Niko Home Control : TypeError: string indices must be integers

[pergolafabio]

Hi, i wanted to try and setup the new platform "Niko Home Control" but i receive the error below whan i start HA

any idea whats wrong?

2018-12-13 14:30:08 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.light] Error while setting up platform niko_home_control
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/helpers/entity_platform.py", line 128, in _async_setup_platform
    SLOW_SETUP_MAX_WAIT, loop=hass.loop)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/asyncio/tasks.py", line 358, in wait_for
    return fut.result()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 56, in run
    result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/components/light/niko_home_control.py", line 44, in setup_platform
    [NikoHomeControlLight(light, hub) for light in hub.list_actions()],
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nikohomecontrol/_init_.py", line 35, in list_actions
    return [Action(action, self) for action in self.list_actions_raw()]
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nikohomecontrol/_init_.py", line 35, in <listcomp>
    return [Action(action, self) for action in self.list_actions_raw()]
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nikohomecontrol/_init.py", line 86, in __init_
    self._id = action['id']
TypeError: string indices must be integers

[cgarwood]

What does your config look like? What version of Home Assistant?

[pergolafabio]

tried it with 82.x 83.x and 84.x
config is quite basic, just like this

light:
  - platform: niko_home_control
    host: 192.168.0.10

[pergolafabio]

also tried manually specifiying port, but didnt help either

also in debug log, i see this :

2018-12-13 14:54:41 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.light] Setting up light.niko_home_control
but then that error afterwards

[pergolafabio]

anyone that can help me with this? what info do you guys need?

[Cire2019]

Hi, i have the same issue. Did you find a way to setup NHC with HA ?

[pergolafabio]

Nope, not working, also opened a thread on forum, but no reply either

[Cire2019]

I have this error in the logs:

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/json/decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
    obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting ',' delimiter: line 1 column 1339 (char 1338)

I looked for the decoder.py but i cannot find the folder python3.6
Same for this file(niko_home_control.py) :
/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/components/light/niko_home_control.py

Do you know how to find them ? Via putty, i dont see them.

[pergolafabio]

i didnt troubleshoot any further
your error is different though?

[pergolafabio]

@Cire2019 @raphk82 , have you ever got this plaform to work?

@legovaer can you help us out?

[Cire2019]

@pergolafabio Unfortunately no.

[pergolafabio]

hmm, how can we proceed with this?

[legovaer]

All, I know there are some issues with the NHC platform. Next week I will be able to spend 3 full days on improving the functionalities.

I will provide additional documentation on setting up NHC with Hass.

In the integration that has been released, theres no active connection to NHC, which makes it kind of useless. Based upon the feedback I received over the weeks, I will be able to fix the majority of the issues by the end of next week.

[pergolafabio]

Ah, thnx for the info, appreciate it

[Cire2019]

Great news. Tell me if I can help by testing.

[raphk82]

@Cire2019 @raphk82 , have you ever got this plaform to work?

@legovaer can you help us out?

No, I just found out that this component exists. I was waiting for this since I got home assistant so I was really surprised when I found it.

But never actually got it to work. Since day one I get the error described above.

[pergolafabio]

It's under investigation ;)

[raphk82]

Yes I see :) Hopefully it will work one day. This component is the one piece missing to make my HA installation perfect.

If there is any need for testing I can also help.

BtW: This error here is different than the one I get (see Issue #20005)

[pergolafabio]

hi @legovaer , any updates on this? :)

[pergolafabio]

hi, when will this component be ready for use?

[Cire2019]

Hello, I don't know if the component have been updated. But i tried it last WE but still the same issue.
I suppose it's not so easy to adapt it .
I think the problem is that i don't only have lights devices defined for the smartphone (in NHC), but also shutters.

[pergolafabio]

Don't think there was an update since release... It's strange they even did release it

[raphk82]

I guess there hasn't been any progress regarding this issue. Just updatet to version 0.89.1 but still get the same error as described in issue #20005

[pergolafabio]

Nope, never worked, seems it was not tested before it get released

[pergolafabio]

Ah ok ;)

[vincentvanneer]

Anyone who's been able to get this to work?

It looks like OpenHAB has a nice binding going on at the moment:
https://www.openhab.org/addons/bindings/nikohomecontrol/

I'm thinking about running OpenHAB on another Raspberry PI and using it as a gateway for Niko Home Control, connecting OpenHAB and Home Assistant through MQTT.

I have it up and running in OpenHAB. Working very well. But since I have my whole configuration in Home Assistant, I would like to use it in Home Assistent directly.

When you got the MQTT working, please let me know. That would be an option as well but the problem is that I'm totally not into MQTT. I don't have any clue on how to use it :-)

Regards

Vincent

[Microfi]

Hi Vincent. Setup in OpenHAB works perfectly fine, indeed. Almost everything was autodetected after installing the OpenHAB binding. The only thing missing were my switched power sockets.

I've quickly tried playing around with MQTT as well and was able to set up a connection to the MQTT broker I've got running in HomeAssistant (Mosquitto): all the MQTT devices I've got set up in there were automatically discovered by OpenHAB, but none of my "things" in OpenHAB get published to the MQTT broker, meaning I can't see/manipulate them in HomeAssistant. Maybe I need to map my "things" to MQTT objects in some way?!

