I chose docker/Grafana. If you just want to create sensors for an external InfluxDB database and you dont want Home Assistant to write any data to it you can exclude all entities like this: To configure this sensor, you need to define the sensor connection variables and a list of queries to your configuration.yaml file. For example, if set to friendly_name, it will be possible to group by entities friendly names as well, in addition to their ids. and verify that the database exists and is READ/WRITE The influxdb sensor allows you to use values from an InfluxDB database to populate a sensor state. Lets switch over to Grafana to use this data. Just remember that youll need to give your user read/write access for Home Assistant to write data into InfluxDB. Next, we can add InfluxDB to our docker-compose.yaml file so docker will run the image. You could for example, have a user account for downstairs, and one for upstairs. In "Auth" section turn off the "Basic auth" option. Click on the "Tokens" tab. 2018-06-18 14:38:55 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Setup of domain influxdb took 7.1 seconds. We could choose to display each rooms temperature sensor individually. Add your timezone in the environment variables, so that you'll have proper timestamps in your database entries. Hopefully they fix that in a future release. Thats very annoying (and another reason for me not to upgrade DSM). If so, a docker restart on it might bring it back with the data still there if youre lucky. Home Assistant Community Add-on: InfluxDB, Home Assistant Community Add-ons Discord chat server. Created dashboards are not stored persistently. The list of domains to be excluded from recording to InfluxDB. Watch on. Great stuff Ill investigate! Im getting a lot of error messages on the HA panels. As a habit, Ive always created template sensors to extract the battery levels so I can display them in Home Assistant. We tend to think of this data as sensor readings. When you're done click the "Submit" button on the right. Home Assistant basics II what the heck are automations, blueprints, scenes and scripts? Hello Phil, I just installed the InfluxDB-Grafana docker. This will store all data points in a single measurement. Thats what I have in for my setup as well. Once some data has been exported into InfluxDB, you should be able to see your entities data like this: I hope this has been helpful. In very short time you can create a custom dashboard that includes diagrams or current status numbers for your devices. Home Assistant comes with a recording component already, however, the more data that your Home Assistant setup records, youll see the limitation of this built-in functionality. 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. I am stuck though with this error in HASSIO logs, Setup failed for influxdb: Component failed to initialize. 2018-01-24 15:00:57,596 INFO reaped unknown pid 1578 Home assistant makes it super-easy to capture data from devices around your home by adding plugins, and it makes that data available in the history tab, so you can keep track of whats going on, like this. 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'm monitoring temperature and humidity in all the rooms. My battery sensors all of a sudden show N/A% even though my other sensors are still giving data. Just installed grafana and influxdb on Synology and configure them with HomeAssistant and just love this. I strongly recommend that you do not name the user "admin" or "administrator". Now for the grafana graphs. Now were going to make the following adjustments to the graph: Now you should have data on your graph, but something looks wrong? Lets take a look at some questions you might be able to answer by analyzing your sensor data over longer periods. It's really, really easy because HA supports InfluxDB out of the box. Just as I'm typing this, maybe it is possible to fit an array of values in a sensor entity and use that to create a historic graph in HA. Usually if you set up a new panel you just need to add queries (at the bottom menu) for each item you want to display here. Verify SSL certificate for HTTPS request. As you may notice while it is easy to create it is not great either. You will instantly see the result in the preview. After you have installed InfluxDB, click Start and than open it's Web UI. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. I submit this to assist others who may ned to know how to delete data from InfluxDB via the InfluxDB UI in HASSIO. The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: Also, I hope this can help newbies (like me) get your image started, here are the commands I had to use (DSM 6.1 did not like -v): mount type=bind,source=/volume1/docker/influxdb,target=/var/lib/influxdb, mount type=bind,source=/volume1/docker/grafana,target=/var/lib/grafana, philhawthorne/docker-influxdb-grafana:latest. In the past we could simply select entries and have a graph show up. If theres an update needed to InfluxDB, my container wont get it yet either. Hi Following the instructions has a - in the username, which you may or may not have copied. this is the error Node-RED is a flow-based development tool for visual programming which can be added to home assistant as a integration / add-on. Great tutorials! Switch back to the Grafana tab in your browser. Something like. Measurement name to use instead of unit or default measurement. If youre familiar with relational databases like MySQL orPostgreSQL, InfluxDB is similar but excels at managing time series data. My approach to cleanup the InfluxDB: Execute the query: SHOW TAG VALUES ON "homeassistant" WITH KEY = "entity_id" and create a dashboard of if. This tutorial is going to outline how to add InfluxDB to the docker-compose.yml file and setup on a Raspberry Pi. Im used to traditional SQL, so I may have some blindspot when Im looking at a familiar, but different approach to data. Influx had big breaking changes from v1 to v2, so I'm personally avoiding the latest tag. The list of attribute names to ignore when reporting to InfluxDB. let me know