the share I gave it on my Synology. The configuration can be done via the configuration.yaml file. Example InfluxQL: Login with default username and password of admin and admin. February 20, 2020. Theres lots of information on how to configure the export in the Home Assistant docs, which is what Ive used to create my very basic config that just takes a few fields that I want to be able to use. Home Assistant comes with a few options, but today were going to setup Grafana, which is a free and open source graphing dashboard that looks beautiful. However, I have a problem I am an addict. You can use "2.0" and get the latest version in v2. Hi Phil, Ive come back to this as I want to have persistent logs kept for my energy meters. The unique ID for this query. Influx vs Prometheus vs Timescale. These should limit resultset to one table, or any beyond the first will be ignored. There is a much better software for this: Grafana. Hey Phil , sorry for my late answer i had a packed day and thank you for your time, By using that command i am unable to access grafana afterwards. Database shows up up with all the fields, but zero values are populated. Once you've installed InfluxDB and got it running, all you need to do is create a database using the influx command to get to the InfluxDB command line: > create database home_assistant. My configuration file has this entry: Click the "Save" button. Needed with organization configuration variable. port: 3004. -p 3004:8083 My biggest problem with Hass.io is how slow the history tab is, and this completely fixes that. that makes it worse , grafana is then unable to connect to influxDB, When using the gui i noticed that no volumes are mapped i added them again via the gui but that didnt solve the issue either. Make sure the FROM is set to home_assistant and you filter on domain or entity_id first. If you use the default name of home_assistant for the database, haven't set any . Both running on docker on the same host Wait about a minute for the container to start, then open a web browser and point it to http://10.0.0.11:8086 (replace with your IP). Section 1 - Deploy InfluxDB 2.x in Docker. Paste this into explore the influxdb addon. Name of the bucket within your Organization to read from. InfluxDB is a scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics. 4. Any advise would be appreciated as to where i am going wrong, would be of help. For example, in InfluxDB Cloud it looks like this: https://us-west-2-1.aws.cloud2.influxdata.com/orgs/{OrganizationID}. Your query should not begin or end with a pipe (|>). Watch on. I would first chmod 777 the Grafana config, and see if that fixes it. MySQL. you could try this: Somehow I disagree. Lucky for you, I turn that C8H10N4O2 (caffeine molecule) into code (and add-ons)! It's useful for recording metrics, sensor data, events, and performing analytics. sensors: Now we should have something that looks better. Home Assistant basics II what the heck are automations, blueprints, scenes and scripts? Ill have to wait until this works in the released version If this is the only database I would also advise to toggle the default switch. This is optional, but highly recommended. Well, thankfully there's a trick that we can use. So I have no idea why its not working for you. Note that unlike the 1.xx queries, this does not default to mean. I mostly use InfluxDB own dashboards, they're enough for me, to be honest, I haven't seen the advantage of having Grafana querying it's data yet. So it should be pretty seamless. To do it via ssh [emailprotected] -p 22022 and then to edit the file doesnt work for me anymore. I'll be assuming that you've got HA running already and configured with some sensors and whatnot. Where does the data for InfluxDB come from and where is it stored? In "InfluxDB Details" section under "Organization" enter the one you defined in InfluxDB. Great article! It exposes an HTTP API for client interaction and if often used in combination with Grafana to visualize the data. P.S. Integrating into Home Assistant. 2.xx only - List of sensors to expose in Home Assistant. Your Grafana instance is now configured to retrieve and display data from InfluxDB. By default, no entity will be excluded. your more machine than man. [emailprotected]:~# docker run -d name docker-influxdb-grafana -p 3003:3003 -p 3004:8083 -p 8086:8086 -p 22022:22 -v /path/for/influxdb:/var/lib/influxdb -v /path/for/grafana:/var/lib/grafana restart=always philhawthorne/docker-influxdb-grafana:latest Lets switch over to Grafana to use this data. This can be useful if you have home-assistant running on the . Lets break down the setup into separate steps for creating the database and then hooking it up to Home Assistant. host: 144.0.0.13 Go ahead and drag a Singlestat onto your dashboard. It does not replace it. Now that our database is created and listening on port 8086 we can tell Home Assistant to start using it. Youll need to be able to edit the Home Assistant config, which might be by SSH, or via the File Editor plugin from the Home Assistant interface. influxdb: host: 192.168.1.64 username: homeassistant password: passwd . If you feel more comfortable doing that, check the InfluxDB documentation on how to add users