Steam Wishlist for Home Assistant

A custom component that keeps track of when games on your Steam wishlist are on sale. This component uses the config flow and can easily be configured via the Integrations section in the UI.

Pre-Installation

Prior to installing this integration you must first ensure that your wishlist is publicly viewable. To do this, login to you steam account and edit your profile. Under the Privacy Settings tab, set Game Details to Public. Without this step, this integration will not be able to parse your wishlist.

HACS Installation

1. Search for Steam Wishlist under the Integrations tab on HACS.
2. Install the integration.
3. In the home assistant configuration screen click on Integrations.
4. Click on the + icon to add a new integration.
5. Search for Steam Wishlist and select it.
6. Enter your steam account name and click Submit.

Manual Installation

1. Download the latest release.
2. Extract the files and move the steam_wishlist folder into the path to your custom_components. e.g. /config/custom_components.
3. In the home assistant configuration screen click on Integrations.
4. Click on the + icon to add a new integration.
5. Search for Steam Wishlist and select it.
6. Enter your steam account name and click Submit.

Sensors

After you successfully setup the integration a number of sensors will be created.

sensor.steam_wishlist_<your-profile-id>

This sensor will report the number of games on sale from your wishlist.

Attributes

The following state attributes are available for this sensor:

attribute	description
on_sale	An array of games on sale.

binary_sensor.steam_wishlist_<title>

A binary sensor will be created for each game on your wishlist. It's state will indicate if it is on sale or not.

Attributes

The following state attributes are available for this sensor:

attribute	description
title	Title of the game
rating	Reviews e.g. Reviews: 92% (Very Positive)
price	Price description of game
genres	Genres of game e.g. FPS, Action, First-Person
release	Release date of game
airdate	Date game was released (Unix timestamp format)
normal_price	Price
percent_off	Percentage off of the normal price
review_desc	Review description
reviews_percent	Percentage of positive reviews
reviews_total	Total number of reviews
sale_price	Sale price of the game
steam_id	Steam ID of the game
box_art_url	URL for the background 16:9 aspect ratio image
fanart	URL for the background 16:9 aspect ratio image
poster	URL for the background 3:4 image
deep_link	Clickable hyperlink to game on Steam website

Displaying in Lovelace

You are able to use any Home Assistant card to display a list of your games that are on sale by utilizing the sensor.steam_wishlist sensor. Below, are 2 cards that fully support this integration and its sensor attributes:

I. upcoming-media-card

You can use upcoming-media-card to display your Steam wishlist items that are on sale. You can also toggle displaying your non-sale wishlist items via the YAML setting collapse: price=🎫 (along with enabling the Options integration setting) like so:

Example YAML:

- type: custom:upcoming-media-card
  entity: sensor.steam_wishlist_978793482343112
  title: Steam Wishlist
  image_style: fanart
  collapse: price=🎫
  max: 10

Enable the Steam Wishlist integration setting below:

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II. nintendo-wishlist-card

You can use nintendo-wishlist-card to display your Steam wishlist items that are on sale. This is possible since I also maintain the nintendo-wishlist integration. You can add this card to Lovelace like so:

Example YAML:

- type: custom:nintendo-wishlist-card
  entity: sensor.steam_wishlist_978793482343112
  title: Steam Wishlist
  image_style: backgroundart
  max: 10