home-automation-configs

There's really nothing here anymore, sorry! You can see what used to be here in this commit. What used to be here was a collection of configuration and notes about my ZoneMinder, HomeAssistant / AppDaemon, and related MicroPython ESP32/8266 code. It's all gone now:

• HomeAssistant - I started over from scratch in late 2023, and decided to go the recommended route and configure as much as possible via the UI. Therefore I barely have any configuration files to share anymore. All of my HomeAssistant configs are automatically backed up, and I'm just not concerned with committing the auto-generated configs to git anymore.
  • I'd previously also been using HomeAssistant as a kludgey home alarm system, with some ZWave and ZigBee sensors. In late 2023 I moved into a house that has an actual wired alarm system, so that whole use case is gone.
• AppDaemon - The Automations feature of HASS has gotten good enough that so far I haven't had the need for custom code.
• wemos_d1_mini (ESP32 / ESP8266 MicroPython code) - I replaced these former thousands of lines of custom MicroPython code with ESPHome and some relatively small YAML config files. Couldn't be happier.
• ZoneMinder - Previously I had a pile of custom code that was doing object detection and notifications for ZoneMinder. I've now just switched to using the vanilla upstream object detection and notification code in ZMES / MLapi.

HomeAssistant Notes

• ESPHome "BlueTooth" (BLE) proxy debugging:ca
  • On the ESP side, DEBUG level logging is useless. VERBOSE level will give you messages like: [07:03:35][V][esp32_ble:314]: (BLE) gap_event_handler - 3 [07:03:35][V][bluetooth_proxy:058]: Proxying 1 packets To see the actual details on the ESP side, your only option is to set the VERY_VERBOSE log level. If you have other things running on the same ESP, like I2C, you may want to quiet them down by setting tag-specific log levels. Unfortunately (and very counter-intuitively, IMO), ESPHome doesn't let you set the log level for a single tag lower than the global level... so you can't really get detailed logs for a single tag, you need to get them for everything, and then if needed silence everything you don't want. Ugh.
  • On the HomeAssistant side, we can luckily set a tag-specific logging level via a service call. By default, the global logger is configured for warning level. We can enable debug-level logging for BLE with this service call: service: logger.set_level data: bleak_esphome: debug govee_ble: debug inkbird: debug bluetooth: debug bluetooth_adapters: debug bluetooth_le_tracker: debug bluetooth_tracker: debug habluetooth: debug esphome: debug homeassistant.components.bluetooth: debug Note that the really important one here is homeassistant.components.bluetooth which will give us the actual BLE data.