[RELEASE] WaterGuru Pool Integration

[brianwilson]

This should be considered beta, but it does get information about your pool. It currently requires a python flask app be running on your network to connect to the AWS Lambda endpoint (which requires Cognito + AWS4 auth calls). If you can figure out how to do this in native Hubitat calls, I look forward to the pull requests It's currently limited to 2 polls per day natively, but you can be creative on how you refresh the data should you need it more often.

hubitat/WaterGuru at master · bdwilson/hubitat

This should also be installable via HPM.

(Yes, my pool was out of wack because we were gone for a week).

And notifications via my nodered flow

[gavincampbell]

This product looks very interesting and affordable.

And the integration add more value to it. How do you like it?

[brianwilson]

I’ll tell you in a week or so. I hooked it up long enough to get an account and to capture the API calls then went on vacation; I also had to wait for the square cover adapter. The way I look at it I get daily samples for $50 a pool season (6 months - 3 pack of cartridges is $50 and each lasts 2 months). I can know before lunch if I need to adjust something or go buy something, and if I do need to buy something, I’ll take a sample. I’m hoping flow rate can tell me if the skimmer is full (I.e while on vacation, I can know when to tell the neighbor to come over). A $50/yr cartridge “subscription” is the sweet spot for it to be worth my time/effort to have a gadget give me more visibility into my pool.

[gavincampbell]

The price does look good. Of course they don't ship to Canada..

Honestly, this may be one of those devices that I don't even need to connect. Its good on its own.

[jasondevlin05]

Any update on this? Still working? How has it been?

[brianwilson]

I only had 1 month to run it before we closed the pool, so I can't comment on viability and accuracy. It was pretty close to being accurate in the month we had it. It looks like my integration will still work when I open in April.

[jasondevlin05]

@brianwilson

I'm somewhat tech savvy, how hard is this to install, and it's it still working without issue?

[brianwilson]

If you can start a docker container, it should work withour issue. I don't use this anymore as i get the notifications from their app. I haven't had a use case to need it for tying to other automations, but as you can see apparently I need a reminder to add chlorine.