Nothing beats fresh tomatoes and cucumbers from a garden. But the challenge is ensuring your veggies get just the right amount of water when you have zero control over the rain. You could use a cloud-based rain gauge for this, but if you want the most accurate sensor you are going to need to get local.
So in this video we are going to add an Acurite Rain Gauge to Home Assistant, and setup an automation to remind us to water when the garden needs it. So stick around, because we are going to automate some boring stuff.
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7 Comments
Nice use of Utility meter! Will definitely use this when I finally decide to integrate my LaCross WS.
Cool Jeff, could you not use a sonoff RF brigde?
Will this work with the weather stations aswell or not?
Having issues with this. Out of no where my rain totals will jump to large numbers. I thought it might be the retain setting so I turned it off but it is still happening. Any clue as to why?
You moving away from packages in Home Assistant? Would be interested in hearing more about why you went with them and why to are going away from them. Also what does it take to switch. I tried moving some existing automations to a package and found the move painful and ended up doing some manual editing of Home Assistant configuration files. (I have may have done this the wrong way.) As soon as I couldn't see the traces I moved them back. Like the idea of packages since I like the idea of grouping related items together but like traces even more. I also couldn't find a way of moving templates to a package.
Curious, still using this? Any updates?
thanks for learning me the utility_meter, was setting up a TFA Dostman DROP and only got the totals working.