Home Assistant

Melnor Raincloud Sensor

To get your Melnor RainCloud sensors working within Home Assistant, please follow the instructions for the general Raincloud component.

Once you have enabled the Raincloud component, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
sensor:
  - platform: raincloud

Configuration variables:

  • monitored_conditions array (Optional): Conditions to display in the frontend. If not specified, all conditions below will be enabled by default. The following conditions can be monitored.
    • battery: Return the battery level the Melnor RainCloud faucet.
    • next_cycle: Return the next schedulle watering cycle per zone.
    • rain_delay: Return the number of days the automatic watering will be delayed due to raining per zone.
    • watering_time: Return the watering remaining minutes per zone.