psychrocam - A flask API for serving psychrochart SVG files like a webcam

Description

Psychrocam is a flask-celery-redis backend to create SVG psychrometric charts and overlay information from Home Assistant temperature and humidity sensors. The main objective is to create a fake 'webcam' to add it as a Home Assistant generic camera, showing the psychrometric state in real-time.

This little project consist in 2 docker containers running:

• A Redis database.
• The main container, running supervisor to execute:
  • A celery worker
  • The celery beat, sending update tasks every scan_interval seconds
  • Gunicorn serving the flask application

Use with docker

The quickest way to get things running, just git clone this repository and run . run_compose.sh (notice the space between . and the script name, needed to preserve the exports).

You can edit that script to change the environment variables needed to run the container, or export them and run manually:

export PORT=7777
export LOGGING_LEVEL=WARNING
export LOGGING_LEVEL_CELERY_WORKER=WARNING
export LOGGING_LEVEL_CELERY_BEAT=WARNING
export GUNICORN_NUM_WORKERS=2
export CELERY_NUM_WORKERS=2
export REDIS_PWD="customultrasecurepassword"

export CUSTOM_PATH="./custom_config"

# Use one or the other depending on your host architecture:
# export LABEL=x64
export LABEL=rpi3

# Pull the container from docker hub:
docker pull azogue/psychrocam:${LABEL}
docker-compose up -d

# Or build it
docker-compose up -d --build

Customize

To get access to HomeAssistant and its sensors you need to write your own custom_config/custom_ha_sensors.yaml, with this schema:

homeassistant:
  api_password: yourultrasecurehapassword
  host: 192.168.1.33
  port: 8123
  use_ssl: False

history:
  delta_arrows: 10800  # seconds (:= 3h)
  scan_interval: 30

location:
  altitude: 7
  # Optional pressure sensor to adapt atmospheric pressure:
  pressure_sensor: sensor.pressure_mb

# Interior sensor pairs
interior:
  Office:
    humidity: sensor.sensor_office_humidity
    style:
      alpha: 0.9
      color: '#8FBB46'
      markersize: 12
    temperature: sensor.sensor_office_temperature
  Living room:
    humidity: sensor.sensor_livingroom_humidity
    style:
      alpha: 0.9
      color: darkorange
      markersize: 12
    temperature: sensor.sensor_livingroom_temperature

# Exterior sensor pairs
exterior:
  Terraza:
    humidity: sensor.sensor_terraza_humidity
    style:
      alpha: 0.7
      color: '#5882FB'
      markersize: 12
    temperature: sensor.sensor_terraza_temperature
  Predicted:
    temperature: sensor.dark_sky_temperature
    humidity: sensor.dark_sky_humidity
    style:
      alpha: 0.6
      color: '#7996BB'
      markersize: 7

And go to host:7777/svgchart to show the last SVG psychrometric chart, or check /ha_states, /ha_config and /chartconfig.

Home Assistant integration

To see your psychrometric data in Home Assistant, add this generic camera:

homeassistant:
  customize:
    camera.psychrometric_chart:
      friendly_name: Diagrama psicrométrico

camera:
  - platform: generic
    name: psychrometric_chart
    still_image_url: http://192.168.1.33:7777/svgchart
    content_type: 'image/svg+xml'

You can add extra sensors to HA based on the evolution of watched states, that are present in other routes of this API (this is a work in progress).

In /ha_evolution you can access this JSON data:

{
  "Office": {
    "first": {
      "HR [%]": 42.2,
      "T [°C]": 25.6,
      "ts": "2018-06-21T07:11:19.575077",
      "∆HR [%]": -0.2,
      "∆T [°C/h]": 0.766,
      "∆T [°C]": 2.3,
      "∆t [min]": 180.2
    },
    "last": {
      "HR [%]": 40.8,
      "T [°C]": 26.1
    },
    "mid": {
      "HR [%]": 40.8,
      "T [°C]": 26.1,
      "ts": "2018-06-21T08:41:06.489618",
      "∆HR [%]": 1.2,
      "∆T [°C/h]": 1.195,
      "∆T [°C]": 1.8,
      "∆t [min]": 90.4
    }
  },
  ... ,
  "Terraza": {
    "first": {
      "HR [%]": 41.8,
      "T [°C]": 26.9,
      "ts": "2018-06-21T07:11:31.281293",
      "∆HR [%]": -0.7,
      "∆T [°C/h]": 1.001,
      "∆T [°C]": 3.0,
      "∆t [min]": 179.9
    },
    "last": {
      "HR [%]": 24.3,
      "T [°C]": 37.1
    },
    "mid": {
      "HR [%]": 24.3,
      "T [°C]": 37.1,
      "ts": "2018-06-21T08:41:24.038771",
      "∆HR [%]": 16.8,
      "∆T [°C/h]": -4.8,
      "∆T [°C]": -7.2,
      "∆t [min]": 90.0
    }
  },
  "num_points": 720,
  "pressure_kPa": 101.71
}

An example of integration would be adding some sensors showing the temperature rate change (to use them in automations). This can be done with a REST sensor and some template sensors exploiting its attributes:

homeassistant:
  customize:
    sensor.psychrometric_evolution:
      hidden: True
  customize_glob:
    sensor.temp_change_*:
      icon: mdi:delta

sensor:
  - platform: rest
    name: psychrometric_evolution
    resource: http://192.168.1.33:7777/ha_evolution
    unit_of_measurement: "sample"
    json_attributes:
      - pressure_kPa
      - Office
      - Salón
      - Terraza
    scan_interval: 30
    value_template: '{{ value_json.num_points | int }}'

  - platform: template
    sensors:
      temp_change_office:
        friendly_name: '∆T Office'
        value_template: '{% if "Office" in states.sensor.psychrometric_evolution.attributes %}{{ states.sensor.psychrometric_evolution.attributes["Office"]["first"]["∆T [°C/h]"] | round(2)  }}{% endif %}'
        unit_of_measurement: '°C/h'
      temp_change_livingroom:
        friendly_name: '∆T Salón'
        value_template: '{% if "Salón" in states.sensor.psychrometric_evolution.attributes %}{{ states.sensor.psychrometric_evolution.attributes["Salón"]["first"]["∆T [°C/h]"] | round(2) }}{% endif %}'
        unit_of_measurement: '°C/h'
      temp_change_terraza:
        friendly_name: '∆T Terraza'
        value_template: '{% if "Terraza" in states.sensor.psychrometric_evolution.attributes %}{{ states.sensor.psychrometric_evolution.attributes["Terraza"]["first"]["∆T [°C/h]"] | round(2) }}{% endif %}'
        unit_of_measurement: '°C/h'

TODO

• Change the way it access to the Home Assistant event stream.
• Convert this in a HASS.io addon or a HA component
• Use a better UI in HA (Lovelace future?)
• Use sun position and orientations to predict irradiation power (ASHRAE clear sky model) for windows and walls and publish new HA sensors