https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d20cd6c34fa82ceab129f58c5d37191e134a54f743e68ac87ee56548cdc69055.png. This means that in a home scenario you'll most likely just have one. For now, just use the :edge tag in your docker run statement, and youll have some newer versions to use! This is us setting up Grafana so it knows where to pull our stats from. So I'll let you build it yourself by clicking through filters in the bottom half of the window. This allows changing the name, icon and entity_id from the web interface. The user needs read/write privileges on the database. The more information your smart home has, the smarter it can be. This supports templates. This is cosmetic but it helps later especially if you'll have multiple databases from which to choose. In very short time you can create a custom dashboard that includes diagrams or current status numbers for your devices. On the left side choose the seventh icon from the top. EDIT: I personally prefer the include-only configuration of the InfluxDB. My approach to cleanup the InfluxDB: 2018-01-24 15:01:22,767 INFO exited: grafana (exit status 1; not expected) The battery sensor or the Grafana charts? Like before, set your timezone. Set this to specify the time precision sent to influxdb. Do I have to take special care on anything here? from http://docs.grafana.org/reference/templating/ Go to the Legend tab then lets select Min, Max and Current to be shown. Out-of-the-box Home Assistant has a recorder and history component. Duration or time value to stop range at. For general repository issues or add-on ideas. The example configuration entry below create two request to your local InfluxDB instance, one to the database db1, the other to db2: Note that when working with Flux queries, the resultset is broken into tables, you can see how this works in the Data Explorer of the UI. You might be able to use a template sensor for that. Created dashboards are not stored persistently. The leading sign indicates a warning, but there is nothing to be worried about. You get an overview of entities in the DB. Assign a name (for instance HomeAssistant - Write). 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 will store all data points in a single measurement. In most cases you can leave the default query as is and just select the entity you are looking for in the FROM part. 2018-06-17 21:10:03 ERROR (SyncWorker_3) [homeassistant.components.influxdb] Database host is not accessible due to HTTPConnectionPool(host=127.0.0.1, 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 111] Connection refused,)), please check your entries in the configuration file (host, port, etc.) Click on the "Data" icon. 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 I try port 8083 I see the page from Chronograf but it asks me to create a connection and I dont know how to create the home assistant database. You will instantly see the result in the preview. If you just add the integration without an exclude, Home Assistant will begin to write data into InfluxDB. Another option to display data is Singlestat. As an aside is there any GUI-focused ways to control docker containers? and our And it can easily be integrated with Home Assistant. Port 8086 not works: error 404 page not found Or we could choose just to aggregate all the sensors into one, and just display the Outside vs Inside temperature on this graph. 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. 2018-01-24 15:00:57,596 INFO reaped unknown pid 1578 Now we have to use the Flux query language which expects us to type things in. Or how often your Rain Bird watering system should water your garden, based on how quickly the moisture in the soil dries out. That is it. I'm monitoring temperature and humidity in all the rooms. All thanks to you @frenck Too bad I dont have more time to play with it, dying to try the SonWeb Add-on. No, there is no way to get this on Hassbian, add-ons are a Hassio feature. Otherwise I love dockers. Does the component expose its own outside_garage_door_battery sensor? Restart is important, otherwise nothing will happen. Press the + button next to the entity_id to add to the query. Im used to traditional SQL, so I may have some blindspot when Im looking at a familiar, but different approach to data. Click on the "Volume" tab. 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. 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.) Any ideas why this would be? Database and user are the ones we created above. 