Recent content by grantlewis

I’ve experienced the same a few times in the last several months, Pete. Never any indication of why, just a brief disconnection and then a reconnection. At first I thought that perhaps the OLB addon was crashing/reloading and so went back to my initial config, running the server on a separate...

@rsw686 Just a quick post to say "thanks." I started with OLB running on Windows a couple of years back. That setup worked well, but I eventually decided to consolidate and move to a Docker container running on the same machine as Home Assistant. As you know, though, Home Assistant gets cranky...

Yep, I've had this happen, too. For different reasons, but I know exactly what you're talking about. Proceed with the following steps c-a-r-e-f-u-l-l-y.   First create a Full Snapshot of your system. I'd suggest that you save a copy to another computer or to a cloud service, etc.   In the root...

Is this what you mean?Go to Developer Tools | States to find the name of the entity you want to control. Click the clipboard icon to the left of the entity's name to copy it to the clipboard. On the Overview page, click the three dots at the top right of the screen and select Edit Dashboard...

@ihf, looks like @rsw686 is providing you with better info than I would have been able to do.

(Apolgies if the above is off-base. I assumed you were having an issue with .yaml.)

If you're new to .yaml I'd suggest starting off with something simple that's easy to see the result of immediately. For instance, try turning on light B when light A turns on.   - alias: Light Test initial_state: on trigger: - platform: state entity_id: light.blue_office_lamp...

Thanks, Ryan! Up and running without a hitch. Really appreciate your continued work!  

No guesses.

I don't have anything like that configured on my system and have no guess whether there's an "out of the box" solution available. I could cobble something together, but it'd be mighty convoluted. It'd look something like this: 1, Create two flags on the Omni to track, maybe something like...

Congrats!   <I guess I add a card and select the device?>   Yep, pretty much. HA's user interface is called lovelace and is pretty easy to work with. Click the three vertical dots in the upper right of the HA window, choose to Edit the Dashboard, and then add cards. The Entity card is probably...

You definitely need to set up a username and password for the Mosquitto broker.   Click Supervisor in Home Assistant's left menu. To the right, click Mosquitto broker. In the top menu of choices, click Configuration. I believe a template is provided. Alter what's there to create a username and...

Here's a redacted version of my OmniLinkBridge.ini file that may help: https://www.dropbox.com/s/seegh9dgpq9nw2s/sample_olb.ini?dl=0

Hi, IHF. Did you see the information in the link I referred you to? Long story short: OLB sends MQTT messages from OmniLink to Home Assistant. In order for Home Assistant to understand those messages and send messages back to OLB, it needs an MQTT broker. Although you don't have to use the...

I run both HA and OLB in Docker containers.