Flume
The flume sensor 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
Adding Flume to your Home Assistant instance can be done via the user interface, by using this My button:
Flume can be auto-discovered by Home Assistant. If an instance was found, it will be shown as “Discovered”, which you can select to set it up right away.
If there wasn’t any 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 sidebar click on Settings.
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From the configuration menu select: Devices & Services.
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In the bottom right, click on the Add Integration button.
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From the list, search and select “Flume”.
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Follow the instruction on screen to complete the set up.
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 available via binary sensors. 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.
The following notifications are supported:
- Bridge disconnected
- High flow
- Leak detected
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" }}