if that works for you. I am not sure if HASSIO supports this though. There are a couple of InfluxDB docker images floating around for the Raspberry Pi, but I went with this one. Recreating the database seems to have got it working, but Ive now lost all the history am I missing something with ensuring persistence of data here?? If you wish, you could continue and select specific sensors or just decide that this is sufficient for the test. I was looking for a long time how to use influxdb 2.0 and before finding this post I wasn't even sure Home Assistant supported it! I mentioned that I create template sensors for extracting the battery levels for my devices. Then use the new sensor.sonos_volume in your Grafana instance. It's useful for recording metrics, sensor data, events, and performing analytics. Maybe the second most important job is to give a good overview over the current state of your home. So I'll let you build it yourself by clicking through filters in the bottom half of the window. mount type=bind,source=/volume1/docker/influxdb,target=/var/lib/influxdb Then also choose an organization name and a bucket (database) name. Assign a name (for instance HomeAssistant - Write). We'll repeat the process for Grafana read token. [emailprotected]:~#. Possible values: unit_of_measurement, domain__device_class or entity_id. I snaffled your docker-hub image and ran it up to try and its awesome. Because of the amount of data Home Assistant is collecting, storing that data can become quite cumbersome. 2:49 PM components/influxdb.py (ERROR). You will be prompted to set a new password. Needed with organization configuration variable. Yes, I recently upgraded the versions of software, which has resulted in some slightly updated port numbers. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d20cd6c34fa82ceab129f58c5d37191e134a54f743e68ac87ee56548cdc69055.png. Unfortunately, each device is slightly different, so youll need to consult the instruction manual for each device. But yeah you can also install influxdb as an addon in the HA VM if you are using hass.io, however it's only version 1.7 at the moment I believe. 2018-01-24 15:01:23,770 INFO spawned: grafana with pid 1698 In my case I've got several temperature sensors setup in HomeAssistant. SELECT "value" FROM "homeassistant"."autogen". Reduce the complexity until something . Although I cant see why not exactly. Most of the time I am online at the Discord chat. In this blog post I'll elaborate how I managed to get long term data history for my home assistant setup with InfluxDB. Could be a permissions issue. Now lets go and connect it to Home Assistant. First off, well grab the docker image that will have the InfluxDB installation. Well, thankfully there's a trick that we can use. Someone created the needed drivers for the docker implementation of this but stopped working on them and they're not available for my version of DSM. Im using docker on my Raspberry Pi 3+ right now to manage my Home Assistant configuration. You now have a new databases and a user that can read and write to it. Or when the sensor wakes? Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics. First, lets query InfuxDB and look at all the different sensor data it is storing. You can also exclude certain items or domains. Once again click the Panel Title and then Edit. So, choose your username and password. Click on the "Add data source" button. To test that InfluxDB is working correctly and the database was created we can use its REST API. O want to view config because I installed telegraf but it cant write in influxdb. SHOW TAG KEYS ON "" FROM " eg: C", Query template: Will be merged with the default ignore_attributes list when processing a state change event for a particular entity. Then I've got several other things configured for monitoring such as Synology NAS, router to monitor UL/DL speed and one or two other things that don't generate a lot of data. 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 need to do the following steps in order to get this working: Click on "OPEN WEB UI" to open the admin web-interface provided by this add-on. The leading sign indicates a warning, but there is nothing to be worried about. The battery sensor or the Grafana charts? Assign a name to the container (Grafana, for instance) and click "Advanced Settings". InfluxDB entity_id field in measurement field? Execute the query: SHOW TAG VALUES ON "homeassistant" WITH KEY = "entity_id" and create a dashboard of if. Before we start we need to make sure though that the database is reachable from the Home Assistant host. I want to get the current InfluxDB database size of homeassistant . Both running on docker on the same host When I create a new item, that is the default interval grouping. So in your configuration.yaml you do have to setup the InfluxDB integration. platform: template So I think it has something to do with template.py ? That is it. Go back to Synology Docker and open the "Registry" section again. Wow, once I figured out how to use a tenth of its capabilities, this thing is amazing! 1.xx only - List of sensors to expose in Home Assistant. There are a lot of possibilities here, just play around with it a bit. One for HomeAssistant to be able to write to the bucket another for Grafana to be able to read from the bucket. This will help to keep the config file clean, and means the integration config can easily be removed if required. 