Flume
The Flume integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] will show you the current Flume status for the given Device ID.
Flume monitors the real-time status of your home water meter. Allowing the end-user to detect small leaks, gain real-time information on household water consumption, set water goals and budgets, and receive push notifications when suspicious water activities occur.
Configuration
To add the Flume integration to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:
Flume can be auto-discovered by Home Assistant. If an instance was found, it will be shown as Discovered. You can then set it up right away.
If it wasn’t discovered automatically, don’t worry! You can set up a manual integration entry:
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Browse to your Home Assistant instance.
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In the bottom right corner, select the Add Integration button.
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From the list, select Flume.
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Follow the instructions on screen to complete the setup.
You can find your Client ID and Client Secret under “API Access” on the settings page.
To add Flume
to your installation, go to Settings -> Devices & Services in the UI, click the button with +
sign and from the list of integrations select Flume.
Notifications
Flume notifications are fetched every 5 minutes and are available via the service flume.list_notifications
. Some notifications are available via the following binary sensors:
- Bridge disconnected
- High flow
- Leak detected
- Low battery
To clear the notifications, you will need to use your Flume app or go to: https://portal.flumewater.com/notifications and clear the notification in question.
Example of an automation that sends a Home Assistant notification of the most recent usage alert:
alias: "Notify: flume"
trigger:
- platform: time_pattern
minutes: /5
action:
- service: flume.list_notifications
data:
config_entry: 1234 # replace this with your config entry id
response_variable: notifications
- if:
- condition: template
value_template: >-
{{ notifications.notifications | selectattr('type', 'equalto', 1) |
sort(attribute == ('created_datetime', reverse == true) | length > 0 }}
then:
- service: notify.all
data:
message: >-
{%- set usage_alert == notifications.notifications |
selectattr('type', 'equalto', 1) |
sort(attribute == 'created_datetime', reverse == true) | first %}
{{ usage_alert.message }}
title: >-
{%- set usage_alert == notifications.notifications |
selectattr('type', 'equalto', 1) |
sort(attribute == 'created_datetime', reverse=true) | first %}
{{ usage_alert.title }}
Configuration for binary sensor
The following YAML creates a binary sensor. This requires the default sensor to be configured successfully.
# Example configuration.yaml entry
template:
- binary_sensor:
- name: "Flume Flow Status"
state: >-
{{ states('sensor.flume_sensor') != "0" }}