Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support • Hacker News Board

Re: Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support

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Post by robalfonso » Fri, Jul 09, 2021, 1:47 PM UTC

etedor wrote: post #54

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Of course not. Now there's a third way - Blueprints. I've bitched about HA before and won't rehash all of it. The project requires a lot of time investment and the devs care mainly about playing with the latest tooling. From introducing and sunsetting a major installation method in the span of ~4 years to dropping Python 3.7 despite it not being EOL until 2023, I don't have time or patience to relearn everything with…

I’ve been increasingly annoyed by the forced migrations from yaml-configured components to the terrible integration system and have started thinking about alternatives. Can you expand on your move to Hubitat? How’s the support for non-native integrations?

Hubitat user here as well, It's ugly but has been pretty solid for me. It's definitely punching above it's weight class in terms of what it cost. Hubitat has a groovy ide so you can write your own integration if necessary and the community is pretty good, I've rarely found something that doesn't already have an integration.

Re: Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support

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Post by Abishek_Muthian » Fri, Jul 09, 2021, 5:54 PM UTC

tams wrote: post #59

e_proxus wrote: post #57

Tangentially related: I frequently start long-running shell commands and go make a coffee. Is there an easy way to send a notification from my Mac to my iPhone? You would think it would be a use case for Automator or Shortcuts but I don’t think it’s possible? There are various apps that can do this but everyone I’ve found is very enterprise oriented and fairly expensive. I just want to send local network notification…

I use Pushover [1] for this use case. Since it's a stateless HTTP request, Shortcuts can also use it natively. Is not enterprisey, the personal version is a one-time purchase. [1] https://pushover.net/

I second Pushover.

During first wave of the pandemic the leading online grocery company in my country started slot system which opened at random times and people had to spend sleepless nights trying to see if the slot opens.

I wrote a script to automate[1] this and used Pushover for notification. It was used my many and so I guess they might have gained several new customers.

[1] https://abishekmuthian.com/bigbasket-slot-alert/

Re: Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support

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Post by ArchOversight » Fri, Jul 09, 2021, 6:57 PM UTC

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Once the Linux on M1 becomes available you could run it that way. Right now the issue is that Home Assistant relies on being on the same network (bridged into the container) as the rest of your devices so it can see the broadcasted messages from IoT devices.

I'm running HA inside docker with two networks: one macvlan-based, which is connected to iot-VLAN host interface. Here, HA can talk to devices (this adapter is set in Settings | General | Network Adapters for the broadcast). The other is bridge (docker net driver one, not linux one) - i.e. it is in it's private, host-only subnet and a reverse proxy running on a host publishes the web app for the users on the main LAN…

Sure, and that works great when you are using Linux to run Docker as you have full control over the networking. For docker on macOS as the OP is using, you only get a single network, and it is an emulated one using vpnkit into the VM. You can't attach a network adapter directly to the VM, which means the docker containers running inside the VM can't see the IoT devices.

Re: Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support

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Post by lostlogin » Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 12:59 AM UTC

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This doesn’t seem like a likely problem. However moving my install off a Synology and into a vm on a nuc (keeping it in docker) made a massive difference to response times and performance. It’s hard to beat the combo of more ram, more cpu and nvme.

Which Synology model did you move it off

918+. It’s a good unit but I’ve moved to a 1819+ to get more bays, 10gbe and lots of ECC.

Re: Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support

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Post by lostlogin » Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 1:01 AM UTC

vetinari wrote: post #63

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This doesn’t seem like a likely problem. However moving my install off a Synology and into a vm on a nuc (keeping it in docker) made a massive difference to response times and performance. It’s hard to beat the combo of more ram, more cpu and nvme.

I'm running two instances, one on Synology+Docker, other on Odroid (N2+, config like the HA-edition, minus the nice case). I don't really see any performance issue with Synology (Avoton with 16 GB RAM), just the `docker-compose up` takes a few seconds. Response time-wise, it is fine. Plus, I'm using the Synology reverse proxy, so that one takes care of a few things too. Of course, Core-i5/i7 will beat Atom-based NAS;…

Getting it into docker-compose is incredible. I wish you could handle the config files better but it’s very satisfying having it all up in seconds.

Re: Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support

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Post by ramraj07 » Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 1:47 AM UTC

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The easiest might be via slack. Dead simple to write some python with their library, and you can set up a free account for yourself.

He probably wants a notification. I have my Slack notifications off, so I am not constantly interrupted when not in front of a computer. I do however leave things like iMessage and HomeKit to ping me.

Well, you can create your own slack domain, but yeah I don’t remember if you can configure notifications for each account separately.

Re: Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support

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Post by jhugo » Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 1:35 PM UTC

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I also wish there was an option for people wanting to have a bit more control or fit it more tidily into an existing home stack. I hacked my own container image so that I could run it in my home k8s, but it wasn't easy — there are lots of undocumented dependencies, and there's no clear separation of state and config. It has by far the untidiest architecture of all the software I run on my home servers. Once it's up a…

What did you need to do to the Docker image to make it run in k8s? I'm using the stock image on k8s just fine.

The stock image does all sorts of horrible things like modifying its own configuration at runtime and installing a variety of Python packages into attached volumes.

So yes, you can "run" the stock image on k8s, if you abandon most of the advantages of deploying a container in the first place, but if you want to deploy it the way you would normally deploy a container, with the dependencies packaged into the image before it launches and tidily separated config & state, and have it behave predictably in future rather than just like a miniature pet server that needs care & attention, you have a little work to do.

Re: Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support

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Post by ingenium » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 7:37 PM UTC

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Very handy considering myself (and most people I know) have their HA+devices setup with as local-only. I don’t want my home automation connected to the internet at all, but I still want notifications if my kids room temps dropped too low or my garage door opens in the middle of the night.

You can add some protection by putting it behind a reverse proxy like HAProxy or nginx. It's mostly security through obscurity, but in this case it helps a lot unless you're being specifically targeted by someone.

Basically pick a subdomain on a domain you own and have that and only that forward to HA. So the only way to connect to the HA instance from the internet is to know the exact subdomain you've picked for it. Set the proxy to not pass any port 443 traffic unless the subdomain matches one that you've set.

Re: Home Assistant iOS app adds local push notification support

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Post by milleramp » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 10:39 PM UTC

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I would not recommend ecobee, it does not allow you to apply simple actions you may want to do. For example, using HA I am monitoring co2 in the bedroom, if the level rises above 1000ppm I wanted to turn on house fan until level reaches a value. You cannot simply turn central house fan on/off at will, you can only apply a hourly duty cycle controlled by ecobee. I wish I would have purchased a thermostat with basic ap…

Do you have a one hour hold duration configured within your ecobee? I have a Home Assistant switch entity that turns the ecobee furnace fan “on”. Turning the switch off returns the ecobee to “auto”, or it will do so on its own after the two hour hold duration I have set in my ecobee. I believe you could accomplish what you want by setting your hold duration to “until I change it”.

Thanks for the info, I will give that a shot.