Home Assistant

Melnor Raincloud Switch

To get your Melnor RainCloud binary 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
switch:
  - platform: raincloud

Configuration variables:

  • watering_minutes (Optional): Value in minutes to watering your garden via frontend. Defaults to 15.
  • 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.
    • auto_watering: Toggle the watering scheduled per zone.
    • manual_watering: Toggle manually the watering per zone. It will inherent the value in minutes specified on the RainCloud hub component.