to InfluxDB. Here it's best if you set the "Local Port" section to 8086. The database must already exist. Ever feel restricted by the Home Assistant UI on how it shows data over a long time? Anyone has a query to delete any/all data and entity itself from influx? So I thought it would be easier to ship my data out from here as a "centeral point" using Node-Red. Go to the "Image" section of the Docker app and double-click the downloaded Grafana image. mount type=bind,source=/volume1/docker/grafana,target=/var/lib/grafana Once the access is possible you can connect Home Assistant to the database by using a configuration like this: Details can be found here but this small setup is good enough for me. Section 4 - Configure HomeAssistant to write data to InfluxDB. What are you tracking or hoping to track in your Grafana dashboard? Hopefully they fix that in a future release. It tells me that its syntactically correct, but returns no values. If you want to avoid access from the outside but still need to open the database (e.g. While this language was available in 1.xx installations, it was not the default and not used in the API so you may not be aware of it. I would suggest that you monitor storage consumption increase on a daily basis to determine if this will be an issue for you or not. I had to chown it with 472:472. Youll see a blue AND appear. The logbook shows last actions, while this gives me insights in the history. docker: Error response from daemon: Bind mount failed: /path/for/influxdb does not exists. a few are the aeotec multisensors and one is a zwave schlage door lock. # The InfluxDB organisation that the bucket will belong to. n/a 2018-06-18 14:38:55 ERROR (SyncWorker_5) [homeassistant.components.influxdb] Database host is not accessible due to HTTPConnectionPool(host=10.0.0.254, port=8086): Max retries exceeded with url: /query?q=SHOW+SERIES+LIMIT+1%3B&db=home_assistant (Caused by NewConnectionError(: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 113] No route to host,)), please check your entries in the configuration file (host, port, etc.) Ill probably add those back just to keep last few days of data as fallback but good to know InfluxDB is not dependent on it. Watch on. DSMR reader for home-assistant using MQTT. Open HomeAssistant "configuration.yaml" file. USE "homeassistant"; DELETE FROM "C " WHERE "entity_id" = 'tasmota_analog_temperature_2' AND time < '2021-04-04', Here is an additional link explaining some concepts: InfluxDB. Port 3003 works: I see the page from Grafana /config/configuration.yaml. Or how often your Rain Bird watering system should water your garden, based on how quickly the moisture in the soil dries out. 2018-01-24 15:01:09,651 INFO exited: grafana (exit status 1; not expected) The last thing to do is to extract the token values, because we'll need them soon. If things are good, you should now see in the top part of the window the graph representing contents of your query. I am stuck though with this error in HASSIO logs, Setup failed for influxdb: Component failed to initialize. You have the option of reviewing your settings and then click "Done" when you're ready to start the container. Thank you! Im actually testing it out for a few weeks now, almost ready for release I think. On the left side choose the seventh icon from the top. Hi Phil, This is us setting up Grafana so it knows where to pull our stats from. If you are using Docker and both containers are on the same network you can simply reach it via containername:port. When it did I found it limiting would this be a suitable replacement? If so, a docker restart on it might bring it back with the data still there if youre lucky. After saving, I strongly recommend validating the changes by using the Check configuration button on the developer tab. Username and password (for the homeassistant user in the database we created above) needs to be put into the secrets.yaml file in the form of influxdb_user:homeassistant. Thats strange. Go to the Legend tab then lets select Min, Max and Current to be shown. Hmm to be honest I havent taken much thought about that, as the data is housed on my NAS (where I dont really care too much about storage limits for now). Restart is important, otherwise nothing will happen. This will create a new query under B. Click on the "Tokens" tab. If you do, then click on the "Submit" button on the extreme right side of the screen. I set this up myself a few months ago, but found limited use. Now its time for the main event. See Customizing devices and services for format. Lets click Panel Title to bring up the context menu to edit the graph. Grafana is connecting to the DB without any issue Both are running in docker, both are in the opt_default docker network and have local IPs in the same subnet. Lovelace History Graph Not Updating since 0.91.1 & 0.91.2. Forget Grafana for now, start at the data source. Tokens are (for our purposes) a replacement for user accounts. In my case it's HomeAssistant. : homeassistant/raspberrypi3-homeassistant, "http://localhost:8086/query?q=show+databases", "http://localhost:8086/query?pretty=true", The first service mentioned is the Home Assistant service. Wow, once I figured out how to use a tenth of its