2018-01-24 15:00:57,532 INFO spawned: grafana with pid 1565 Then you can easily restore back to the older version if necessary. Then, I would change the IP address from 127.0.0.1 to the network IP address (example 192.168.1.2), I get the same thing Phil. It may not save the last poll value over restarts though. If you want to build dynamic panels or see my newer dashboard then checkout this post. It looks like grafana cant start properly, do you have any clue why? Measurement name to use instead of measurement_attr or default measurement. Any idea how I could pull data from influxdb and create new sensors in HA please? - The question mark represents a single character. There is. Exactly, warning not error. Youll be looking at changing the reporting intervals, and possibly group reports. fantastic - these apply directly to running on docker on my Mac! Out-of-the-box Home Assistant has a recorder and history component. See the official installation documentation for how to set up an InfluxDB database, or there is a community add-on available. Lowers and rises blinds in bedroom automatically, when I turn lights on or off after dark, Turns on red Hue bulb outside of my study, when I'm on a WebEx call. Thank you. Check the logs of the InfluxDB to see if everything went well. But I think it has nothing to do with your code.Im sorry about that So, this would have to be done from Home Assistant. Hi Phil, Home Assistant. To do so, modify your Home Assistant configuration.yaml to include the details of your InfluxDB installation. Ill wait for this fix to bubble up to Home Assistant before I look at upgrading versions in my container (I try to live by if its not broken, dont fix it). You can always try to get support from the community here at the Home Assistant community forums, join the conversation! Home Assistant basics what the heck are devices, entities, integrations and services. Check the InfluxDB documentation on Home Assistant for the complete list of configuration. Grafana "Local Port" defaults to 3000. Also check the username and password for influxdb. 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. The second part is the interface. I have a question. We'll be presented with the InfluxDB Web Interface. Lets instead tell Grafana to join the lines together based on the previous reading. Click the Edit button to open the graph editor at the bottom of the screen. Well use this account to setup the dashboards. Although this works for me, it might not work for you, or there might be other attribute data you might want to track. PS: I already tried to install influxdb (outside Home Assistant) but I can't have an access to the database I'm using in my HA. Valid values are 1 or 2. Sets the default database for sensors, individual sensors can also read from a different database. The built-in history tool is a little bit more powerful but also not that much better. The influxdb integration makes it possible to transfer all state changes to an external InfluxDB database. (sorry for al those questions). Maybe the entity_id has changed or something. Here I cannot give you detailed steps as the query selection depends on what you want. Once the data is stored in the database you can analyze it for trends, create graphs and use the data in other applications. If omitted, then a filter of limit(n: 1) will be added to the end instead to restrict to one result per table. You can do that using the iFrame panel component. If you want to the same simple setup I am using just head over to my GitHub repository The setup is really easy and already includes a container for Grafana and one for the database I am using here: InfluxDB. It tells me that its syntactically correct, but returns no values. -p 8086:8086 InfluxDB is a scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics. If theres some awesome new features etc that make the upgrade worth it, I might update the image to those versions too. Hi Phil, If it doesnt use home-assistant_v2.db, can logbook: and history: be removed from configuration.yaml or is there some dependency? In my setup Grafana is in the same Docker network as the InfluxDB database so you can access it directly via the Docker container name (influxdb in this case). Add a comment. Configure which integrations should be excluded from recording to InfluxDB. Do you have any idea where thi could come from ? Here we will point Grafana towards the bucket on the InfluxDB server. Be sure that what you put in the -v /path/for/influxdb:/var/lib/influxdb exists and writeable. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Ill try to limit requests as suggested for the time being. The one with the + sign, named "Create". Watch on. battery_entry_sensor: If someone has access to all my Grafana dashboards, theres probably bigger problems to solve first. What is your congiruation YAML like for connecting to Influx? Now lets add the fancy gauges. # Home Assistant Community Add-on: InfluxDB InfluxDB is an open source time series database optimized for high-write-volume. Once youre happy that the changes are valid, hit the restart button on the same tab. Like in section 5, where we verified operation, we'll create a query. I haven't yet had time to dig into details of this thing :-), Followed your config and the integration worked perfectly, thank you for posting. A sensor will be created for each query: Note that 2.xx installations of InfluxDB only support queries in their Flux language. That should fix it for you. Unfortunately, the process manager inside the container wont display any errors from Grafana. 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). rtsecs) This will store all data points in a single measurement. host: 144.0.0.13 Thanks Phil will have a poke tonight! Thanks! 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. In the mean time I managed to create the necessary database and users through the CLI instead so all up and running now. The edge tag will always have the latest and greatest that I have upgraded it to. 2.xx only - Organization ID to read from. When it did I found it limiting would this be a suitable replacement? port: 3004. Not exactly sure why the data does not show up. Anyway of showing as a correct percentage? Agree re Synologys Docker UI had a poke and useful for simple stuff, but bit limited. Duration or time value to start range from. That will bind the container to the host network, which will hopefully work. Therefore you need to add a WHERE clause to the query to filter out values. Your Grafana instance is now configured to retrieve and display data from InfluxDB. The list of domains to be included in recording to InfluxDB. (Configure Filter). Unfortunately youll need to SSH into the container on port 22022 and run the update commands