Home Assistant Query

Questions
#1

Hi, I currently use home assistant to access some devices that do not have native home remote integrations. I also use a number of input Boolean values in Home Assistant to track device status across multiple remotes.

I’ve loaded up a project that has been in use for a around a year and working fine, where things get strange is that I’ve loaded it onto a new laptop to make some changes and everything works until I run synchronise devices in the designer. As soon as I do this device states will not synchronise and when trying to set anything from the project running on designer or the app I receive an error which states “Input string was not in a correct format” however nothing has been changed in the project?

Has anyone else experienced this behaviour and has any suggestions?

#2

You are using the latest Designer version, correct? Designer version 4.5.0.0 is currently the latest.

If you have remote access enabled I can try & troubleshoot if you want. You can email your project to support@thehomeremote.com

#3

Hi Bill, thanks for the offer of help. I’ve emailed a copy of the project over to you, I also checked and all the apps both designer and apps on iPad and Android and they are all the latest versions. The same error occurs in both the design simulator and the apps as well.

#4

Thanks! Can you point me to a few boolean devices that are no longer working? I don’t need all of them, just a few.

#5

I can’t connect. Are you able generate a temporary login for me?

#6

Hi Bill, I’ve just sent you some more info including a temporary login. In terms of devices not working it is specifically the input booleans that I created to track what devices are in use and on across the house. It stops someone accidentally changing what you are watching as I have a HDMI matrix for the whole house.

Let me know if you need any more info, if needed I can set up a dedicated chat for us?

#7

I found & fixed the issue on my dev machine. Fix will be in the next release. For the time being, either don’t do a sync or delete your Weather entities after you do a sync. Those must be sorta new to your setup. They are what’s breaking things for you. It’s having issues parsing the state data for these device objects.

Specifically, it’s the wind_bearing property that is breaking this. The Home Remote currently assumes it to be a float value however your entities are using a string. According to the docs this can either be a float or a string. I don’t know if this was always the case. When I originally wrote the integration I think this property was strictly a float value. Either way, the next release will handle both data types.

#8

Thanks for the help Bill. They are a fairly recent addition to my home assistant set up. I’ll not do a sync then until the new release is out.

Once again thanks for your help.

#9

Hi Bill, I was just wondering when the next update was planned for? I just want to put a note in my calendar to go back and add the items I wanted to add to my remote.

#10

I’m not sure. There were a few other updates I wanted to include in this release. I may try to do an earlier release that includes just this fix. Guessing there may be a few others that have encountered this error as well.