Homeassistant with SignalK on BBN OS

[mgrouch]

Here is how you can integrate
Homeassistant with SignalK on your boat
on BBN OS

https://github.com/bareboat-necessities/my-bareboat/blob/master/docs/bareboat-os.adoc#1451-homeassistant-with-signalk

BBN OS comes with Homeassistant included. You just need to activate it following Getting Started Guide.

Enable "Signal K - MQTT Home Assistant Bridge" plugin in SignalK (with run local server option, port 2883)

In Home assistant add MQTT integration Broker: lysmarine Port: 2883 Subscribe Topic:

+/+/#

Edit

/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/configuration.yaml

mqtt: # SignalK MQTT HA Bridge
  # https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/core/entity/sensor/
  sensor:
    - name: "Wind App Speed"
      unique_id: "speedApparent"
      #device_class: "wind_speed"
      state_topic: "vessels/self/environment/wind/speedApparent"
      unit_of_measurement: "kn"
      value_template: "{{ value_json * 1.9438452 }}"

    - name: "Wind App Angle"
      unique_id: "angleApparent"
      state_topic: "vessels/self/environment/wind/angleApparent"
      unit_of_measurement: "deg"
      value_template: "{{ value_json * 180 / 3.14159265359 }}"

Edit Dashboard, Click "Add Card" and you can select to draw gauges, meters, chart, etc views for your sensors

[mgrouch]

For more homeassistant videos check

https://www.youtube.com/@SmartBoatInnovations/videos

[mgrouch]

Related discussion:

SignalK/signalk-server#1374

[PtJudeRI]

THis is great. I was just about to write a note on this topic. I am looking at having this system as my backup nav setup, and run HomeAssistant for "Smart Boat" needs. SignalK would be great to add in for location and data feeds, both across BBN as well as in HomeAssistant.

[mgrouch]

There is NMEA 2000 integration for HomeAssistant available now

NMEA 2000 Wireless and USB Integrations for Home Assistant

For more information, visit GitHub pages

For Wireless via an ESP32:

https://github.com/SmartBoatInnovations/ha-smart2000esp

For USB:

https://github.com/SmartBoatInnovations/ha-smart2000usb

And an instruction video to go with it. https://youtu.be/t1qDKVBHRrs

[mgrouch]

Latest BBN OS 2024-04-20 FULL now includes these NMEA 2000 integrations as well as NMEA 0183 TCP. Run the homeassistant-install.sh from add-ons reboot once after configuration of HomeAssistant is complete and you will be able to find these integrations in Settings/Add Integration in HomeAssistant web UI.