manually for now. You're back at the initial Docker create window. Infact, theres been a fix put in place on the InfluxDB side, after some others reported the same here: https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb-python/issues/349, I can see theres a pull request to add a new paramater to Home Assistant which will fix this here: https://github.com/simpss/home-assistant/pull/1. In this case this is /var/lib/grafana Click on the "Port Settings" tab. How much light does the living room get in winter months, compared to summer months? Or how often your Rain Bird watering system should water your garden, based on how quickly the moisture in the soil dries out. I chose docker/influxdb. Grafana allows you to setup Dashboards with graphs and widgets. adguardhome-sync is a small tool that allows you to set up an auto synced backup instance for Adguard Read more, Home Assistant is an awesome system but when you get started the terminology can be confusing. Hey Vince, thanks. These files can get pretty big over time, so well want to keep our long-term data somewhere else. 1.xx only - The username of the database user. 2018-01-24 15:01:11,721 INFO success: grafana entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 1 seconds (sta Defines a template to extract a value from the payload. What are you tracking or hoping to track in your Grafana dashboard? Just something for you to check and make sure that is what you wanted. The lines dont seem to match up. 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. THanks for helping me out Phil, but I still have the same error. Section 1 - Deploy InfluxDB 2.x in Docker Using CLI tool influx you can set csv output format for results: influx -host your_host -port 8086 -database 'your_db' -execute 'select * from your_metric' -format 'csv'. Its useful for recording metrics, sensor data, events, and performing analytics. Ive been pointed in the direction of a bug within Chronograf. Just note that if you ever destroy the container, the updates will be lost. Seems to work with $interval. rtsecs). and verify that the database exists and is READ/WRITE not sure what you mean. I have been renaming the tags within Grafana as they come in as gibberish, What does the "friendly_name" section do? Maybe Home Assistant only reads the temperature outside once an hour from Dark Sky. You can create as many dashboards as you want and then import the same in Home . MySQL. Defines a template to extract a value from the payload. What component is it? Choose the "Latest" tag and click on the "Select" button. Name of the bucket within your Organization to read from. I get to influxdb but nothing under http://serveraddress:3003. Straight away youll see the gauge appear. Restart is important, otherwise nothing will happen. Oh, one of the great things about using InfluxDB is that you could have it running on a separate machine. You can always change the retention, so that data gets dropped after a certain period. Generally, battery devices will send out their battery devices to the z-wave network once every 24 hours. include or exclude blocks can be used to control what data should be saved to influxDB. The influxdb integration makes it possible to transfer all state changes to an external InfluxDB database. At the moment we'll be interested in the "Data" section which is third icon from the top on the left side of the GUI. Thanks. Needed with username configuration variable. One difference is that the guide recommended to replace the location of HAs database with a real data base also hosted somewhere. 2.xx - Defaults to true for 2.xx, false otherwise false. While it works with a bunch of them InfluxDB is the preferred one in most cases. And I'm betting that Flux will be default going forward, so let's bite the bullet now :-), In "HTTP" section under "URL" enter address and port of the InfluxDB container. This is where I leave you. We now have a basic Singlestat added to the dashboard. Select the whole query and copy it into clipboard. Click "Select" button to go back to previous window. Got started with a nice System-Monitor Dash. You should only file an issue if you found a bug. InfluxDB is an open source time series database optimized for high-write-volume. So I decided to create one myself to help people to have a basic start with such deployment. In most cases you can leave the default query as is and just select the entity you are looking for in the FROM part. Click on "Environment" tab. Without using additional components the layout is quite strange and the diagrams while looking nice are missing a lot of important data. One question with the docker image: How do you increase the influcdb connection pool? $__interval should be used instead.. strings, date, experimental/query, etc. {{ states.zwave.fibaro_system_fgms001zw5_motion_sensor.attributes.battery_level }} Again just take some time and play around with those values. I think the default retention period is 6 months, but yes longer periods might become something to think about. After a restart Home Assistant will now start writing data to the InfluxDB database. In my case this is living_temperature_198 which comes from my Vera Lite. The database must already exist. To do it via ssh [emailprotected] -p 22022 and then to edit the file doesnt work for me anymore. You have the option of reviewing your settings and then click "Done" when you're ready to start the container. If data is showing up than your Home Assistant and InfluxDB configuration is working. All that is left to do is to tweak this a bit, by assigning a title to the panel and saving the dashboard by clicking the "Save" button on the top-right corner. unit_of_measurement: '%' You can still create aggregate metrics across multiple sensors 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. I need to find ways to import the graphs back into Home Assistant now! You will have to assign a name for the dashboard, click "Save" again and you're done. Once it restarts, Home Assistant should start sending data to InfluxDB.

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