Community Hass.io Add-ons: AppDaemon2

Python Apps and HADashboard for Home Assistant

Note: This addon runs AppDaemon 2.x, which is deprecated. We strongly suggest installing or upgrading to the AppDaemon3 add-on.

About

AppDaemon is a loosely coupled, multithreaded, sandboxed python execution environment for writing automation apps for Home Assistant home automation software. It also provides a configurable dashboard (HADashboard) suitable for wall mounted tablets.

Installation

The installation of this add-on is pretty straightforward and not different in comparison to installing any other Hass.io add-on.

1. Add our Hass.io add-ons repository to your Hass.io instance.
2. Install the "AppDaemon" add-on.
3. Start the "AppDaemon" add-on
4. Check the logs of the "AppDaemon" add-on to see if everything went well.

NOTE: Do not add this repository to Hass.io, please use: https://github.com/hassio-addons/repository.

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Configuration

Note: Remember to restart the add-on when the configuration is changed.

Example add-on configuration:

{
  "log_level": "info",
  "commtype": "websockets"
}

Note: This is just an example, don't copy and past it! Create your own!

Option: log_level

The log_level option controls the level of log output by the addon and can be changed to be more or less verbose, which might be useful when you are dealing with an unknown issue. Possible values are:

• trace: Show every detail, like all called internal functions.
• debug: Shows detailed debug information.
• info: Normal (usually) interesting events.
• warning: Exceptional occurrences that are not errors.
• error: Runtime errors that do not require immediate action.
• fatal: Something went terribly wrong. Add-on becomes unusable.

Please note that each level automatically includes log messages from a more severe level, e.g., debug also shows info messages. By default, the log_level is set to info, which is the recommended setting unless you are troubleshooting.

These log level also affects the log levels of the AppDaemon.

Option: commtype

The add-on (and thus AppDaemon) supports two different methods to communicate with your Home Assistant instance. The commtype option allows you to control which method the AppDaemon will be using. The following methods can be used:

• websockets this is the current default an prefered method.
• sse is an older method that uses HTTP streaming.

Some people reported having issues with websockets when using DuckDNS and Let's Encrypt, in that case setting the commtype to sse might be an option.

Option: system_packages

Allows you to specify additional Alpine packages to be installed to your AppDaemon setup (e.g., g++. make, ffmpeg).

Note: Adding many packages will result in a longer start-up time for the add-on.

Option: python_packages

Allows you to specify additional Python packages to be installed to your AppDaemon setup (e.g., PyMySQL. Requests, Pillow).

Note: Adding many packages will result in a longer start-up time for the add-on.

AppDaemon and HADashboard configuration

This add-on does not configure the AppDaemon or HADashboard for you. It does, however, create some sample files to get you started on the first run.

The configuration of the AppDaemon can be found in the /config/appdaemon directory.

For more information about configuring AppDaemon, please refer to the extensive documentation they offer:

http://appdaemon.readthedocs.io/en/2.1.12/

Changelog & Releases

This repository keeps a change log. The format of the log is based on Keep a Changelog.

Releases are based on Semantic Versioning, and use the format of MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH. In a nutshell, the version will be incremented based on the following:

• MAJOR: Incompatible or major changes.
• MINOR: Backwards-compatible new features and enhancements.
• PATCH: Backwards-compatible bugfixes and package updates.

Support

Got questions?

You have several options to get them answered:

• The Home Assistant Community Forum, we have a dedicated topic on that forum regarding this add-on.
• The Home Assistant Discord Chat Server for general Home Assistant discussions and questions.
• Join the Reddit subreddit in /r/homeassistant

You could also open an issue here GitHub.

Contributing

This is an active open-source project. We are always open to people who want to use the code or contribute to it.

We have set up a separate document containing our contribution guidelines.

Thank you for being involved! 😍

Authors & contributors

The original setup of this repository is by Franck Nijhof.

For a full list of all authors and contributors, check the contributor's page.

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License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2017 Franck Nijhof

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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