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 copied the following docker run command: docker run -d If you want the graphs inside the UI, Im not 100% sure how to go about this. Now that our database is created and listening on port 8086 we can tell Home Assistant to start using it. I've been working in web development with CMSs and e-commerce for over 20 years. Great stuff Ill investigate! Here I cannot give you detailed steps as the query selection depends on what you want. Havent used that yet, but good to know its a bit hungry. I mentioned that I create template sensors for extracting the battery levels for my devices. Unfortunately, each device is slightly different, so youll need to consult the instruction manual for each device. ? How do I update Grafana and Influxdb? Although I cant see why not exactly. Go to Synology Docker app and in the "Registry" section search for "InfluxDB" and double-click the top entry. Here it's best if you set the "Local Port" section to 8086. A smart home captures a lot of data. Cant SSH to 22022, get connection refused. Not sure if it will help, but you never know. I figured this out by accident, because I wanted to document my steps. Watch on. tom_l July 13, 2020, 2:24pm #2. Jens. There is an interesting absence of guides available for this. You can set z-wave parameters from within Home Assistant. Click on "Environment" tab. Path to use if your InfuxDB is running behind a reverse proxy. {% else %} So wonder if they just renamed $interval to $__interval. Anyone has a query to delete any/all data and entity itself from influx? With this Grafana is ready to be connected to InfluxDB so that you can start visualizing the data. Grafana "Local Port" defaults to 3000. In the past we could simply select entries and have a graph show up. 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. Defines a template to extract a value from the payload. If you scroll through this, you should see entries that are obviously coming from HomeAssistant. {{ sensor.fibaro_system_fgms001zw5_motion_sensor_battery_level }} Are you an administrative assistant or data entry clerk looking for ways to make extra income remotely from home? 2018-01-24 15:01:23,770 INFO spawned: grafana with pid 1698 In my case I decided to only send data about all of my sensors. I feel like it polls initially and then stops. On the left side of the UI, open the Influx Admin panel and click '+ Create Database' at the top. Exclude all entities matching a listed pattern. Add your timezone in the environment variables, so that you'll have proper timestamps in your database entries. MySQL. Then try and start Grafana manually and see if theres any errors in the console that might lead you to where the problem is. You will be prompted to set a new password. Could be a permissions issue. Click on "Environment" tab. If youre worried, I would suggest taking a backup of your influxdb and grafana mount folders. Others however will report the battery level as an attribute to the entity_id, which makes it hard to read in Grafana/InfluxDB. {% else %} [emailprotected]:~#. Trying to show the volume of my Sonos using singlestat and its working. @trusty That dashboard just looks freaking amazing! The host IP is the IP of the running InfluxDB container. when an entity doesnt have a unit. Under the retention policy setting, you can edit the Duration for which InfluxDB will hold data. By default, no entity will be excluded. Watch on. host: 10.0.0.254 this is the error -p 8086:8086 Paste this into explore the influxdb addon. With so many integrations with the internet of things or IOT devices, a lot of information passes through Home Assistant. One question with the docker image: How do you increase the influcdb connection pool? My battery sensors all of a sudden show N/A% even though my other sensors are still giving data. You can install Grafana on pretty much all platforms manually but I would suggest going with Docker for your smart home server to make all of this more manageable. Remember, you dont need to be running Home Assistant and InfluxDB on the same server, thats just how Ive got it currently set up. This value can have historic data which is written to your HA database (sqlite/mariadb etc..). Sounds like an ever growing pool of data if no retention is set. Include all entities matching a listed pattern. Home Assistant is awesome but it lacks advanced support for showing data, especially over time. Integrating into Home Assistant. If you are operating on data created by the InfluxDB history component, this means by default, you will have a table for each entity and each attribute of each entity (other then unit_of_measurement and any others you promoted to tags). I chose docker/influxdb. Under Options select To the right to move the table inline with the graph. Measurement name to use when the measurement_attr state attribute does not exist, e.g. If you wish, you could continue and select specific sensors or just decide that this is sufficient for the test. The toolbar to add new panels can be found at the top right corner. Click the Edit button to open the graph editor at the bottom of the screen. All indications were good but I am not getting any data from home assistant first I used the loopback address in my YAML file because I am running both home assistant and Influx on the same NAS. 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? unit_of_measurement: '%' If not set, defaults to ns. Great article got this up and running a week ago on my Synology NAS with DSM 6.2 interestingly when I had to restart my Synology it appears to have wiped the influx db (ie the docker container wasnt running, so nothing worked), then when I restarted it there was no home_assistant database. How much light does the living room get in winter months, compared to summer months? Ive tried a few variants of this, including changing the time range or removing it entirely.