[pergolafabio]

closed => #23093

[pergolafabio]

@NoUseFreak

this was merged in 92.0 ? well we did update, but the same error in log file as in post 1 ?

[pergolafabio]

error from log 👍

2019-04-25 13:03:38 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.light] Error while setting up platform niko_home_control
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/homeassistant/helpers/entity_platform.py", line 126, in _async_setup_platform
    SLOW_SETUP_MAX_WAIT, loop=hass.loop)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/asyncio/tasks.py", line 416, in wait_for
    return fut.result()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/homeassistant/components/niko_home_control/light.py", line 43, in async_setup_platform
    NikoHomeControlLight(light, niko_data) for light in nhc.list_actions()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/nikohomecontrol/nikohomecontrol.py", line 36, in list_actions
    return [Action(action, self) for action in self.list_actions_raw()]
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/nikohomecontrol/nikohomecontrol.py", line 36, in <listcomp>
    return [Action(action, self) for action in self.list_actions_raw()]
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/nikohomecontrol/nikohomecontrol.py", line 77, in _init_
    self._id = action['id']
TypeError: string indices must be integers

[pergolafabio]

if we remove the IP address from config, the error is gone
but how to see lights?

[raphk82]

Anybody got this to work with the new version 0.92.0?

I still get an error:
2019-04-26 22:23:33 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.light] Error while setting up platform niko_home_control Traceback (most recent call last): File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/helpers/entity_platform.py", line 126, in _async_setup_platform SLOW_SETUP_MAX_WAIT, loop=hass.loop) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/tasks.py", line 400, in wait_for return fut.result() File "/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/futures.py", line 293, in result raise self._exception File "/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/tasks.py", line 241, in _step result = coro.throw(exc) File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/components/niko_home_control/light.py", line 37, in async_setup_platform await niko_data.async_update() File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/components/niko_home_control/light.py", line 113, in async_update self._nhc.list_actions_raw) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/futures.py", line 380, in __iter__ yield self # This tells Task to wait for completion. File "/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/tasks.py", line 304, in _wakeup future.result() File "/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/futures.py", line 293, in result raise self._exception File "/usr/lib/python3.5/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 55, in run result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs) File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/nikohomecontrol/nikohomecontrol.py", line 33, in list_actions_raw return self._command('{"cmd":"listactions"}') File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/nikohomecontrol/nikohomecontrol.py", line 51, in _command data = json.loads(self.connection.send(cmd)) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/json/__init__.py", line 312, in loads s.__class__.__name__)) TypeError: the JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'

When I remove the IP address I get an invalid configuration notification even though the host parameter is said to be optional on the component page of the Niko component.

[vincentvanneer]

Hi Raphael

I have the same issue...

Regards

Vincent

[Microfi]

Hi Vincent, Raph, Fabio,

I just upgraded to 0.92.0 as well and my lights are coming up as entities.
I had to specify the IP address of my Niko IP Interface, though. Otherwise I was getting a config error.

I'm currently playing around a bit and a "bug" I've immediately noticed, is that there is a significant delay in the reading of the state (on/off) of my lights. This means that - if you want to change the state in Home Assistant, while the current state hasn't been updated yet - the action will fail.

The lights also seem to only support simple on/off state changes. No dimming.

[pergolafabio]

Yes, state is not implemented yet, will be better in newer release, this version was just a bugfix...
Strange that it works on your end...

[Microfi]

Are you not even seeing the entities coming up, after changing configuration?
Have you specified the IP address of the Niko IP Interface and performed a restart of Home Assistant?

[pergolafabio]

Yes , well Vincent did, I don't have Niko, just helping... Tried with and without ip address and offcourse restarted Hassio, still the same error as in first post

[Microfi]

I just found out some of my lights are NOT detected after all.
Will try to find out what the difference is in my Home Control config and will report back ...

[NoUseFreak]

@pergolafabio It was indeed merged into 0.92.0

@Microfi I am aware of the delays of the states. Can you verify the missing lights are dimmable? These are expected not to work as NHC1 does not support these. They also don't show up in the Official NHC app.

[NoUseFreak]

@raphk82 Can you verify your installation is v1, I'm unable to reproduce your error?

[Microfi]

@Microfi I am aware of the delays of the states. Can you verify the missing lights are dimmable? These are expected not to work as NHC1 does not support these. They also don't show up in the Official NHC app.

You're absolutely correct. They don't show up in the app either.
I don't remember this always being the case, though ... or am I incorrect?

Do you know whether there is some kind of workaround to get them integrated anyway?
I see that the people at OpenHAB have been able to integrate dimmers as well: https://www.openhab.org/v2.2/addons/bindings/nikohomecontrol/

[pergolafabio]

But what about the error as in 1st post? What could it be?

[raphk82]

@raphk82 Can you verify your installation is v1, I'm unable to reproduce your error?

@NoUseFreak : Yes according to my iOs app I'm running version 1.10.0.34209 of Niko Home Control and API 1.19.

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[NoUseFreak]

@legovaer Did you have any luck reproducing this issue. From the error, it seems the action is decoded as a string instead of a list. I'm unable to get this in my current setup.

For reference, I only use lights and switches.

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