Palgate Home Assistant integration

Unofficial integration, use at your own risk!

Extracting the token

You will need to run the following commands on your Home Assistant server using the Advanced SSH & Web Terminal addon to extract your Palgate session token:

# Allow executing the script
chmod +x /config/custom_components/palgate/generate_linked_device_session_token.sh

# Run the script
/config/custom_components/palgate/generate_linked_device_session_token.sh

Installation

1. Ensure that HACS is installed
2. Add this repository as a custom repository
3. Search for and install the "Palgate" integration
4. Restart Home Assistant
5. Configure the Palgate integration

Configuration

1. Device ID - This is your physical Palgate device ID, can be obtained from the settings page of each gate in the Palgate app
2. Phone Number - This is the phone number registered on Palgate (e.g.: 972505555555)
3. Token - The session token obtained as explained above, via the Link Device button in the Palgate app
4. Linked Device Number - This should either be 1 or 2, depending on whether you have another device linked (other than HA) to your Palgate account

Advanced Configuration

1. Time (sec) gate takes to open - The time it takes for the gate to open in seconds
2. Time (sec) gate remains open - The time the gate remains open in seconds
3. Time (sec) gate takes to close - The time it takes for the gate to close in seconds
4. Allow triggering gate while opening, to invert direction - If enabled, the gate can be triggered while opening to invert the direction

Features

Cover

• Open
• Custom open/close timouts

Notes

• Palgate's API does not report the position of the gate

Credits

• sindrebroch - Original creator
• DonutByte - Python implementation with an updated time-sensitive token generator
• doron1 - Implemented support for time-sensitive tokens