Heya everyone - I’m having a lot of trouble. I tried posting this before, but it’s been almost 5 days and no one has reached out to me with any advice, so I thought I’d try again. I was recommended to home assistant green by an engineer I work with. I have a snake, and I have a Herpstat 2 Spyderweb thermostat and two Govee Bluetooth hygrometers that I’d like to get set up but I can’t for my life figure it out. I want to remote monitor, but I need to get them set up first. I thought I was at least on the right track with locating Govee in the app, but it tells me there’s no Bluetooth devices found so I’m extremely stuck. Can anyone walk me through setting these up and be willing to help when I inevitably hit another wall? I’d really appreciate it!
#Govee and Herpstat
royal granite
green willow
do you have a bluetooth adapter for your green? or have a bluetooth proxy set up for it to use?
royal granite
do you have a bluetooth adapter for your green? or have a bluetooth proxy set up...
I wasn’t told anything about a Bluetooth adapter. To be honest, I also don’t know what a proxy is. I’m really tech stupid. I don’t think this guy that told me about the device realized I’m nowhere near his intelligence level with this stuff.
green willow
I wasn’t told anything about a Bluetooth adapter. To be honest, I also don’t kno...
alright you seem a little lost (and that's okay)
so your engineer friend has somewhat thrown you in at the deep end and I recon your best bet is to drag them over and get them to help and teach whilst you provide beverages...
in the mean time maybe watch a few beginner youtube videos on home assistant and find out what you have gotten yourself into.
the green is an excellent device, specially for starting out. so don't feel bad about getting it. you just need to learn a bit. and also see if it picks anything else up on your network.
failing luring friend with beverages. people here are always happy to help but you should probably try and learn the basics so you know "what to ask" if that makes sense
to answer the actual questions about the particular devices:
for the goove hydrometers you can check compatable device models here - https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/govee_ble/
however you will need to add bluetooth functionality to your green otherwise it wont be able to talk to the devices. this can be done with a usb bluetooth adapter directly on the green or by another device that can act as a go between (proxy) but that is more complicated so an adapter is probably the better option.
for the herpstat is seems that whilst there is no direct integration someone managed to get the data using rest api - https://community.home-assistant.io/t/herpstat-spyderweb-sensors/741172
royal granite
alright you seem a little lost (and that's okay)
so your engineer friend has som...
Yeah, I’m not sure he realized how unsavvy I am with this stuff. I think a little lost is an understatement. Lol. The only reason I wanted it was so I could remote monitor my snake enclosure while I’m away from home because I’m a paranoid noodle mom.
Thankfully the Govee model is compatible. I suppose purchasing a Bluetooth adapter will be the best bet for that. Do you have a recommendation on one that’s good quality?
I did stumble upon that herpstat forum post as well and was able to get to where it talked about entering the code into the configuration and hit a block. I think I’ll need to persuade my coworker to come help me.
Thank you for the help.
green willow
remote access will be another bridge to cross but that can wait for now.
i have no experience with usb bluetooth adapters myself. you could ask in #1284966353798697001 with the recomendations tab. however i dont think it will be a huge issue no matter what you get.
what i would think of is:
get something with an actual antenna rather then the tiny things
dont get anything too "cheap and nasty"
most adapters should work wtih the green out the box. just plug in and load the bluetooth integration
something i tell all beginners: take it slowly and enjoy the small wins and they will turn into big wins. if you try and do too much too quickly you will miss out on the fun and feel like you will never get to the end
royal granite
remote access will be another bridge to cross but that can wait for now.
i have...
Do you have any recommendations on a convenient and simple Bluetooth adapter? I saw the list of them on HA website, but there’s so many. I’d like to get my hands on one as soon as I can.
green willow
sorry I don't have any recommendations. and it might depend also on where you are as to availability. i havent used any usb bluetooth adapters for many years. can get something from the known working list and you should be okay
royal granite
Gotcha. I looked one up on Amazon but they don’t sell it anymore. They do have one by the same brand that seems it might be an upgraded version.
Avantree BTDG-40S is what was listed on the HA site.
