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AquaCell

AquaCell is a water-softening device. The AquaCell integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] allows you to monitor your AquaCell device in Home Assistant. You will need your Aquacell account information as used in the AquaCell app.

This integration also supports Harvey softeners.

Supported devices

This integration only works for softener models which have an i-Lid and are configured through the ‘Mijn AquaCell’ or ‘My Harvey’ mobile app. These models are also recognizable by the required curved salt blocks.

Prerequisites

The softener needs to be set up with the official app before being able to integrate it in Home Assistant.

Configuration

To add the AquaCell device to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:

Manual configuration steps

If the above My button doesn’t work, you can also perform the following steps manually:

  • Browse to your Home Assistant instance.

  • Go to Settings > Devices & Services.

  • In the bottom right corner, select the Add Integration button.

  • From the list, select AquaCell.

  • Follow the instructions on screen to complete the setup.

Email address

The email address used to log in to the mobile app used to monitor the softener.

Password

The password used to log in to the mobile app used to monitor the softener.

Sensors

This integration provides sensorsSensors return information about a thing, for instance the level of water in a tank. [Learn more] for the following information from the softener device:

  • Percentage of salt remaining.
  • Time remaining until 0% salt level is reached.
  • i-Lid battery level.
  • Wi-Fi signal strength.

Use cases

The integration provides sensors to monitor the salt level of the softener. You can use this information to create automations, for example, to notify you when the salt level is low and a refill is needed.

You can also easily plot the history of the salt level sensors over time, which can give you more insight into usage.

Examples

The following examples show how to use this integration in Home Assistant automations.

Send notification when salt is running out

The following example sends a notification to your mobile device when the salt is running out on either side.

automation:
  - alias: "Notify when salt is running low"
    triggers:
      - trigger: numeric_state
        entity_id:
          - sensor.my_softener_salt_left_side_percentage
          - sensor.my_softener_salt_right_side_percentage
        below: 10

    actions:
      - action: notify.mobile_app_your_device
        data:
          title: "Softener is almost out of salt"
          message: > 
            Place new salt blocks in the softener.

Data updates

The device does not update frequently, the integration is pollingData polling is the process of querying a device or service at regular intervals to check for updates or retrieve data. By defining a custom polling interval, you can control how frequently your system checks for new data, which can help optimize performance and reduce unnecessary network traffic. [Learn more] new data every day from the cloud.

Known limitations

There are no known limitations for this integration.

Troubleshooting

There are no commonly known issues with this integration.

Remove integration

This integration follows standard integration removal, no extra steps are required.

To remove an integration instance from Home Assistant

  1. Go to Settings > Devices & services and select the integration card.
  2. From the list of devices, select the integration instance you want to remove.
  3. Next to the entry, select the three-dot menu. Then, select Delete.