[Introduction] Dahut

[dahut]

Hello, I’m finally introducing myself.
I’ve been looking at Gladys as a home automation system for a while because I even tried it, if I remember correctly, a little after the integration of Node-RED, but at the time I didn’t have all the features I was looking for.
Then, I don’t know why, wanting to understand Docker a bit, I tried installing containers with Gladys and of course Node-RED.
And for the past two weeks, I’ve been using it every day.

So that’s why I’m here right now.

In terms of my previous setup, I was on Domoticz + Node-RED.
In that I had integrated my Logitech Harmony Hub, 1 Z-Wave module for a two-way switch (I picked that one to keep the physical buttons), and 2 other Z-Wave sensors. (Luckily there were big promotions at that time). The management of the shutters via HTTP on an Arduino Mega and a few ESPs here and there via MQTT.

For the move to Gladys, I didn’t struggle too much except for starting the Hub because I route everything via MQTT which sends the information to Node-RED and has it do the work to change activities, the volume of devices, or the channel change.
For Z-Wave, I kept some of them under Domoticz; I use them via the JSON API or to pick up a state change via MQTT.

Apart from that, I’ll probably have a few small questions about one or two features, because I can’t get them to work properly or I haven’t understood them 100%.

Thanks in any case for this great project.

[VonOx]

Welcome dahut don’t hesitate to ask your questions.

[pierre-gilles]

Hi @dahut and welcome! Don’t hesitate to ask if you have any questions

If, on the other hand, you want to explain your experience, we have a « tutorials » category on the forum if you want to help others do the same setup!

[dahut]

Thank you very much @pierre-gilles @VonOx

I don’t know if I can ask questions directly here; otherwise I’ll delete or move them.

For the first one, it’s mostly a detail: when creating dashboards, I created a list for the Harmony hub activities and it doesn’t sort in the order I placed them.
It seems to me that the buttons are placed in the order of creation in the MQTT integration.

Maybe it’s intentional or I’m the one who didn’t understand.

And for the second one, when I make an HTTP POST request, I send a state or a value.
Like this

I get the following response:

I haven’t found a way to put the value in the right place.
It’s probably a very trivial little problem.

Thanks in advance for your answers

[GBoulvin]

Hi!
I don’t have all the answers but for this question :

@dahut

this one doesn’t sort in the order in which I placed them.

There is a feature request you can vote for:

Pouvoir changer l'ordre d'affichage des appareils dans une box

Je m’explique: Lors de la création d’une box pour afficher les appareils d’une pièce, on ajoute des devices les uns après les autres. Mais lors de la sauvegarde l’affichage change l’ordre. Souhait lors de la création de la box: [Capture 5] Affichage de la box: [Capture 6] Retour de l’édition de la box: [Capture 7]

[dahut]

Hi
Thank you very much for your response

[pierre-gilles]

@dahut

I couldn’t find a way to put the value in the right place.
It’s probably a very simple little problem.

You’re not sending a correct JSON; you need to add braces and quotes in the right places, for example:

[dahut]

Thank you for your clear, concise, and precise response.
That will be very helpful to me.

I started writing a tutorial for setting up the Harmony Hub, it’s not really easy but extremely rewarding.
I asked my mother to be the guinea pig when it’s finished.