Avantree BTDG-45 is on Amazon and is what comes up first when I search for the former. I’m just hesitant to purchase unless I know it’ll work. Thankfully it’s only $10 so I guess if it doesn’t work then it’s not a huge deal.
royal granite
Gotcha. I looked one up on Amazon but they don’t sell it anymore. They do have o...
@green willow
green willow
it will probably be fine and as you said its cheap
royal granite
it will probably be fine and as you said its cheap
I think I’ll give it a go and see what happens.
royal granite
@green willow Do you know anything about editing of the code for the Herpstat that was in the blog post you linked me to? I’ve changed a few things within it to see if it helps, such as adding the nickname, and inputting the IP address but I still can’t seem to see it.
The Govee’s are successfully set up!!
green willow
<@354452014068924428> Do you know anything about editing of the code for the Her...
ill have a go... i havent used it so its hard to klnow what to suggest but from what i can see you should only have to change the {YOUR_HERPSTAT_IP_HERE} to your devices local static ip address.
you should not change the stuff like ['nickname'] as they are fixed names of variables on the device and are not inputs
some devices require you to switch on "local controll" so maybe thats part of it?
what happeneeds if you visit http://x.x.x.x/RAWSTATUS in a browser on your network?
royal granite
ill have a go... i havent used it so its hard to klnow what to suggest but from ...
I’ll change the nickname part back. Let me take a look at the url. One moment!
royal granite
ill have a go... i havent used it so its hard to klnow what to suggest but from ...
The URL came up with a few lines of code.
Ah! Is that what I need to paste in there? Not necessarily the generic from the blog post?
green willow
no
what you see in the browser is what the code is pulling when you change
resource: "http://{YOUR_HERPSTAT_IP_HERE}/RAWSTATUS"
to
resource: "http://x.x.x.x/RAWSTATUS"
the rest of the code is it analysing the data that comes in (which is what you see in the browser)
i just asked if you could see it in the browser becaue that makes sure its actually accessible
- resource: "http://{YOUR_HERPSTAT_IP_HERE}/RAWSTATUS"
is the only line you should have to change
royal granite
@green willow Hmm. I still don’t see it showing up on integrations or entities at all. Strange
green willow
have you restarted home assistant since adding the stuff to configuration.yaml?
then in the dev tools on the states tab you could search for "herpstat" and see if there are any entities showing up
royal granite
@green willow I believe it’s been restarted. Let me do that now and take a look.
Yes, I restarted and went under the devices and services tab but I don’t see it.
green willow
if you go the the entiies tab at the top of that and filter by herpstat is anything found?
royal granite
if you go the the entiies tab at the top of that and filter by herpstat is anyth...
Sadly, no.
green willow
can you paste your configuration.yaml file here?
royal granite
can you paste your configuration.yaml file here?
When I get home from work today and can jump on my laptop, yes. It won’t let me copy it from my phone.
royal granite
@green willow Shit, I completely forgot to do this for you. I’m sorry! It was a very long day. I’ll try and grab it tomorrow!
royal granite
@green willow Here is the code pasted over. If you can't see it, let me know. This was how it defaulted when I pasted it. The code does start at line 2. I'm not sure if that makes a difference or not.
green willow
change
resource: "http://{10.0.0.168}/RAWSTATUS"
to
resource: "http://10.0.0.168/RAWSTATUS"
royal granite
@green willow oh my god thank you so much!! I can’t believe that was the issue!
green willow
nice, sometimes its hard to see when you don't know what you don't know
royal granite
Yes! Now just to figure out how to add it to my dashboard for the enclosure and I’ll be good to go!
green willow
making dashboard that look nice is an entirly different kettle of fish 🙂
royal granite
@green willow Oh yeah I’m sure. I don’t need it to look super fancy. I have it created already and have my govee’s on it. I’m just not sure if I can add the Herpstat because it’s running as an entity not as a device 🤔
But I did just google it and think I found the answer. I’ll give it a go and see!
green willow
<@354452014068924428> Oh yeah I’m sure. I don’t need it to look super fancy. I h...
you will just have to manually create the card instead of uising the automatic "add to dashboard" button
royal granite
you will just have to manually create the card instead of uising the automatic "...
Gotcha! I’ll have to give that a try tomorrow or over the weekend!
green willow
good luck with it. you will be totally hooked in no time