capabilities, this thing is amazing! Duration or time value to stop range at. In this case this is /var/lib/influxdb2 Click on the "Port Settings" tab. include or exclude blocks can be used to control what data should be saved to influxDB. In my case this is living_temperature_198 which comes from my Vera Lite. I want to get the current InfluxDB database size of homeassistant . Got started with a nice System-Monitor Dash. What component is it? Section 9 - Creating first graph in Grafana. The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: As I want to be able to store the data from InfluxDB and Grafana, I created my own Docker image which allows that. I also included my phones battery and my printer ink status for fun and added some stats for my Adguard network wide ad blocker. You are better off with a SQL store like MariaDB if you want to do that. I set up InfluxDB and Grafana with my Home Assistant installation and will show you how to do this in no time in this blog post. Anyone knows how can I do that ? 1.xx only - Name of the database to use. If theres some awesome new features etc that make the upgrade worth it, I might update the image to those versions too. Trying to show the volume of my Sonos using singlestat and its working. If I determine that the Supervised HA doesn't hold any particular benefits for me, I'll most likely migrate that to Docker as well in the future. So I decided to create one myself to help people to have a basic start with such deployment. 2.xx - Defaults to true for 2.xx, false otherwise false. So, choose your username and password. In my case normal load CPU load is about 20%, with glances running it nearly doubled. Check the logs of the InfluxDB to see if everything went well. Influx had big breaking changes from v1 to v2, so I'm personally avoiding the latest tag. No, there is no way to get this on Hassbian, add-ons are a Hassio feature. Please be aware of the underlying InfluxDB mechanism that converts non-string attributes to strings and adds a _str suffix to the attribute name in this case. I chose docker/Grafana. To test, can you change your docker run command to. Home Assistant basics Read more, Home Assistant is maybe the best open smart home controller out there but if you are new to it some of the terms can be a bit confusing. In the next blog post, Ill detail how we can use Grafanato further visualize the data, rather than using command line queries. It sounds like the Home Assistant container cant access the InfluxDB container. Port 3004 not works: server not respond Now that everything is set up I can always pretty easily add more data in the future. Hi Phil, Now you can tweak things to your liking, create additional panels, queries and whatnot. InfluxDB adds a data type to every measurement value after it records the first measurement. Port to use. Check the InfluxDB documentation on Home Assistant for the complete list of configuration. Now lets go and connect it to Home Assistant. (sorry for al those questions). Thanks for the heads up about Glances. Just remember that youll only be able to report on values with numbers. 2018-01-24 15:01:11,721 INFO success: grafana entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 1 seconds (sta It is not the only add-on I have created; there are many many more. 1.xx only - The username of the database user. Try this. The influxdb integration makes it possible to transfer all state changes to an external InfluxDB database. Battery percentages over time, see how quickly batteries are used across your sensors to identify which ones are depleting the quickest, Power usage for main appliances like TVs, Fridges, Heaters and Airconditioners, Moisture levels in your indoor plants (I use the, Download rates for applications like Transmission, TV Volume Level (I can see what volume levels my, Humidity Levels in bathrooms to see what time of day people are showering or whos having extra long showers (. Looks awsome, anyway to get this into a normal hassbian or is it only hass.io? In this blog post I'll elaborate how I managed to get long term data history for my home assistant setup with InfluxDB. All Flux queries require a range filter, one is automatically added to the beginning of your Flux query in the form of range(start: {range_start}, stop: {range_stop}). There is also useful -precision option to set format of timestamp. Im rather confident the issue is with me, but after googling InfluxDB and reading through examples, playing with variants of possibilities Im out of good answers for what Im doing wrong here. If a HA entity becomes stable and it has sense to collect its data, I include this entity to the DB configuration. If you are looking for more details you can check out my other article about Grafana and OpenHab where I go into some more detail or install new panels/datasources/ from the Grafana plugin page. While it works with a bunch of them InfluxDB is the preferred one in most cases. Hi Phil, Im wondering how to edit the grafana.ini? Thanks in advance for a short hint and support. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. There is an interesting absence of guides available for this. Great for a wall mounted display that needs to display realtime stats, like temperatures etc. You could of course install Influxdata software yourself, but that is out of scope for this topic, Really cool addon thanks. My InfluxDB folder is about 350 MB large after about two days. Click the "Add Folder" button and choose the location on your host filesystem, where Grafana will be storing its persistent data. First you need to configuration datasources and set up InfluxDB as a new source. thanks for writing this up, I've been looking to switch databases on HA. Grafana needs a separate database in the background to load the data from. Enjoy your add-on, while I enjoy the brain juice. The list of entity ids to be excluded from recording to InfluxDB. If the Home Assistant container is running in host mode or on a different machine you need to forward the 8086 port from the dabase container so that it is available from the outside. Thank you so much again @frenck , you truly are amazing. So the idea is working and values can be deleted, but the UX is not really good. My current Grafana dashboard is still pretty simple but it gives me a very quick overview about the state of my smart home. great guides! Path to use if your InfuxDB is running behind a reverse proxy. With saying that, when Ive upgraded I never had any data loss, either from Grafana or Influx. Section 1 - Deploy InfluxDB 2.x in Docker You can create as many dashboards as you want and then import the same in Home . SQL vs NoSQL Explained. Basically if you have sensors who only occasionally update your graphs might be empty because Grafana is not able to just display the latest value. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/74d7d5c1b2d72bb85e1cfbe6919afc6c1400ad447fe8a0a773a8437120be8124.jpg I have a feeling its a polling issue or something because the battery levels show after a restart of HA. Use a binary template sensor, with the template doing an if speaker_a playing or speaker_b playing etc, then something is playing. -host and -port options can be omitted if command is run on local InfluxDB host. I did it according to your proposal and indeed the upgrade went seamless. A very simple setup . Sqlite DB corruption - migration to other engine? On the left menu click on the "InfluxDB Admin". About Home Assistant. If you want the graphs inside the UI, Im not 100% sure how to go about this. The same for me here. First, is the database. Try opening the webpage for Influx and creating a query. You might be able to use a template sensor for that. If youre using my Docker container, heres how Ive set it up. I am not sure if HASSIO supports this though. Enter the following configuration into it: Make sure to replace the IP address, token value (the HomeAssistant - Write token) and potentially port, organization and bucket values with what you have setup. Grafana can be used to read this data and display some very pretty graphs. By the way: In order to get the new versions I had to use the edge flag instead of latest, is that the correct way to use? If you want to build dynamic panels or see my newer dashboard then checkout this post. I did it in one evening. rtsecs) 1.xx only - Verify SSL certificate for HTTPS request. One difference is that the guide recommended to replace the location of HAs database with a real data base also hosted somewhere. I initially used the glances container along with the plugin, but reverted to HA native sensors + some CLI sensors as the glances set up is significantly resource consuming. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. You can learn more about it from their documentation or by using the query builder in the UI. We now have a basic Singlestat added to the dashboard. Remember, you dont need to be running Home Assistant and InfluxDB on the same server, thats just how Ive got it currently set up. 2018-06-18 14:38:55 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Setup failed for influxdb: Component failed to initialize. I did that change some weeks ago and follows a slightly outdated guide but got it working. Make sure you are running the latest version of Home Assistant before reporting an issue. Well use this account to setup the dashboards. This attribute contains domain-specific integration override values. A sensor will be created for each query: Note that 2.xx installations of InfluxDB only support queries in their Flux language. The list of attribute names to ignore when reporting to InfluxDB. Thanks a lot for your reply. I chose docker/influxdb. By default this is going to send everything to InfluxDB. It is stored inside the add-ons persistent storage space (usually referred to as /data in the Hassio world). Here is a quick explanation what automations, blueprints, scenes and scripts are in Home Assistant. Bucket is an InfluxDB name for a database. You should only file an issue if you found a bug. The add-on you are currently looking at right now was developed/packaged by me. If youre worried, I would suggest taking a backup of your influxdb and grafana mount folders. Genius, thanks a lot. What is your congiruation YAML like for connecting to Influx? So, from my Google research it looks like you have to set the connection pool when connecting to InfluxDB.
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