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Ken Wiens

Lives in: Calgary, Alberta, CA
Using: SPRITE-6
Growing: Kentucky Bluegrass, Blue Spruce

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Alexa skill with multiple Netro controllers?

48
James Nyazai
Updated at 2018-08-29 21:13:54 UTC
Topic: Connected Home
I have 2 Netro controllers named Front Yard and Back Yard. Alexa can water the Back Yard just fine by specifying a zone and a time to water for. But how do I switch controllers so Alexa will water zones on the Front Yard controller?

Home Assistant

18
David
Updated at 2019-07-06 09:33:48 UTC
Topic: Connected Home

Good morning, it would be interesting to have the ability to connect via home assistant

Also there is news for google home in Italian? 

Thank you 

Feature Request: API

7
cjmulk2
Updated at 2019-08-17 03:18:34 UTC
Topic: Connected Home
Would it be possible to publish your API? I (and I'm guessing many others) would like to be able to integrate Netro into tools like Home Assistant

Home Assistant Integration

15
Giabbino
Updated at 2020-08-03 12:35:09 UTC
Topic: Connected Home

Hi, I'm a new user of Netro and for the moment I find it very functional. But it would be very convenient to have the integration for Home Assistant, a very popular open source home automation management platform.


Thanks

Lorenzo

Meaningful integration to any home automation platform

50
Jens Wymeersch
Updated at 2020-11-17 13:25:17 UTC
Topic: Connected Home

Dear,


I've now integrated Netro with amazon, google and IFTTT. None of these integrations are meaningful. I don't want to use a smart speaker to control the Netro devices. The weather and the plant types define my watering schedules, they don't need my voice.

What i'm looking for is the data collected from the Whisperer, watering schedules (past, present and future) and the health of the devices (offline/online, battery, etc.). 

My main home automation platform is Home Assistant and it would be great if we would have a Netro plugin to this system like you see with Rachio (https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/rachio/).


Thank you so much,

Regards,
Jens

Netro and Home Assistant

50
Jens Wymeersch
Updated at 2021-07-28 18:18:16 UTC
Topic: Connected Home

Although that I'm still hoping Netro will start understanding their appliance/app is only a smart part of a smart home ecosystem and start integrating with Home Assistant. Even huge vendors like Tuya, have understood that this is essential for most Home Automation Enthusiast. 

For the time being, some folks have used the API to get some data to home assistant https://community.home-assistant.io/t/netro-integration/51012/13


I believe a lot of us are happy with the appliance, but aren't looking at it often enough. Result in my case at least that my whisperer was out for more than a month. This could have been avoided if we had an integration to Home Assistant who would have alerted me.

So please Netro, do the extra mile !

Home Assistant

50
Jens Wymeersch
Updated at 2023-01-12 09:25:04 UTC
Topic: Connected Home

Hello,


I see in this community a lot of request to get a meaningful integration with one of the major hubs on the Market. 

Looking at the integration with amazon, google can't be described as meaningful. For example, I'm not interested to command the water of the lawn via voice. I expect that Netro knows when to water and when not. What is interesting is to get a notification is somethings wrong. 

For example, the app tells that the sprite has watered the lawn but the whisperer indicates that the ground is dry. Another example would be that there are problems with the whisperer.


Hence I'm wondering when we can expect an integration to for example home assistant.